Published on 15 April 2024
THIRD SECTION
Application no. 5167/20
A.N.
against Russia
(see table appended)
PROCEDURAL INFORMATION
Following a preliminary examination of the admissibility of the application on 21 March 2024, the Court decided, under Rule 54 § 2 (b) of the Rules of Court, that notice of the application should be given to the Government of Russia.
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 application concern complaints raised under Article 6 § 1 and Article 13 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 relating to non-enforcement or delayed enforcement of domestic decisions and the lack of any effective remedy in domestic law which are the subject of well-established case law of the Court (see Gerasimov and Others v. Russia, nos. 29920/05 and 10 others, 1 July 2014).
APPENDIX – STATEMENT OF FACTS
Application raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 and Article 13 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1
(non-enforcement or delayed enforcement of domestic decisions and the lack of any effective remedy in domestic law)
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Representative’s name and location
Relevant domestic decision
Start date of non-enforcement period
End date of non-enforcement period
Length of enforcement proceedings
Domestic order (in euros)
Compensation proceedings
Name of the court
Date of the judgment
Аward
Other complaints under well-established case-law
5167/20*
10/01/2020
Anonymat
A.N.
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Vinogradov
Kostroma
Sverdlovskiy District Court of Kostroma, 31/07/2015
21/09/2016
16/09/2022
5 year(s) and
11 month(s) and
27 day(s)
560
Sverdlovskiy District Court of Kostroma, 31/07/2015
Claim under the Compensation Act, Supreme Court of Russia, 18/02/2021 - RUB 50,000 (about EUR 560) recovered
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law - in respect of the complaint under Article 3 about informal hierarchy in Russian prisons,
Art. 3 - inhuman and degrading treatment of "outcast" inmates as a result of segregation, humiliating practices and abuse in their daily life while in detention, heightened risk of inter-prisoner violence (prison hierarchy) - The applicant complains of the informal hierarchy in IK-1 in Kostroma Region) from 23/01/2018 to 29/05/2020 and his discrimination by his inmates and personnel of the detention facilities because of his status as “outcast”. In particular, he claims that he was forced to clean toilets and was prevented from using the same facilities as his inmates belonging to the privileged group of prisoners