Resolution CM/ Res DH ( 2020 ) 205

Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

Three cases against Russian Federation

(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 1 October 2020

at the 1383 rd meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)

Application No.

Case

Judgment of

Final on

30155/05+

VERESHCHAGIN AND OTHERS

14/06/2018

14/06/2018

21440/13+

POKUSIN AND OTHERS

04/10/2018

04/10/2018

15918/13+

SHULMIN AND OTHERS

17/07/2018

03/12/2018

The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”,

Having regard to the final judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in these cases and to the violations established on account of confinement in metal cages in the courtrooms, inadequate conditions of detention during transport lack of visits during pre-trial detention and excessive length of pre-trial detention and of judicial review of detention;

Recalling the respondent State’s obligation, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by all final judgments in cases to which it has been a party and that this obligation entails, over and above the payment of any sums awarded by the Court, the adoption by the authorities of the respondent State, where required:

- of individual measures to put an end to violations established and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum ; and

- of general measures preventing similar violations;

Having invited the government of the respondent State to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with the above-mentioned obligation;

Having examined the information provided by the government in respect of the individual measures including as regards the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court;

Considering that the question of individual measures has been resolved, given that the criminal proceedings against the applicants have ended and they are no longer subjected to confinement in metal cages and inhuman transport conditions;

Recalling that the question of the general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in the present judgments continues to be examined within the framework of the Svinarenko and Slyadnev group (Application No. 32541/08) and that the closure of these cases therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures in this group;

Recalling also that the general measures required in response to the other violations found in one of these cases are or were examined by the Committee in the Klyakhin , Vlasov and Guliyev groups;

DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases as regards the individual measures and

DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.