CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 4 mai 2023

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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, no. 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     15304/19* 04/03/2019 Olesya Viktorovna YELISEYEVA 1979 Aleksey Vladimirovich Yezerskiy Samara Samarskiy District Court of Samara; Samara Regional Court 04/09/2018 19/09/2017 04/09/2018 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings     1739/20* 18/12/2019 Aleksey Aleksandrovich PULYALIN 1986   Anton Alekseyevich KOROSTELEV 1987     Ukhta Town Court of the Republic of Komi; Supreme Court of the Republic of Komi, Second Court of Appeal, Third Cassation Court; Supreme Court of Russia: by means of a video link from remand prisons IK-6 Orenburg (1st applicant) and SIZO-2 the Republic of Komi (2 nd applicant). 21/03/2019                   28/02/2022 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   40664/20 24/02/2021 Vitaliy Valeryevich KOTCHENKO 1982     Krasnoyarsk Regional Court, Fifth Appeal Court 10/06/2021 21/10/2019 10/06/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings     50736/21 04/10/2021 Ilya Mikhaylovich TONKIKH 2001     Syktyvkar Town Court of the Republic of Komi 29/07/2021 06/01/2021 29/07/2021 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 ineligibility to vote in or stand for elections;   Art. 8 (1) - permanent video surveillance of detainees in pre-trial or post-conviction detention facilities - IZ-1 Republic of Komi (detention in different cells with video surveillance, opposite-sex operators) from 06/01/2021 to 02/09/2021;   Prot. 1 Art. 3 - ineligibility to vote in or stand for elections - Impossibility for the applicant as a prisoner to vote in elections, including elections to the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament on 19/09//2021;   Art. 14 - prohibition of discrimination - in conjunction with Prot. 1 Art. 3     53112/21 06/10/2021 Viktor Nikolayevich SHCHEGLOV 1975     Kupinskiy District Court of the Novosibirsk Region 17/05/2021 09/03/2021 17/05/2021       58425/21 28/10/2021 Eduard Vyacheslavovich NIKOLAYEV 1992     Sysolskiy District Court of the Republic of Komi 13/07/2021 13/07/2021 13/07/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings     58434/21 01/11/2021 Sergey Konstantinovich SHMELEV 1994     Tsentralnyy District Court of Krasnoyarsk 05/07/2021 11/03/2020 05/07/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings     58665/21* 03/11/2021 Anvar Urazgaleyevich KALDAMANOV 1987     Onega Town Court of the Arkhangelsk Region 20/10/2021 20/10/2021 20/10/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings     58731/21* 11/11/2021 Takhir Rashitovich AKHMETSHIN 1976     Second Appeal Court 13/07/2021 13/07/2021 13/07/2021     59214/21* 11/11/2021 Maksim Aleksandrovich GUSHCHIN 1990     Slobodskoy District Court of the Kirov Region 29/09/2021 29/09/2021 29/09/2021     59559/21 22/10/2021 Aleksandr Ivanovich DEVYATOV 1976     Argayashskiy District Court of the Chelyabinsk Region (by means of video conference from a metal cage in the detention facility) 06/08/2021 07/06/2021 06/08/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   59575/21 21/01/2022 Anatoliy Aleksandrovich BESSONOV 1991     Kirovskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk 29/12/2021 11/05/2021 29/12/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   59729/21 16/02/2022 Nikolay Sergeyevich KLEMETS 1978       Kirovskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk 10/12/2021 30/06/2021 10/12/2021     60502/21 20/11/2021 Pavel Vladimirovich AGAFUROV 1984     Leninskiy District Court of Barnaul, Altay Regional Court (in the later court the applicant participated by means of the video link from the remand prison) 30/07/2021 06/04/2021 30/07/2021     60503/21 07/11/2021 Olga Aleksandrovna LOGINOVA 1995     Dzerzhinskiy District Court of Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Regional Court (in the later court the applicant participated by means of the video link from the remand prison) 17/05/2021 22/12/2020 17/05/2021     60504/21 17/11/2021 Maksim Vadimovich TROFIMENKO 1993     Dzerzhinskiy District Court of Volgograd   06/07/2021 End date is unknown, placement in metal cage was ongoing on the date when the application was lodged Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   60505/21 25/11/2021 Fenil Minnereisovich SMENOV 1978     Batyrevskiy District Court of the Republic of Chuvashia, Supreme Court of the Republic of Chuvashia (in the later court the applicant participated by means of the video link from the remand prison) 19/08/2021 02/02/2021 19/08/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   60844/21 29/11/2021 Aleksandr Anatolyevich ARTEYEV 1970     Supreme Court of the Republic of Komi 31/05/2021 26/01/2021 31/05/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   61017/21 25/02/2022 Nikita Sergeyevich FEDOROV 1998     Pervomayskiy District Court of Kirov 17/02/2022 09/05/2021 17/02/2022 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   61023/21* 17/02/2022 Yevgeniy Vladimirovich KUZMINYKH 1982     Sovetsk Town Court of the Kirov Region 13/12/2021 10/11/2021 13/12/2021     61081/21 29/11/2021 Vitaliy Valentinovich OVCHINNIKOV 1969     Oktyabrskiy District Court of Arkhangelsk 24/08/2021 03/06/2021 24/08/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   61378/21* 27/11/2021 Aleksandr Leonidovich SAFRONOV 1974     Dzerzhinskiy District Court of Novosibirsk 28/07/2021 12/01/2021 28/07/2021     61384/21* 23/11/2021 Anton Alekseyevich MOKROUSOV 1980     Leninskiy District Court of Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Regional Court (in the later court the applicant participated by means of the video link from the remand prison) 15/06/2021 20/11/2020 30/08/2021     61390/21* 30/11/2021 Maksim Vladimirovich SHADRIN 1990     Dzerzhinskiy District Court of Novosibirsk; Novosibirsk Regional Court (in the later court the applicant participated by means of the video link from the remand prison) 13/09/2021 29/07/2021         13/09/2021     61592/21 07/12/2021 Nikolay Nikolayevich BOGOLYUBOV 2000 Aleksey Igorevich Korneyev Bryansk Leninskiy District Court of Kursk 24/06/2021 09/03/2021 24/06/2021     61654/21* 04/12/2021 Faridun Yatimovich DOSTIYEV 1991     Trusovskoy District Court of Astrakhan, Leninskiy District Court of Astrakhan, Astrakhan Regional Court (in the later court the applicant participated by means of the video link from the remand prison) 08/09/2021 31/08/2019 08/09/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   111/22 22/11/2021 Roman Nikolayevich STARKOV 1993       Justice of the Peace of the 70-th Judicial District of Kirov 03/08/2021 03/08/2021 03/08/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   179/22* 13/12/2021 Denis Aleksandrovich RYZHOV 1987     Supreme Court of the Republic of Komi 15/06/2021 15/06/2021 15/06/2021 Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - van, train, from 28/10/2021 to 20/12/2021, 0.2 ‑ 0.4   sq. m. of personal space, overcrowding, lack of fresh air, insufficient number of sleeping places, no or restricted access to toilet;   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 inadequate conditions of detention during transport   180/22* 07/12/2021 Denis Vladimirovich FADEYEV 2000     Kazan Garrison Military Court 21/06/2021 21/06/2021 21/06/2021 Art. 8 (1) - permanent video surveillance of detainees in pre-trial or post-conviction detention facilities - IZ-1 Republic of Tatarstan, 13/03/2021-16/07/2021, detention in different cells with video surveillance, opposite-sex operators   466/22 30/11/2021 Aleksey Alekseyevich DYUZHEV 1988 Aleksandr Viktorovich Polonskiy Volgograd Dzerzhinskiy District Court of Volgograd   10/03/2021 25/10/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   597/22* 23/11/2021 Albert Dinariyevich SAYFULLIN 1982 Elvira Ilgizovna Khaziyeva Almetyevsk Supreme Court of Russia (in the later court the applicant participated by means of the video link from the remand prison) 02/09/2021 02/09/2021 02/09/2021     613/22* 14/03/2022 Sergey Viktorovich OKHAPKIN 1989     Pervomayskiy District Court of Kirov 07/02/2022 09/03/2022     793/22* 20/12/2021 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich MATYASKIN 1994 Elik Yevgenyevich Abdrashitov Orel Zheleznodorozhnyy District Court of Samara, Sovetskiy District Court of Samara, Vakhitovskiy District Court of Kazan, Novo-Savinovskiy District Court of Kazan 27/07/2021 28/04/2017 27/07/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings;   Art. 5 (3) - excessive length of pre-trial detention - detention from 27/04/2017 to 27/07/2021, collective detention orders; use of assumptions, in the absence of any evidentiary basis, of the risks of absconding or obstructing justice; fragility and repetitiveness of the reasoning employed by the courts as the case progressed; failure to examine the possibility of applying other measures of restraint; persistent reliance, as the case progressed, on charges concerning membership of an organised criminal group; failure to examine the possibility, as the case progressed, of applying other measures to secure attendance at the trial         835/22* 26/11/2021 Denis Gennadyevich KRUGLYANIN 1979     Kirovskiy District Court of Irkutsk, Irkutsk Regional Court 28/11/2017 End date is unknown, placement in metal cage was ongoing on the date when the application was lodged Art. 5 (3) - excessive length of pre-trial detention - detention since 28/10/2017 and ongoing at the time when the application was lodged with the Court, Specific defects: as the case progressed, use of assumptions, in the absence of any evidentiary basis, of the risks of absconding or obstructing justice; fragility and repetitiveness of the reasoning employed by the courts as the case progressed; failure to examine the possibility of applying other measures of restraint   985/22* 15/12/2021 Sergey Vladimirovich YEGOROV 1967 Yelena Nikolayevna Panshina Moscow Moscow City Court 16/06/2021 16/06/2021 16/06/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   1077/22* 15/12/2021 Aleksandr Yuryevich GONCHAROV 1982     Vorkuta Town Court of the Republic of Komi   18/02/2021 29/06/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   2243/22 13/12/2021 Yevgeniy Nikolayevich AGAFONOV 1984     Supreme Court of the Republic of Komi (by way of a video link from the detention facility) 15/06/2021 08/06/2021 15/06/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   2245/22 10/12/2021 Denis Aleksandrovich SOLOVYEV 1982     Syktyvdinskiy District Court of the Republic of Komi 18/06/2021 18/12/2020 18/06/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   2246/22* 13/12/2021 Marat Radifovich KHANNANOV 1987     Privolzhskiy District Court of Kazan 30/09/2021 08/12/2020 30/09/2021     2247/22 21/12/2021 Grigoriy Aleksandrovich ZINOVYEV 1992     Sysolskiy District Court of the Republic of Komi 03/08/2021   Sysolskiy District Court of the Republic of Komi 21/01/2022 26/07/2021       13/10/2021 03/08/2021       21/01/2022 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings