CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 1 février 2024

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In the applications marked by an asterisk, other complaints were raised. This part of the applications has been struck out of the Court’s list of cases or declared inadmissible by the Court, sitting in a single-judge formation, assisted by a rapporteur as provided for in Article 24 § 2 of the Convention. In the enclosed list of applications, whenever an applicant is referred to using initials, this indicates that the Court has authorised anonymity for that person, whose identity will not be disclosed to the public (Rule 47 § 4). For further information on the procedure following communication of an application brought against Russia, subject of well-established case law of the Court, please refer to the Court’s website . SUBJECT MATTER The applications concern complaints raised under Article 3 of the Convention relating to use of metal cages and/or other security arrangements in courtrooms which are the subject of well-established case law of the Court (see 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).   APPENDIX – STATEMENT OF FACTS 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   Representative’s name and location Name of the court Date of the relevant judgment Start date End date Other complaints under well-established case-law     60846/15* 28/11/2015 Leonid Valeryevich RUDIK 1987   Sergey Aleksandrovich PISKUNOV 1981       Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (video link) 08/07/2015 05/11/2014 08/07/2015 Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of the second applicant’s detention under strict imprisonment regime - IK-18 of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region: isolation, limited outdoor exercise, lack of any purposeful activity; 14/12/2014 – pending as of 16/09/2022,   Art. 6 (1) - and Art. 6 (3) (c) - absence of confidential exchange with representative during the hearing of the first applicant’s criminal case by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia due to the latter’s participation in that hearing by means of a video link,   Art. 8 (1) - permanent video surveillance of detainees in pre-trial or post-conviction detention facilities - IK-18 of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region, from January 2017 onwards, opposite-sex operators,   Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings, permanent video surveillance in detention facilities and interference with the prisoners’ voting rights (the latter complaint concerns the first applicant only);   Art. 14 - prohibition of discrimination - In conjunction with Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 - disenfranchisement of the first applicant on the ground of his status of a convicted prisoner subjected him to discrimination,   Prot. 1 Art. 3 - ineligibility to vote in or stand for elections - the first applicant, as a convicted prisoner, debarred from voting during the elections in the State Duma on 18/09/2016     13889/17* 15/02/2017 Timur Rashitovich GILMANOV 1987   Aleksey Nikolayevich Laptev Moscow Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (video link) 15/08/2016 15/08/2016 15/08/2016 Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention after conviction - after having been found guilty of a triple murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, pending the appeal hearing and transfer to a correctional colony, from 12/12/2015 to 23/12/2016 the applicant was held in solitary confinement (see Gorbulya v. Russia , no.   31535/09, 6 March 2014; Borodin v. Russia , no. 41867/04, 6 November 2012),   Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings and in respect of detention in solitary confinement     5663/18* 20/12/2017 Ilnaz Midkhatovich FASKHUTDINOV 1978       Kazan Garrison Military Court 08/12/2017 31/08/2017 08/12/2017 Art. 3 - use of metal cages and/or other security arrangements in courtrooms - studying of the case file inside the metal cage: 13/10/2016-20/06/2017 in SIZO-2 of the Republic of Tatarstan; 04/09/2017-18/09/2017 and 04/07/2018-05/10/2018 in the courtroom of the Kazan Garrison Military Court,   Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - Inadequate condition of transportation in van from remand prison to courthouse between 04/07/2018 and 05/10/2018, overcrowding, transportation in a single-prisoner cubicle, lack of fresh air, inadequate temperature, lack of or insufficient natural light, lack of or insufficient electric light, no or restricted access to toilet,   Art. 8 (1) - restrictions on family visits in pre-trial facilities - SIZO-1 of Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan: limitation on the frequency of short-term family visits, physical separation and supervision during short-term family visits,   Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention during transport and refusals of short-term family visits     8716/18* 08/03/2018 Timur Faridovich AKBEROV 1976   Mariya Nikolayevna Sernovets Moscow Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, Moscow City Court (video link) 25/07/2019 24/03/2016 25/07/2019 Art. 5 (3) - excessive length of pre-trial detention - Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, Moscow City Court; 22/03/2016-08/12/2017; fragility and repetitiveness of the reasoning employed by the courts as the case progressed, use of assumptions, in the absence of any evidentiary basis, of the risks of absconding or obstructing justice,   Art. 5 (4) - excessive length of judicial review of detention - the Moscow City Court reviewed the detention orders of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow of 14/09/2017 and 02/12/2017 on 09/11/2017 and 01/02/2018, respectively,   Art. 8 (1) - restrictions on family visits in pre-trial facilities - SIZO-2 Moscow, SIZO-2 Kaluga Region, SIZO-1 Yaroslavl Region, SIZO-1 Republic of Tatarstan: physical separation and supervision during short-term family visits, refusal of long-term family visits, impossibility of phone communications, the applicant was transferred to the correctional colony on 05/12/2019,   Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings and refusals of short-term family visits     47611/18* 24/09/2018 Dmitriy Vasilyevich KOSOLAPOV 1995       Syktyvkar Town Court, Supreme Court of the Republic of Komi (video link) 04/04/2018 26/01/2017 04/04/2018       35777/19* 27/09/2019 Kirill Aleksandrovich RADICHEV 1977       Verkhnyaya Pyshma Town Court of the Sverdlovsk Region (personal presence and video link), Sverdlovsk Regional Court (video link)   09/03/2019 Proceedings were pending on the date when the application was lodged with the Court Art. 5 (1) (c) - Lawful arrest or detention/reasonable suspicion of having committed an offence - The applicant was arrested on 05/03/2019 (record of arrest drawn up by the police on the same day); on 07/03/2019 the applicant was conveyed to the investigator, who on 08/03/2019 drew up the record of his arrest as a suspect; the applicant was detained on remand on 09/03/2019: the applicant thus spent over 48   hours under arrest until the custodial measure was applied to him by the court. The applicant raised this issue in his appeal against the detention order of 09/03/2019, however his complaint was dismissed on 24/05/2019.     19428/20 16/03/2020 Irek Ilshatovich SADRIYEV 1994       Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan (video link) 18/09/2019 18/09/2019 18/09/2019 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings     28425/20* 18/04/2020 Aleksey Leonidovich CHERNOV 1968   Karen Kimovich Gigolyan Moscow Moscow City Court 18/10/2019 05/09/2019 18/10/2019 Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - transport by van from 05/09/2019 to 18/10/2019,   Art. 8 (1) - permanent video surveillance of detainees in pre-trial or post-conviction detention facilities - IZ-2 Moscow, from 20/09/2015 to 21/12/2020, detention in different cells with video surveillance, video surveillance in a lavatory and/or shower room     10012/21 17/01/2021 Alaudin Savarbekovich BOKOV 1983       Ostankinskiy District Court of Moscow, Moscow City Court (video link)   30/10/2019 Proceedings pending on the date when the application was lodged with the Court