CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 5 septembre 2018

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padding-left:3.5pt; vertical-align:top } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt }   Communicated on 5 September 2018   THIRD SECTION Application no. 5264/10 Aleksey Aleksandrovich PULYALIN against Russia and 5 others – see appended list STATEMENT OF FACTS The applicants complained under Article 3 of the Convention that they had been subjected to ill-treatment by State officials and that the State failed to conduct an effective domestic investigation into those incidents. All of the applicants submitted that their attempts to initiate criminal investigation in connection with the incidents proved futile. The applicants in cases nos.   5264/10, 61406/11 and 47008/16 also relied on Article 13 in the latter respect.   The relevant details regarding the applicants’ allegations and their version of factual circumstances are reflected in the attached appendices. The information regarding the alleged breach of the substantive aspect of Article 3 in contained in Appendix no. 1. The reaction of the domestic authorities to the applicants’ complaints is reflected in Appendix no. 2.   The table of cases:   No. Application number Introduction date Name of the applicant(s); date of birth place of residence Represented by 1. 5264/10 23/12/2009 Aleksey Aleksandrovich PULYALIN 12/08/1986 Lyayel   2. 53082/10 23/08/2010 A.C. 22/12/1979 Tyumen   3. 61406/11 31/08/2011 Aleksey Aleksandrovich AVERKIYEV 03/10/1973 Buzuluk COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE 4. 68946/12 26/09/2012 Sergey Vladimirovich TIKHONOVSKIY 21/02/1961 Voronezh   5. 72140/13 02/10/2013 Nikolay Petrovich KOLOMIYKO 06/02/1979 Samara   6. 47008/16 04/08/2016 Denis Yuryevich KRAMCHANINOV 11/06/1991 Shakhunya Olga Aleksandrovna SADOVSKAYA   QUESTIONS 1.     Having regard to the injuries found on the applicants after the time spent by them in State custody, have the applicants been subjected to torture, or inhuman or degrading treatment, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention (see, among other authorities, Razzakov v. Russia , no.   57519/09, 5   February 2015; Gorshchuk v. Russia , no. 31316/09, 6   October 2015; Turbylev v.   Russia , no.   4722/09, 6   October 2015; Fartushin v. Russia , no.   38887/09, 8   October 2015; Aleksandr Andreyev v. Russia , no.   2281/06, 23   February 2016; and Leonid Petrov v. Russia , no. 52783/08, 11   October 2016)?   2.     Have the authorities discharged their burden of proof by providing a plausible or satisfactory and convincing explanation of how the applicants’ injuries were caused (see Selmouni, cited above, § 87, and Salman v. Turkey [GC], no.   21986/93, §   100, ECHR 2000 ‑ VII and Bouyid v. Belgium [GC], no.   23380/09, §   83 and further, ECHR 2015)?   3.     Did the authorities carry out an effective investigation, in compliance with the procedural obligation under Articles 3 and 13 of the Convention (see Lyapin v.   Russia , no.   46956/09, §§   125-40, 24 July 2014), having regard to:   (a)     the investigating authorities’ refusals to open criminal cases and investigate the applicants’ allegations of ill-treatment by the State officials, and the overruling of those refusals as unlawful and unsubstantiated by higher investigative authorities or courts, and   (b)     the investigating authorities’ inability to implement full investigative measures within the framework of the pre-investigation inquiries, before and/or after amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure introduced by Federal Law no. 23-FZ of 4 March 2013, for example, confrontations, identification parades, searches, and so forth?   No   Application No. and Title   APPENDIX No. 1 Article 3 - Substantive aspect ARREST ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT EVIDENCE Date Time Facts Region town street Entity Date Time Location Alleged Facts Perpetrator(s) Date Doc Type Authority Description of Injuries 1. 5264/10 Pulyalin v.   Russia     During detention (every day from 10/01/2010 to 03/02/2010) IK-56, Sverdlovsk region Blows, threats of sexual violence, making the applicant run bended in a corridor several colony officers, including B (1), B (2), B (3), S., K., M. 16/04/2010 Expert statement Forensic Bureau of Sverdlovsk region Bruises on both buttocks, covering 8*12 cm on each one, located in lower quadrants, near gluteofemoral fold", "Some clubbing of I interphalangeal joint of I pollex of the left wrist, with limitation of motion. During detention on 28/05/2013 IZ-1 Komi Blows on his head, right eye, body, handcuffing Remand prison officers A., B. and others 01/07/2013, 01/08/2013 Decisions to refuse opening of criminal investigation Investigative committee of Syuktyuvkar Bruise near the right orbit. 2. 53082/10 A.C. v.   Russia 17/05/2006 Tyumen Arrested on suspicion of multiple murder Every day after the arrest between 17/05/2006 and 25/05/2006 The building of IVS Systemic beatings with a view to extracting confession, putting a bag on the head, electric shock, operative officers L., I., U. and one P. 18/05/2006 Medical certificate no. 4067 Medical forensic expert Scratch on the left shoulder dating 0,5 to 1,5 days before. 19/05/2006 Medical certificate no. 4115 Medical forensic expert Scratch on both hands dating 1 to 3 days before; bruises on the body and right leg dating 1,5 to 5 days before. 24/05/2006 Medical certificate no. 4284 Medical forensic expert Bruises on the chest, back, right ankle dating 6 to 14 days before. 3. 61406/11 Averkiyev v.   Russia 26/12/2006 Orenburg Regional police department Detained in facility no. IZ-56/3 in Orenburg 19/05/2008 Organised Crime Unit of the Orenburg Regional Department of Interior (brought for questioning from detention facility no. IZ-56/3 Several hits in the head and in the face Organised Crime Unit officer S. 19/05/2008 Medical certificate IZ-56/3 Medical Unit Bruise on the lower third of a left shin measuring 15x15x10, hyperimia in the area of 6th-7th cervical vertebra, bruise on an upper eyelid of left eye. 20/05/2008 Medical certificate IZ-56/3 Medical Unit Brain concussion, bruises on a left shin, neck and on an upper eyelid of left eye. 4. 68946/12 Tikhonovskiy v.   Russia 19/05/2009 Voronezh, Bakhme-tyeva street 10A Operative division no. 6 of the Voronezh Regional police department Administrative arrest for disorderly conduct; subsequent criminal proceedings which resulted in the applicant’s acquittal 19/05/2009 Operative division no. 6 of the Voronezh Regional police department The applicant was arrested for having committed an administrative offence and ill-treated for the purpose of obtaining confession (suffocation with plastic bag, blows, torture by electroshocks) Policemen Kru, Mesh, Kor and Sit. 02/03/2011 Forensic examination report Forensic Bureau of Voronezh Bruises on the shoulders and arms, burns on the stomach and genitals (at least 16 injuries). Apparently, the injuries were inflicted on 19/05/2009, certainly not on 02/06/2009.       02/06/2009   Search department of Criminal police The applicant was brought from the hospital to the criminal police and was subjected to the ill-treatment by electroshocks Policemen Kru and Kor   02/06/2009 Extract from medical records ( Выписка из медицинской карты ) Voronezh Regional Hospital Bruises by electroshocks on the genitals, 21/05/2009 Forensic examination act Forensic Bureau of Voronezh Bruises on the shoulders and arms, burns on the stomach and genitals, 5. 72140/13 Kolomiyko v.   Russia 11/02/2013 Ufa OP 3 UMVD of the town of Ufa Arrested on suspicion of murder 11/02/2013 OP 3 UMVD of the town of Ufa Beatings on the body: punches and kicks; covered the body with a jacket and sat on top of it until the collar bone cracked officers of OP 3 UMVD of the town of Ufa 04/03/2013 Expert examination no. 2531 Forensic medical expert Closed splintered fracture of the mid tier part of the collar bone on the left side with the displacement of splinters; bruises of soft tissues of the loin area on the left. 13/02/2013 Medical certificate no. 341 Doctor of GBUZ RB GKB no. 21 Closed splintered fracture of the mid tier part of the collar bone on the left side with the displacement of splinters; bruises of soft tissues of the loin area on the left. 02/08/2010 Medical certificate ( выписка из амбулаторной карты ) Shakhunskaya Central District Hospital Brain concussion 15/07/2010 Witnesses’ testimonies Investigator Mother submitted: dirty T-shirt; friend A. submitted: red spots on the face, swollen little finger; bail officer: bruise and scratch on the face, bruises and redness on the hands,     No Application No. and Title APPENDIX No. 2 Article 3 - Procedural aspect DOMESTIC COMPLAINT AND THE GOVERNMENT REACTION Date of Complaint Authority Type of Reaction Date(s) Procedural Outcome 1. 5264/10 Pulyalin v.   Russia 03/02/2010 Correctional colony administration, investigator of the Investigative Committee Consistently refused Refusal on 11/11/2010 (in relation to ill-treatment of the applicant and several other of his co-detainees). No criminal case was opened. The refusal decision was contested, but the complaints of the applicant’s lawyer were rejected by the courts on 20/10/2011 (FI), 28/12/2011 (appeal). The refusal was preceded by an inquiry involving the questioning of multiple co-detainees and colony officials. The applicant alleges inefficiency of the investigation (not prompt, not thorough, delayed access to its findings). The trauma of the applicant’s finger on the left hand was apparently not investigated and not all of the colony officials he had indicated as perpetrators were questioned. 30/05/2013 Investigative committee of Syktyvkar Consistently refused Refusals on 01/07/2013, 01/08/2013. Two refusals. The applicant applied to the first instance court to contest the first of them, yet just before the hearing, the refusal was cancelled, and within several days after that a new refusal was made. 2. 53082/10 A.C. v.   Russia 23/06/2006 Prosecutor’s office of the town of Tyumen Criminal investigation 03/07/2006 investigation refused More than a few dozen of prosecutor decisions rejecting the applicant’s complaints from 2006 to 2011. 3. 61406/11 Averkiyev v.   Russia 26/05/2008 Prosecutor’s Office of the Orenburg Region Consistently refused 4 refusals to open a criminal case on 20/06/2008, 10/08/2008, 05/03/2009 and 05/05/2010, first three quashed by the investigator’s superiors After 2 quashings, the first-instance court on 31/01/2011 (later upheld on appeal on 03/03/2011) dismissed the applicant’s complaint under Article 125 of the CCrP against the refusal to institute criminal proceedings. The investigator dismissed the allegations of ill-treatment and gave no alternative explanation as to the source of the applicant’s injuries. 4. 68946/12 Tikhonovskiy v.   Russia 22/05/2009 Investigative Committee of the Leninskiy District of Voronezh Refused, then granted Refusals to bring criminal proceeding of 05/06/2009, 02/07/2009, 03/09/2009, 19/11/2009, investigation brought on 26/10/2009, suspended on 25/11/2009, 28/03/2011, 11/09/2011, 17/01/2012. Proceedings against the identified police officers closed in view of the lack of any criminal conduct (appeal decision of 31/05/2012 by the Voronezh Regional Court); Criminal proceedings pertaining to the very fact of the ill-treatment suspended (by the appeal decision of the Voronezh Regional Court of 17/01/2012) in view of the impossibility to establish the perpetrators of the alleged criminal offence. Refusal of prosecution of the perpetrators on 11/09/2011, cassation on 31/05/2012. Civil proceedings (first instance of 30/07/2012, appeal of 01/11/2012), RUB 1,500,000 awarded in compensation for non-pecuniary damage because, as was established by the courts, "employees of the Voronezh Regional police department" were responsible for the extensive health damage sustained by the applicant between 19/05/2006 and 02/06/2006 and recorded by various medical evidence. 5. 72140/13 Kolomiyko v.   Russia unknown Central InterDistrict Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of town of Ufa Consistently refused 25/07/2013 The applicant’s complaint in respect of the investigator’s decision of 25/07/2013 was disallowed by the Kirovsk District Court of the town of Ufa on 21/06/2013 and 27/08/2013. 6. 47008/16 Kramchaninov v.   Russia 16/07/2010 Shakhunsky MSO SU SK for the Nizhniy Novgorod Region Consistently refused 04/03/2016 The indicated date is the latest quashing of a refusal to prosecute. 10 refusals to prosecute all of which quashed by the investigator’s superior. The applicant appealed to court twice but no court ever had a chance to examine the refusals on the merits as a couple of days before each hearing the refusal was quashed by the investigators. In the refusals no version as to the material facts.