CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 4 décembre 2020

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Between 2017 and 2018 they were convicted of different criminal offences. When convicting them the domestic courts relied, inter alia , on the applicants’ statements of surrender and confession and in case of Mr Sergeyev (application no. 42426/18) as well as on his explanations, altogether made in the absence of a lawyer and before having been notified of their procedural rights. The applicants’ personal details and information about their convictions appear in the Appendix. Relevant domestic law and practice General overview The relevant domestic law and practice in respect of confession statements given in the absence of a lawyer are summarised in the case of Turbylev v. Russia (no. 4722/09, §§ 46-56, 6 October 2015). Recent developments On 29 November 2016 the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation gave Ruling no. 55, section 10 of which provides that before admitting in evidence a statement of surrender and confession referred to by the prosecution the trial court should examine, among other things, whether prior to that confession the defendant was informed of his rights, including the right not to incriminate himself and the right to a lawyer and whether he was given the opportunity to effectively exercise them. COMPLAINTS The applicants complain under Article 6 § 3 (c) of the Convention in conjunction with Article 6 § 1 that their rights of defence in criminal proceedings were violated, as their initial confessions in the form of statements of surrender and confession – which formed the basis of their criminal conviction – were obtained in breach of their right to a lawyer.   QUESTION TO THE PARTIES Did the applicants have a fair hearing in the determination of the criminal charges against them, in accordance with Article 6 of the Convention? In particular, having regard to the fact that the applicants were not assisted by a lawyer when they made statements to the police and to the principles adopted by the Grand Chamber in the cases of Ibrahim and Others v.   the   United Kingdom ([GC], no. 50541/08 and 3 others, §§ 255-65, 13   September 2016 and Beuze v. Belgium ([GC], no. 71409/10, §§   120 ‑ 50, 9   November 2018, has there been a breach of Article 6 §§ 1 and 3 (c) of the Convention?     APPENDIX No. Application no. Date of introduction Applicant’s name Date of birth Place of residence Nationality Represented by Applicant’s conviction Evidence obtained allegedly in violation of the right to legal assistance and used for conviction   Applicant’s procedural status when making self-incriminating statements     10669/18 14/02/2018   Dmitriy Aleksandrovich YUMAYEV   1991 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russian   Vladimir Andreyevich KASHPRUK Convicted on 29/05/2017 by the South-Sakhalinskiy Town Court   of drug dealing and and attempted drug dealing in conspiracy,   upheld on appeal on 09/11/2017   by the Sakhalinsk Regional Court   A statement of surrender and confession given at the Sakhalinsk Region Department of the Federal Drug Control Service ( УФСКН РФ по Сахалинской области ) at 10.00 p.m. on 06/08/2014     Reiterated on 06/08/2014 in an interview as an accused in the presence of a State-appointed lawyer Mr Ch.   Refused to confirm or refute his confession statement on 26/01/2015   in the interview as a suspect in the presence of a lawyer of own choosing Mr T. in view of the intention to conclude a plea bargain   Arrested at 10 a.m. on 06/08/2014   Brought to the Sakhalinsk Region Department of the Federal Drug Control Service ( УФСКН РФ по Сахалинской области)   Access to a lawyer given at around 11.00 p.m. on 06/08/2014 (State-appointed lawyer Mr Ch.)   Released at around 3 a.m. on 07/08/2014       42426/18 23/08/2018   Mikhail Valeryevich SERGEYEV   1972 Volchanets Russian   Aleksandr Vadimovich SHPALOV Convicted on 09/11/2017 by the Primorskiy Regional Court   of murder in conspiracy,   upheld on appeal on 15/03/2018 by the Supreme Court of Russia   A statement of surrender and confession and explanations given at the police department in Vladivostok, Primorskiy Region ( оперативный отдел полиции г. Владивостока Приморского края ) at 02.00 p.m. on 19/07/2016   Reiterated on 19/07/2016   in the interview as a suspect and reconstruction of the crime in the presence of a State-appointed lawyer Mr K., and on 20/07/2016 in the interview as an accused in the presence of the same lawyer   Arrested at 07.30 a.m. on 19/07/2016   Brought to the police department in Vladivostok, Primorskiy Region ( оперативный отдел полиции г. Владивостока Приморского края )   Access to a lawyer at 03.15 p.m. on 19/07/2016 (State-appointed lawyer Mr K.)   Arrest record drawn up at 03.15 p.m. on 19/07/2016     6847/19 29/12/2018   Sergey Aleksandrovich KUTKIN   1986 Irbit Russian Convicted on 27/04/2018 by the Irbitskiy District Court of the Sverdlovsk Region   of sexual assault,   upheld on appeal on 24/07/2018 by the Sverdlovsk Regional Court   A statement of surrender and confession given at the Irbitskiy police station of the Ministry of the Interior ( Ирбитский ОВД МВД России ) at 07.58 p.m. on 09/09/2017   Reiterated on 10/09/2017 in the interview as an accused in the presence of a lawyer   Presented himself to the Irbitskiy police station of the Ministry of the Interior ( Ирбитский ОВД МВД России ) at the investigator’s request at 06.00 p.m. on 09/09/2017   Arrest record drawn up at 11.59 p.m. on 09/09/2017   Access to a lawyer given on 10/09/2017