CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 14 mai 2018

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border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-width:0.75pt; padding-right:3.12pt; padding-left:3.5pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff } .sF00A2B95 { font-family:Arial; font-size:5.33pt; vertical-align:super } .sF5B4B0A7 { height:10.85pt } .sCD8FD88E { height:60.55pt } .sCE904B1C { border-right-style:solid; border-right-width:0.75pt; border-left-style:solid; border-left-width:0.75pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-width:0.75pt; padding-right:3.12pt; padding-left:3.12pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff } .s1D670E94 { border-right-style:solid; border-right-width:0.75pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-width:0.75pt; padding-right:3.12pt; padding-left:3.5pt; vertical-align:top } .s28666D70 { height:42.25pt } .s647C798 { border-top-style:solid; border-top-width:0.75pt; border-right-style:solid; border-right-width:0.75pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-width:0.75pt; padding-right:3.12pt; padding-left:3.5pt; vertical-align:top }   Communicated on 14 May 2018   THIRD SECTION Application no. 25437/11 Mumin Marufovich SULTANOV against Russia and 6 other applications (see list appended) STATEMENT OF FACTS The applicants complained under Articles 3 and 13 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 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. 25437/11 02/03/2011 Mumin Marufovich SULTANOV 17/04/1977 Samarkand   2. 33032/11 01/03/2011 Dmitriy Vladimirovich KLIMNENKO 13/01/1975 Shara-Gorokhon   3. 48529/12 31/07/2012 Yevgeniy Viktorovich RYLOV Kirovo-Chepetsk   4. 4842/13 10/12/2012 Viktor Yuryevich RASPUTIN 16/06/1957 Chimanovsk   5. 23379/13 10/03/2013 Rauf Rafailovich SITDIKOV 16/12/1974 Kazan   6. 48228/14 27/06/2014 Aleksey Borisovich SINEGUBOV 12/07/1984 Orenburg COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE 7. 49389/15 01/09/2015 Andrey Grigoryevich GOLOVACHEV 22/06/1967 Kharp     QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES 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 Article 3 and Article 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 Region / town /street Entity Facts Date / time Location Alleged Facts Perpetrator(s) Date Doc Type Authority Description of Injuries 1. 25437/11 Sultanov v. Russia   03/09/2009 St. Petersburg   Police office no. 47 in St. Petersburg   Arrested at work (around 18.00) on a charge of aggravated robbery 3/09/2009 to 4/09/2009   Police office No. 47, St.   Petersburg   Scars on the applicant’s neck and hands. Abrasions on the right shin, back. Hematoma of the left eye.   Police officers 04/09/2009 at 5:50 Medical certificate Doctor of the City Hospital No. 109 emergency station Scars on the applicant’s neck and hands. Abrasions on the right shin and back. Hematoma of the left eye.                 23/07/2012 Entry in the medical history record of 07/09/2009 Remand prison medical officer Hematoma of the left eye. 2. 33032/11 Klimnenko v.   Russia 23/04/2009 at 16:10 the applicant’s flat, 25/2 Kommunis-ticheskiy avenue-6, Rostov-on-Don FSKN (federal drugs control service) Rostov broken rib on the right, concussion, missing tooth, bruises on the head and face 23/04/2009 at 18:55     Police officers 30/04/2009 Medical expert report no. 328; witnesses’ testimonies; Prison Act no. 73 Dispensary of the Zelenograd Inter-district Office of forensic examinations of the Rostov Region; Department IZ-61/3 Novocherkassk Hematoma of the right eye. It could be appear on 24/04/2009; bruising to the chest and hematoma of the right eye. 3. 48529/12 Rylov v.   Russia   11/12/2008 during search in the office Office "Khim-trade", Kirovo-Chepetsk The police came to the office; hit the applicant several times to various part of the body, handcuffed him and placed on the floor; then he was brought to the police department from which he was released four hours later following decision on an administrative offence. Administrative proceedings were discontinued by a court on 15/01/2009 for the lack of evidence. The police officers D. and V. and unknown police officers n/a Forensic examination n/a Multiple bruises on the face and forearm, bruises on the wrists. Light bodily harm injuries. Apparently on 11/01/2009 Medical certificate Kirovo-Chepetskaya District hospital Traumatic trachelomyitis 4. 4842/13 Rasputin v.   Russia 26/05/2009               Department of Shimanovskiy District police     placed in a detention facility where he stayed ever since     20/08/2009 to 21/08/2009   IVS Blagovesh-chensk     No particular details, allegedly was beaten up in the cell     Unclear; cellmates M. and P. or police officers B., P., U 21/08/2009         27/10/2009       02/11/2009 Ambulance medical certificate     Medical examination report   Forensic report Blagoveshchensk ambulance service     Forensic expert Brain concussion, hematoma on the head, bruises on the face and lower lip, bruise around the right eye Three weeks of in-patient treatment in the medical unit. 5. 23379/13 Sitdikov v.   Russia 13/01/2012 at 15:00 Republic of Tatarstan Police officers Arrested for the suspicion of having committed a criminal offence 02/03/2012 during the detention office no. 315 of the Countering extremism centre of the Ministry of the Interior of the RT (ЦПЭ МВД по РТ), K. Fuks street 2 a, Kazan Beating the head against metal safe, putting legs on the face, maintain on the concrete floor in handcuffs for 2.5 hours Investigative team of Investigation Brigade № 6 of the Ministry of the Interior of the Tatarstan, Fuks street-2 (ОРЧ-6 МВД по РТ) 02/03/2012               13/03/2012 Certificate of examination of physical injury;       Forensic examination report Duty nurse of IZ-1 of the Republic of Tatarstan;           The Republican Bureau of Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Health of the RT Deep abrasion of 2-3 mm on the left forehead, bright bruises on the foreheads and on the brow, abrasion of the left shoulder, linear marks on both wrists.   Multiple contusions, bruising on the head, bruises in the thoracic and lumbar spine, abrasion of the left shoulder. 6. 48228/14 Sinegubov v.   Russia Night of 23/02/2011 to 24/02/2011 Orenburg, Orenburg Region Police office no. 2, Orenburg Arrested in a street near a shop, allegedly in an intoxicated state 24/02/2011 Police office No. 2, Orenburg Punches on head, torso, hands. Suffocation by plastic bag. Police officers 25/02/2011 Report on bodily injuries Medical officer of the remand prison No. 56/1, Orenburg Abrasions on right shoulder, armpits, left side of the waist, left side of the forehead, right side of the chest. 7. 49389/15 Golovachev v.   Russia   08/12/ 2011, n/a IK-5, Vologodskiy Region, washing premises Multiple punishes and kicks: right temple, right part of the chest. Wrenched right wrist Inmates and possibly prison officers n/a Discharge epicrisis Prison hospital Lower jaw fracture, concussion, fracture of fifth bone from the left, 08/12/2011 to 12/12/2011 IK-5, Vologodskiy Region, medical ward Wrenching shoulder joints, pressure on injured parts Prison official 08/12/2012 Internal note ( докладная записка ) Prison nurse Hypostases of jaw and left wrist,         12/12/2012 Report ( рапорт ) Prison doctor on duty Concussion, lower jaw fracture, multiple bruises on the face, 3rd-5th left wrist bones fracture; an injury of the soft tissues of the temporal region; an injury of the right wrist; bruises on the right side of the chest; an injury of the right shoulder.     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. 25437/11 Sultanov v.   Russia 2/03/2010 Investigation Committee Consistently refused The first refusal to initiate criminal proceedings was issued on 31/03/2010. The 4 th one (the last) was issued on 24/01/2011. Refusals to initiate criminal proceedings were quashed 3 times by higher authorities. Existence of injuries was not clearly admitted by the domestic authorities. No version of events given. The applicant challenged the second refusal to initiate criminal investigation (15 July 2010) with the prosecutor’s office. This complaint was considered on the merits and the refusal was quashed. 2. 33032/11 Klimnenko v.   Russia 30/04/2009 The Sovetskiy Department of the Investigative Committee of Rostov-on-Don Consistently refused 10/08/2009; 01/03/2010; 11/03/2011; 11/04/2011 On 11/04/ 2011 - the refusal to institute criminal proceedings by an investigator. The conviction of 20/08/2010 was upheld on appeal by the Rostov Regional Court on 6/10/2010. Refusal under Article 125 of the CCPr – 25/11/2011 the Sovetskiy District Court, upheld on appeal by the Rostov Regional Court on 27/03/2012. 3. 48529/12 Rylov v.   Russia 11/12/2008 Local Police Department Criminal Investigation 01/12/2010 criminal case opened Criminal case opened in view of disproportionate actions by the police officers, closed several months later in view of the lack of criminal conduct, re-opened again (as the applicant lawfully refused to submit to a body search which had not been authorised by any legal authority and had been performed in the presence of female observers (the investigator and officers attempted to body search the applicant to take keys to his flat for which the search had been authorised)the 1 st instance court judgment of 23/12/2011 upheld on appeal 31/01/2011 declared the criminal case was closed lawfully because the pre-investigation activities were complete and sufficient. Administrative proceeding against the applicant and the investigator’s decision to carry out the investigation declared unlawful on 15/01/2009 and 25/01/2010. Contrary to these instructions and the court orders, the investigation concluded that the applicant’s actions were unlawful and the use of force was justified. 4.   4842/13 Rasputin v.   Russia 27/08/2009 Amur Region Prosecutor’s Office Consistently refused The 1 st refusal to open a criminal case; 14/09/2009 – the 2 nd refusal, quashed by the superior prosecutor on 29/09/2009; 30/09/2009, 22/03/2010 – the 3 rd and 4 th refusals The applicant’s complaint under Article 125 of the CCrP against the 4 th refusal to institute criminal proceedings was dismissed by the first-instance court decision of 28/04/2012, upheld on appeal on 17/07/2012. The investigator concluded that the applicant had been beaten up by his cellmates, no investigation into their actions was carried out. 5. 23379/13 Sitdikov v.   Russia 17/02/2012 Deputy Head of the 1 st investigation unit of the Internal Affairs authorities of the RT ( ОВД СУ СК РФ по РТ ) / Prosecutor of the Republic of Tatarstan Consistently refused 13/04/2012 - refusal to institute criminal proceedings By a first instance judgment of 10/08/2012 (the Vakhitovskiy District Court of Kazan), upheld an appeal on 2/10/2012 (Judicial Division of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan), there was a refusal to initiate criminal proceedings. Ground for refusal: no evidence of an offence, the applicant beat himself 6. 48228/14 Sinegubov v.   Russia March 2011 Prosecutor’s office Consistently refused The first refusal to initiate criminal proceedings was issued on 03/05/2011. The last one (the 16 th ) was issued on 26/09/2016. On multiple occasions investigators refused to initiate criminal proceedings. These decisions were quashed by higher administrative authorities. Article 125 of the Code of Criminal Proceedings complaint against inaction of investigation was partly granted on 6/06/2013. On 8/10/2013 the proceedings regarding the second Article 125 inaction complaint were discontinued. 7. 49389/15 Golovachev v.   Russia 27/01/2012 Investigation Committee Consistently refused 10/03/2012, 23/07/2012, 29/08/2012 The applicant appealed against the refusal of 29/08/2012. On 08/04/2015 his complaint was dismissed on the merits by the first instance court. On 30/06/2015 the applicant’s appeal was dismissed. The authorities’ version was the following: the applicant attempted to put on pants in a shower room, his leg got caught and he fell on a floor. The applicant also attempted to initiate civil proceedings seeking compensation.