SECOND SECTION

CASE OF CHASHCHUKHIN AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA

(Applications nos. 11590/17 and 48 others –

see appended list)

JUDGMENT

STRASBOURG

2 November 2023

This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision.

In the case of Chashchukhin and Others v. Russia,

The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

Lorraine Schembri Orland , President , Frédéric Krenc, Davor Derenčinović , judges ,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having deliberated in private on 12 October 2023,

Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:

PROCEDURE

1. The case originated in applications against Russia lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) on the various dates indicated in the appended table.

2. The Russian Government (“the Government”) were given notice of the applications.

THE FACTS

3. The list of applicants and the relevant details of the applications are set out in the appended table.

4. The applicants complained about their confinement in a metal cage in the courtroom during the criminal proceedings against them. Some applicants also raised other complaints under the provisions of the Convention.

THE LAW

5. Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single judgment.

6. The Court observes that the facts giving rise to the alleged violations of the Convention occurred prior to 16 September 2022, the date on which the Russian Federation ceased to be a party to the Convention. The Court therefore decides that it has jurisdiction to examine the present applications (see Fedotova and Others v. Russia [GC], nos. 40792/10 and 2 others, §§ 68 ‑ 73, 17 January 2023).

7. Mr Goncharov (application no. 62933/19) complained that the conditions of his post-conviction detention in 2019-2021 were in breach of Articles 3 and 13 of the Convention. Having examined the materials before it, the Court is of the view that there is no longer any justification for examining these complaints for the reasons set out below.

8. The Court notes that, as matters stand, the material facts complained of by the applicant have ceased to exist. He is no longer detained in the conditions complained of. It further notes that it was open to the applicant to make resort to a new compensatory remedy, introduced by the Russian Federation on 27 January 2020, in respect of his complaints (see Shmelev and Others v. Russia ((dec.), nos. 41743/17 and 16 others, 17 March 2020).

9. Regard being had to its findings in Shmelev and Others (cited above) that the said remedy presents, in principle, an adequate and effective avenue for redress and offers reasonable prospects of success (ibid., § 54), the Court considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of this part of the application (Article 37 § 1 (c) of the Convention) and that respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto does not require it to continue the examination of those complaints under Article 37 § 1 in fine .

10. Accordingly, this part of application no. 62933/19 should be struck out of the list (see Astafyev and Others v. Russia [Committee], nos. 31652/17 and 19 other applications, 19 January 2023).

11. The applicants complained about their confinement in a metal cage in the courtroom during the criminal proceedings against them. They relied on Article 3 of the Convention, which reads as follows:

“No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

12. Some applicants also complained that they had not been afforded an effective domestic remedy in respect of their grievances under Article 3, contrary to Article 13 of the Convention, reading as follows:

“Everyone whose rights and freedoms as set forth in [the] Convention are violated shall have an effective remedy before a national authority notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity.”

13. The Court notes that the applicants were kept in a metal cage in the courtroom in the context of their trial. In the leading cases of Svinarenko and Slyadnev v. Russia [GC], nos. 32541/08 and 43441/08, ECHR 2014 (extracts) and Vorontsov and Others v. Russia, nos. 59655/14 and 2 others, 31 January 2017, the Court already dealt with the issue of the use of metal cages in courtrooms and found that such a practice constituted in itself an affront to human dignity and amounted to degrading treatment prohibited by Article 3 of the Convention.

14. Having examined all the material submitted to it, the Court has not found any fact or argument capable of persuading it to reach a different conclusion on the admissibility and merits of these complaints. Having regard to its case-law on the subject, the Court considers that in the instant case the applicants’ confinement in a metal cage before the court during the criminal proceedings against them amounted to degrading treatment.

15. These complaints are therefore admissible and disclose a breach of Article 3 of the Convention.

16. Having regard to the above finding, the Court does not consider it necessary to deal separately with the applicants’ complaints under Article 13 of the Convention (see Valyuzhenich v. Russia , no. 10597/13, § 27, 26 March 2019).

17. Some applicants submitted other complaints which also raised issues under the Convention, given the relevant well-established case-law of the Court (see the appended table). These complaints are not manifestly ill ‑ founded within the meaning of Article 35 § 3 (a) of the Convention, nor are they inadmissible on any other ground. Accordingly, they must be declared admissible. Having examined all the material before it, the Court concludes that they also disclose violations of the Convention in the light of its well-established case-law (see Idalov v. Russia [GC], no. 5826/03, §§ 103 ‑ 08 and 152-58, 22 May 2012, concerning conditions of detention during transport; Tomov and Others v. Russia , nos. 18255/10 and 5 others, §§ 92-156, 9 April 2019, regarding the lack of an effective remedy in respect of the complaint about conditions of detention during transport; Andrey Smirnov v. Russia, no. 43149/10, 13 February 2018, concerning restrictions in connection with family visits for prisoners; and Gorlov and Others v. Russia , nos. 27057/06 and 2 others, 2 July 2019, concerning permanent video surveillance of detainees and the lack of an effective remedy in that respect).

18. Article 41 of the Convention provides:

“If the Court finds that there has been a violation of the Convention or the Protocols thereto, and if the internal law of the High Contracting Party concerned allows only partial reparation to be made, the Court shall, if necessary, afford just satisfaction to the injured party.”

19. Regard being had to the documents in its possession and to its case ‑ law (see, in particular, Vorontsov and Others, cited above), as well as considering previous awards made by the Court to some of the applicants, it finds it reasonable to award the sums indicated in the appended table.

FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT, UNANIMOUSLY,

(a) that the respondent State is to pay the applicants, within three months, the amounts indicated in the appended table, to be converted into the currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable at the date of settlement;

(b) that from the expiry of the above-mentioned three months until settlement simple interest shall be payable on the above amounts at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points.

Done in English, and notified in writing on 2 November 2023, pursuant to Rule 77 §§ 2 and 3 of the Rules of Court.

Viktoriya Maradudina Lorraine Schembri Orland Acting Deputy Registrar President

APPENDIX

List of applications raising complaints under Article 3 of the Convention

(use of metal cages and/or other security arrangements in courtrooms)

No.

Application no.

Date of introduction

Applicant’s name

Year of birth

Name of the court

Date of the relevant judgment

Other complaints under

well-established case-law

Amount awarded for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses per applicant

(in euros) [1]

11590/17

19/01/2017

Oleg Leonidovich CHASHCHUKHIN

1976Leninskiy District Court of Magnitogorsk of the Chelyabinsk Region, Video link from SIZO-2, Chelyabinsk region

25/07/2016

7,500

12248/17

07/06/2017

Andrey Olegovich MALYUGIN

1984St Petersburg City Court (by means of video link, from a remand prison)

19/01/2017

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of transport;

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - overcrowding during his numerous transfers between the detention facilities and the courthouse in a van, single occupancy compartment, with no more than 0.3 sq. m of personal space at all times; from 30/04/2013 to 19/05/2017; transfers lasted from 40 minutes to 3 hours

8,500

56218/17

18/07/2017

Artem Konstantinovich ZAKURNAYEV

1991Norilsk Town Court of the Krasnoyarsk Region (in the courthouse);

Krasnoyarsk Regional Court

video link from SIZO-4, Norilsk

04/04/2017

7,500

58355/17

28/07/2017

Maksim Sergeyevich BELYKH

1981Buzulukskiy District Court of the Orenburg Region and the Orenburg Regional Court (by way of video conference)

21/04/2017

7,500

5179/18

16/12/2017

Dmitriy Ivanovich LYSAKOVSKIY

1979Meshchanskiy District Court and the Chertanovskiy District Court of Moscow; confinement to a metal cage in a video link room of a remand prison during hearings in the Moscow City Court

07/11/2019

7,500

7505/18

17/01/2018

Andrey Vasilyevich SEMAYEV

1988Nizhnekamsk Town Court

26/07/2017

7,500

13269/18

01/02/2018

Timur Olegovich YURTAYEV

1984Vorkuta Town Court.

In a courtroom

Supreme Court of the Komi Republic;

Video link

27/10/2017

7,500

13297/18

15/02/2018

Sergey Olegovich BIBIK

1986Krasnoyarsk Regional Court;

video link from SIZO-1, Krasnoyarsk Region

31/10/2017

7,500

16104/18

17/03/2018

Elgudzha Pantikovich DZHUMUTIYA

1965Oktyabrskiy/Kuybyshevskiy District Court of St Petersburg

Since 26/09/2017 - on-going placement in a metal cage on the date when the application was lodged with the Court

7,500

37157/18

16/07/2018

Igor Aleksandrovich SOKOLOVSKIY

1983Khanty-Mansiyskiy District Court of the Khanty-Mansi Region - Yugra

26/04/2018

7,500

43902/18

03/09/2018

Sergey Nikolayevich KALININ

1971Ivdelskiy District Court of Sverdlovsk Region via videoconference from IK-6, the Khabarovsk Region;

Vakhitovskiy District Court of Kazan via videoconference from IK-6, the Khabarovsk Region

31/03/2021

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - train, 11/03/2018-26/03/2018, 0.8 sq. m per inmate, passive smoking, lack of fresh air, lack of or poor quality of bedding and bed linen, lack of or insufficient natural light, lack of or insufficient electric light, inadequate temperature, lack of privacy for toilet,

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of permanent video surveillance in detention facilities, restrictions during short-term visits, and in respect of inadequate conditions of detention during transport,

Art. 8 (1) - permanent video surveillance of detainees in pre-trial or post-conviction detention facilities - IK-6 Khabarovsk Region since 26/04/2018 and on-going on the date when the application was lodged:

opposite-sex operators video surveillance in a lavatory and/or shower room,

Art. 8 (1) - lack of practical opportunities for or restriction on prison visits - IK-6 Khabarovsk Region, physical separation and supervision during short-term family visits, last short-term visit with the applicant’s wife on 29/04/2021, repetitive refusals to remove physical separation.

9,750

43998/18

10/09/2018

Igor Valeryevich KOROLEV

1975Ust-Vymskiy District Court, Supreme Court of the Komi Republic

26/03/2018

7,500

44585/18

31/08/2018

Aleksandr Luisovich KONDRATYEV

1992Lefortovskiy District Court of Moscow; Moscow City Court

01/03/2018

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport – transport by van on a large number of occasions, in the period from 04/04/2015 to 28/03/2018, 0.3 sq. m of personal space, 3.5-hour long transfers;

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of transport

8,500

45824/18

03/09/2018

Yegor Vyacheslavovich SAFONOV

1991Novosibirskiy District Court of the Novosibirsk Region; Novosibirsk Regional Court.

Video link from SIZO-1, Novosibirsk

06/04/2018

7,500

51691/18

11/10/2018

Andrey Valeryevich AKIMOV

1991Sverdlovskiy District Court and Leninskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Regional Court

Video link from SIZO-1 Krasnoyarsk

20/01/2022

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of transport;

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport –

(1) train, 01/10/2018-02/10/2018, lack of fresh air, inadequate temperature, no or restricted access to potable water, overcrowding, no or restricted access to toilet;

(2) multiple transfers: van (2 hours; 1.5 hours, 3.5 hours), train (15 hours and 11 hours), transit cell (9 hours) 20/04/2019 - 25/04/2019, 0.2 sq. m, lack of fresh air, inadequate temperature, no or restricted access to potable water, overcrowding, no or restricted access to toilet;

(3) van, train, 11/05/2019-20/05/2019, insufficient number of sleeping places, lack of fresh air, no or restricted access to toilet, overcrowding, passive smoking, poor quality of potable water.

8,500

52646/18

29/10/2018

Valeriy Anatolyevich KOZHIKHOV

1965Kirov Regional Court

since 12/07/2018 - on-going placement in a metal cage on the date when the application was lodged with the Court

7,500

3329/19

17/12/2018

Dmitriy Eduardovich MALTSEV

1994Leninskiy District Court of Tyumen, Tyumen Region Court

09/10/2018

7,500

12307/19

13/02/2019

Dmitriy Sergeyevich SHTIN

1988Oktyabrskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk

28/08/2018

7,500

13112/19

19/02/2019

Liana Mikhaylovna RAZUVAYEVA

1989Nefteyuganskiy District Court of the Khanty-Mansi Region - Yugra

02/11/2018

7,500

16190/19

28/10/2019

Rustam Aleksandrovich GOREYEV

1975Tsentralnyy District Court of Krasnoyarsk

24/07/2019

7,500

17507/19

20/11/2019

Aleksey Valentinovich ALEKSEYEV

1969Zheleznodorozhnyy District Court of Krasnoyarsk

19/08/2019

7,500

20432/19

02/04/2019

Aleksandr Vadimovich SOBOL

1975Meshchanskiy District Court of Moscow

02/10/2018

7,500

22698/19

03/04/2019

Daniil Sergeyevich SHUBKOV

1997Nikolskiy District Court of the Vologda Region

22/10/2018

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - numerous occasions of transport since 16/03/2018, with the most recent on 21/01/2019; van in a single occupancy compartment; 0.2-0.3 sq. m of personal space; insufficient natural light, lack of fresh air, restricted or no access to toilet, no access to food and potable water;

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of transport

8,500

30896/19

27/05/2019

Pavel Aleksandrovich SERGUN

1993Supreme Court of the Komi Republic, Ukhta Town Court of the Komi Republic

12/03/2019

7,500

32869/19

10/06/2019

Amir Shamilevich BAYAZITOV

1975Sovetskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk

04/04/2019

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention during transport

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - inadequate conditions of transport in a van with numerous occasions of transport to take part in investigative actions and court hearings between 24/11/2016 - 04/04/2019 with less than 0.2 m² per inmate, passive smoking, overcrowding, lack of fresh air, inadequate temperature

8,500

37687/19

23/12/2019

Platon Mikhaylovich DURMANOV

1986Petrodvortsoviy District Court of St Petersburg, St Petersburg City Court

04/08/2020

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - transport by train and detention in transit cells between

1) 30/09/2019 and 17/04/2020; less than 1 sq. m of personal space; lack of or insufficient natural light, lack of or insufficient electric light, lack of fresh air, inadequate temperature, lack of or inadequate hygienic facilities, passive smoking, overcrowding, lack of privacy for toilet, applicant transported on numerous occasions;

2) 17/04/2020 to 12/08/2020, van, transit cell – overcrowding,

0.2-0.9 sq. m of personal space, lack of fresh air, lack of or insufficient natural light, no or restricted access to toilet, lack of privacy for toilet, no or restricted access to potable water, lack or insufficient quantity of food,

3) 12/08/2020 to 17/09/2020, train, van, 0.2 sq. m, overcrowding, passive smoking, lack of fresh air, lack of or insufficient natural light, lack or insufficient quantity of food, no or restricted access to toilet, lack of privacy for toilet,

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention during transport

8,500

43632/19

07/09/2019

Sergey Andreyevich SOKOLOV

1988Kamchatka Regional Court

11/06/2019

7,500

44808/19

06/08/2019

Nikita Fedorovich TIMOFEYEV

1989Supreme Court of the Komi Republic

Video link from IK-19, Komi Republic

23/12/2021

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of permanent video surveillance

Art. 8 (1) - permanent video surveillance of detainees in pre-trial or post-conviction detention facilities - IZ-1 Komi Republic; 14/09/2018 - 25/07/2020; opposite-sex operators, video surveillance in a lavatory and/or shower room, detention in different cells with video surveillance

7,500

46691/19

16/12/2019

Sergey Sergeyevich STOGOV

1990Rybinskiy District Court of the Krasnoyarsk Region

14/01/2021

7,500

51456/19

18/09/2019

Vasiliy Vasilyevich NYACHKO

1978Zheleznodorozhnyy District Court of Krasnoyarsk; Oktyabrskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk,

17/05/2019

7,500

53766/19

30/09/2019

Pavel Vasilyevich KOREPIN

1985Kortkerosskiy District Court of the Komi Republic

02/07/2019

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - transport between the detention facilities on 13-14/07/2019 and 08/08/2019 (overcrowding, insufficient number of sleeping places, lack of or poor quality of bedding and bed linen, lack or insufficient quantity of food, lack of fresh air, lack of or insufficient electric light, passive smoking, poor quality of food, no or restricted access to potable water, no or restricted access to toilet, lack of privacy for toilet);

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of transport

8,500

54037/19

19/09/2019

Maksim Yevgenyevich KOBCHIKOV

1975Boksitogorsk Town Court of the Leningrad Region

26/07/2019

7,500

54077/19

30/09/2019

Dmitriy Viktorovich KUTNYAKOV

1989Meshchanskiy District Court of Moscow, Moscow City Court

Video link from SIZO-4, Moscow

17/09/2019

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - transport of the applicant on numerous occasions since 24/10/2015 until late April 2019 to take part in investigative actions and court hearings; in an overcrowded van for several hours; without proper access to toilet; ventilation; and subsequent detention in convoy cells of the courthouses, without proper access to water; hot water; food and toilet;

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions during transport

8,500

54312/19

07/10/2019

Islam Lechayevich TURPULKHANOV

1980Isakogorskiy District Court of Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk Regional Court

18/11/2020

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport in single occupancy compartments of prison vans on several occasions from 16/03/2019 to 31/12/2020;

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic in respect of inadequate conditions of detention during transport

8,500

54933/19

01/10/2019

Aleksandr Andreyevich MAKAROV

1988Abakan Town Court

29/05/2019

7,500

54939/19

01/10/2019

Artem Mikhaylovich OREKHOVSKIY

1994Tsentralnyy District Court of Sochi

18/04/2019

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - conditions of transport in a van between the remand prison and the district court on several occasions from 07/02/2019 to 18/04/2019 (overcrowding, lack of fresh air);

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention during transport

8,500

56392/19

11/10/2019

Nikita Valeryevich SEVEROV

1990Supreme Court of Russia

(video-link)

12/04/2019

7,500

56416/19

27/09/2019

Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich POVOLOTSKIY

1988Meshchanskiy District Court of Moscow

18/04/2019

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - poor conditions of transport/ van, train, transit cell/ 15/10/2019 - 14/01/2020: overcrowding, insufficient number of sleeping places, passive smoking, mouldy or dirty cell, no or restricted access to toilet, lack of privacy for toilet, no or restricted access to warm water, lack of fresh air, lack of or insufficient electric light, lack of or insufficient natural light, infestation of cell with insects/rodents, lack of or poor quality of bedding and bed linen, no or restricted access to running water, poor quality of food

8,500

58185/19

25/10/2019

Viktor Valeryevich RYZHOV

1981Moshkovskiy District Court of the Novosibirsk Region

02/10/2019

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - transport by van, and detention in a transit cell: on 13/05-21/10/2019, on numerous occasions; lack of fresh air, lack of or insufficient natural light, lack of or insufficient electric light, inadequate temperature, lack of ventilation, infestation of cell with insects/rodents, lack of privacy for toilet, poor quality of potable water, lack of or restricted access to leisure or educational activities

8,500

58526/19

25/10/2019

Aleksandr Igorevich PETROV

1989Moshkovski District Court of the Novosibirsk Region

24/10/2019

7,500

58655/19

17/02/2020

Vladimir Olegovich LALETIN

1985Sverdlovskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk

10/09/2019

7,500

60362/19

14/11/2019

Maksim Aleksandrovich NEMOSHKALOV

1987Leninskiy District Court of Tyumen

16/05/2019

7,500

61128/19

29/10/2019

Saitgaray Zakir ogly KAMALEYEV

1991Sovetskiy District Court of Kazan, Tatarstan Republic

10/08/2020

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - van and transit cell / 0.26 sq. m of personal space / overcrowding, restricted access to toilet. From 06/09/2018 to 10/07/2019; and transport on van on a number of occasions to take part in court hearings in the period from 09/01/2020 to 10/08/2020;

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of poor conditions of detention during transport and against refusals of short-term family visits;

Art. 8 (1) - restrictions on family visits in pre-trial facilities - SIZO-1 Republic of Tatarstan - refusal of short-term family visits, physical separation and supervision during short-term family visits, limitation on the frequency of short-term family visits; Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan 27/09/2019: possibility to request family visit only once the applicant is convicted.

9,750

61164/19

09/11/2019

Zafar Nabiyevich YAKUBOV

1984Supreme Court of the Tatarstan Republic (by means of video-link from SIZO-1 Kazan)

03/09/2019

Art. 8 (1) - restrictions on family visits in pre-trial facilities - SIZO-1 Tatarstan Republic, since 24/04/2018 and at least until the date when the application was lodged with the Court; refusal of long-term family visits from his wife;

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - the applicant’s transport in a single-occupancy cubicle on numerous occasions for the duration of 1-2 hours in the period from 07/06/2019 to 24/06/2019 (lack of fresh air, lack or insufficient daylight, lack or insufficient artificial light, transport on numerous occasions, inadequate temperature, etc.).

9,750

62408/19

18/11/2019

Stanislav Valeriyevich BAKAYANOV

1988Vorkuta Town Court

22/05/2019

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - transport on 16-07/06/2019; by train; night-time journey, lack of bedding and bed linen, no or restricted access to toilet, lack of fresh air

8,500

62933/19

26/11/2019

Aleksandr Viktorovich GONCHAROV

1978Izhemskiy District Court of the Komi Republic

21/06/2019

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention during transport;

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - on 06/10/2019 during the transfer in a train, lack of fresh air, passive smoking, lack of or insufficient electric light, no or restricted access to toilet, lack of privacy for toilet, no or restricted access to potable water, overcrowding

8,500

63078/19

26/11/2019

Maksim Yuryevich MAKEYEV

1991Balashikha Town Court of the Moscow Region

19/09/2019

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - transport by van and detention in transit cells, 03/11/2017-19/09/2019, 0.25-1 sq. m of personal space, the applicant was transported on numerous occasions between the detention facilities and to take part in investigative actions or court hearings, lack of or inadequate hygienic facilities, no or restricted access to toilet, lack of fresh air, inadequate temperature, passive smoking, mouldy or dirty cell, overcrowding, lack of or insufficient electric light, accommodation with inmates under stricter regime, lack or inadequate furniture

8,500

63216/19

25/11/2019

Dmitriy Vladimirovich IVASHKO

1976Vasileostrovskiy District Court, Petrogradskiy District Court, Admiralteyskiy District Court, Vyborgskiy District Court of St Petersburg, Justice of the Peace of Court Circuit no. 155 in the Petrogradskiy District of St Petersburg and Justice of the Peace of Court Circuit no. 45 in the Tsentralnyy District of St Petersburg (the latest hearing was held on 13/11/2019)

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - on multiple occasions between his remand prison and various courts in St Petersburg from 01/02/2018 - ongoing on the date when the application was lodged with the Court (overcrowding, 0.2-0.3 sq. m of personal space, inadequate furniture, lack of safety equipment, lack of natural light, insufficient electric light, lack of fresh air, inadequate temperature, no access to toilet);

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention during transport

8,500

63392/19

26/11/2019

Ivan Mikhaylovich MARSHALKO

1984Klintsy Town Court and the Bryansk Regional Court

30/05/2019

Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport –

1) transport on multiple occasions between the detention facilities and courts from 23/07/2018 to 05/07/2019 (overcrowding, 0.2-0.3 sq. m of personal space, lack of fresh air, inadequate temperature, lack of or insufficient electric light, lack of or insufficient natural light, lack of or poor quality of bedding and bed linen, lack or insufficient quantity of food, restricted access to toilet, passive smoking).

2) conditions of transport by train on 31/05/2020 - 02/06/2020 (from SIZO ‑ 1 Ryazan to SIZO-2 Yaroslavl) and on 20/06/2020 - 21/06/2020 (from SIZO-1 Yaroslavl to SIZO-1 Kirov), with the same grievances (plus lack or restricted access to potable water).

8,500

[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.