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     13567/13* 16/02/2013 Vasiliy Vladimirovich BURKOV 1972     Kurgan City Court, Kurgan Regional Court 24/02/2015 16/07/2014 24/02/2015 Art. 5 (3) - lack of relevant and sufficient reasons for detention - Charges of fraud, intentional bankruptcy and money laundering. The applicant was held in detention during two periods: from 05/09/2011 to 20/12/2012 and from 16/07/2014 to 24/02/2015. In between he was released on bail. Specific defects: fragility of the reasons used by the courts to extend the applicant’s detention; failure to examine alternative measures to detention; lack of due diligence on the part of the domestic courts.     9352/21* 17/05/2021 Yevgeniy Vladimirovich PETUKHOV 1988     Tsentralniy District Court of Krasnoyarsk, Leninskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk, Sverdlovskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk 17/11/2020 10/04/2020 17/11/2020 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings     13036/21 25/01/2021 Maksim Vladislavovich POLSKIY 1992     Krasnoyarsk Regional Court 12/11/2020 12/11/2020 12/11/2020 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings     14407/21 01/02/2021 Sergey Aleksandrovich SVETTSOV 1979     Justice of the Peace of the 2nd Court Circuit of the Dovolenskiy Court; District of the Novosibirsk Region, Dovolenskiy District Court of Novosibirsk Region 26/08/2020 03/02/2020 26/08/2020       14426/21* 15/02/2021 Ilya Olegovich SAFRONOV 1986     Severodvinsk Town Court of the Arkhangelsk Region, Arkhangelsk Regional Court 06/01/2021 End date is unknown as the placement in a metal cage was still ongoing on the date of lodging the application with the Court       19458/21 20/08/2021 Dmitriy Sergeyevich SEMENOV 1988     Oktyabrskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk 05/03/2021 20/08/2020 05/03/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings     22929/21 12/04/2021 Svyatoslav Leonidovich GREKHOV 1990     Oktyabrskiy District Court of Arkhangelsk 10/02/2021 01/03/2020 10/02/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings     24421/21* 06/05/2021 Abdul Vakhab Abazovich ISAYEV 1959   Anatoliy Viktorovich KURAGIN 1977 Vladimir Gennadyevich Dvoryak Abakan Abakan Town Court (both applicants), Supreme Court of the Republic of Khakassia (both applicants), Eighth Cassation Court (Mr Kuragin) 17/11/2020 04/06/2019 17/11/2020       28516/21* 19/04/2021 Ilya Aleksandrovich SHAKURSKIY 1996 Eldar Seifovich Garoz Moscow Privolzhskiy Circuit Military Court, Appellate Military Court (The applicant was held in a glass cabin measuring less than 6 sq. m. in cramped conditions with six co-defendants) 20/10/2020 01/05/2019 20/10/2020 Art. 6 (1) - and Art. 6 (3) (d) - unfair trial in view of restrictions on the right to examine witnesses - anonymised witness "Kabanov" described the applicant as a terrorist, but the applicant was deprived of an opportunity to examine the witness in person in the Privolzhskiy Circuit Military Court (see Asani v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 2018, § 37). Requests by the defence were ignored. The judgment was delivered on 10/02/2020. Art. 6 (1) - lack of fair hearing - use of testimony of third persons who complained about ill-treatment and argued during the applicant’s trial that their pre-trial inculpating statements had been made under duress.   42906/21 15/12/2021 Aleksey Sergeyevich SALKOVSKIY 1979     Tsentralniy District Court of Krasnoyarsk, Berezovskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk, Leninskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk 06/10/2021 21/05/2020 06/10/2021     43404/21 07/12/2021 Ivan Aleksandrovich KOKOVKIN 1985     Ramenskoye Town Court of the Moscow Region 13/07/2021 14/06/2021 13/07/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   43953/21 16/08/2021 Yevgeniy Vladimirovich MELENTYEV 1977     Justice of the Peace of the Oktyabrskiy Court District of Syktyvkar 16/07/2021 16/07/2021 16/07/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   44403/21 20/08/2021 Maksim Fernandovich BRUNO GARSIYA 1978     Zubovo-Polyanskiy District Court of the Republic of Mordovia 24/05/2021 24/05/2021 24/05/2021     44404/21 23/08/2021 Pavel Aleksandrovich SITNIKOV 1977     Pervomayskiy District Court of Kirov   16/07/2021 End date is unknown as the placement in a metal cage was still ongoing on the date of lodging the application with the Court Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings       45366/21 24/08/2021 Alla Anatolyevna BORISOVA 1974 Aleksandr Viktorovich Polonskiy Volgograd Voroshilovskiy District Court of Volgograd, Volgograd Regional Court (participated in the latter court via the video link from the remand prison) 24/06/2021 06/12/2018 24/06/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings and inadequate conditions of detention during transport;   Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - from IZ-1 Volgograd to IK-50 Krasnoyarsk Region between 11/08/2021 and 15/09/2021 (overcrowding, lack of or poor quality of bedding and bed linen, lack of fresh air, inadequate temperature, lack of or insufficient natural light, lack of or insufficient electric light, no or restricted access to toilet, no or restricted access to running water).   46064/21 30/07/2021 Dmitriy Viktorovich KROKHIN 1984     Usinsk Town Court of the Republic of Komi 25/05/2021 10/03/2021 25/05/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   46216/21* 30/07/2021 Vladimir Vitalyevich NIKIFOROV 1977     Slobodskoy Court Circuit of the Ezhvinskiy District of Syktyvkar, Ezhvinskiy District Court of Syktyvkar 25/02/2021 26/10/2020 25/02/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   46506/21 23/08/2021 Maksim Aleksandrovich PETIN 1987     Dovolenskiy District Court of Novosibirsk Region, Novosibirsk Regional Court 31/05/2021 02/06/2020 31/05/2021     48355/21 06/09/2021 Maksim Ivanovich BYRKANOV 1995       Sosnogorsk Town Court of the Republic of Komi 16/04/2021 19/08/2020 16/04/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   48356/21 14/09/2021 Aleksey Yevgenyevich SHEMYAKIN 1991     Fokinskiy District Court of Bryansk 30/06/2021 16/03/2021 30/06/2021     49635/21 08/11/2021 Andrey Aleksandrovich BAKSHAYEV 1982     Sloboskoy District Court of the Kirov Region 13/10/2021 12/06/2021 13/10/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   49689/21 08/11/2021 Mikhail Vladimirovich ANTONOV 1974     Kirovskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk   14/10/2021 End date is unknown as the placement in a metal cage was still ongoing on the date of lodging the application with the Court     49940/21 21/02/2022 Aleksandr Vladimirovich BELYASHOV 1976     Kirovskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Regional Court (participated in the hearings before the latter court via a video link from the remand prison) 18/11/2021 01/07/2021 18/11/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   50032/21* 13/12/2021 Aleksandr Mikhaylovich KHARIN 1978     Justice of the Peace of the Vuktylskiy Court Circuit of the Republic of Komi, Vuktyl Town Court of the Republic of Komi 26/07/2021 26/04/2021 26/07/2021 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;   Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - van, single-prisoner cell,   0,5 sq. m. of personal space, 7 trips, duration 4-5 hours, transport involved ferry crossing, during the period: 26/04/-26/07/2021   50442/21 21/09/2021 Maksim Aleksandrovich VIDERGOLD 1981     Oktyabrskiy District Court of Penza, Penza Regional Court (via a video link from the correctional colony) 23/11/2021     14/04/2021 23/11/2021     50563/21 22/09/2021 Afanasiy Aleksandrovich VASILYEV 1976     Dzerzhinskiy District Court of Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Regional Court (participated in the hearings before the latter court via video link from the detention facility) 14/04/2021 05/03/2020 14/04/2021     51382/21 15/03/2022 Andrey Yuryevich YEFIMOV 1984     Starorusskiy District Court of the Novgorod Region   10/02/2022 End date is unknown as the placement in a metal cage was still ongoing on the date of lodging the application with the Court Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   52784/21 23/09/2021 Yevgeniy Andreyevich ABRAMENKO 1993     Tatarskiy District Court of the Novosibirsk Region 24/06/2021 13/01/2021 24/06/2021     56659/21 27/12/2021 Aleksandr Nikolayevich PONOMAREV 1978     Chitinskiy District Court of the Zabaykalsk Region 15/09/2021 05/11/2020 15/09/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   60209/21* 25/11/2021 Aleksey Aleksandrovich GORELOV 1981     Moscow City Court 27/05/2021 29/04/2021 27/05/2021     1094/22* 19/11/2021 Sergey Valentinovich KHAYLOV 1986 Andrey Golubenko Nea Skioni The Second Appeal Court of General Jurisdiction (by way of a video link) 14/09/2021 14/09/2021 14/09/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   9751/22* 14/01/2022 Valeriy Anatolyevich POLOVINKIN 1961 Sabir Akber Ogly Mamedov St Petersburg Primorskiy District Court of St Petersburg, Vsevolozhsk Town Court of the Leningrad Region, Leningrad Regional Court 22/11/2021 23/01/2020 22/11/2021 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 permanent video surveillance in detention facilities;   Art. 8 (1) - permanent video surveillance of detainees in pre-trial or post-conviction detention facilities - IVS Vsevolozhsk Town of the Leningrad Region (between 11/02/2021 and 22/12/2021)   9968/22 15/01/2022 Aleksandr Yevgenyevich ASEYEV 1984     Novokuybyshevsk Town Court of the Samara Region 18/11/2021 18/11/2021 18/11/2021     12147/22 24/01/2022 Bogdan Romanovich SPITSYN 1985     Priluzskiy District Court of the Republic of Komi 20/10/2021 18/06/2021 20/10/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   12702/22* 03/02/2022 Vadim Nikolayevich YELKIN 1992     Oktyabrskiy District Court of Kirov, Leninskiy District Court of Kirov 15/12/2021 28/09/2021 15/12/2021     12703/22 12/01/2022 Vladimir Mikhaylovich BUMBU 1989     Onega Town Court of the Arkhangelsk Region (by way of a video link from the correctional colony) 21/12/2021 25/11/2021 21/12/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   13786/22* 10/02/2022 Yaroslav Nikolayevich POLIIT 1991     Pervomayskiy District Court of Kirov 16/12/2021 24/08/2021 16/12/2021 Art. 3 - inadequate conditions of detention during transport - van, 0.5 m x 0.8 m single-prisoner cubicle, lack of seat belts, no or restricted access to toilet, lack of fresh air   13868/22 18/02/2022 Konstantin Petrovich IVCHENKO 1970 Andrey Albertovich Bityutskiy Khabarovsk Pozharskiy District Court of the Primorye Region 09/02/2022 24/06/2020 09/02/2022 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   13971/22 02/02/2022 Eduard Yevgenyevich FILIPPOV 1978     Ukhta Town Court of the Republic of Komi, Sosnogorsk Town Court of the Republic of Komi 03/12/2021 20/10/2021 03/12/2021 Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of placement in a metal cage during court hearings   13973/22 14/02/2022 Denis Vyacheslavovich PROKHOROV 1982     Bolotninskiy District Court of the Novosibirsk Region 19/11/2021 22/05/2021 19/11/2021