Communicated on 24 January 2019

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 25832/18 Erikas NAVICKAS and Edita NAVICKIENE against Lithuania lodged on 23 May 2018

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns the inability of remand detainees to obtain long-stay family visits. The first applicant, Mr Erikas Navickas , was detained on remand from 14 March 2012 to 30 April 2015. On 28 January 2015 a court allowed a request by the second applicant, Ms Edita Navickienė , who is the first applicant ’ s wife, for a two-day visit of the first applicant, but the prison administration refused to grant them such a visit. The applicants were not given any long-stay visits until the first applicant ’ s release .

QUESTION tO THE PARTIES

Has th ere been a violation of Article 8 of the Convention, taken alone and in conjunction with Article 14, in view of the fact that the applicants were unable to obtain long-stay family visits in detention from 28 January 2015 to 30 April 2015 (see Varnas v. Lithuania , no. 42615/06, §§ 108-23, 9 July 2013; Costel Gaciu v. Romania , no. 39633/10 , §§ 50-51 and 60, 23 June 2015; and Andrey Smirnov v. Russia , no. 43149/10 , § § 47-48, 13 February 2018 )?