FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 37452/15
Nicolae ANUȚIAC against Romania
and 4 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 15 October 2020 as a Committee composed of:
Armen Harutyunyan, President,
Jolien Schukking,
Ana Maria Guerra Martins, judges,
and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The list of the applicants is set out in the appendix.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 3 of the Convention concerning the inadequate conditions of detention were communicated to the Romanian Government (“the Government”), who submitted observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicants, who were invited to submit their own observations.
By letters sent by registered post, the applicants were notified that the period allowed for submission of their observations or of certain requested information had expired (see the appended table for the relevant dates). The applicants’ attention was further drawn to Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, which provides that the Court may strike an application out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that the applicant does not intend to pursue the application.
No reply to these letters has been received by the Court (see details in the appended table) and there are no previous letters from the applicants informing the Court about a change of address. All applicants, except it would seem the applicant in application no. 16056/16, have been released from prison.
THE LAW
Having regard to the similar subject-matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.
In the light of the foregoing, and in the absence of any special circumstances regarding respect for the rights guaranteed by the Convention and the Protocols thereto, the Court, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the applications.
Accordingly, the cases should be struck out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to join the applications;
Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases.
Done in English and notified in writing on 5 November 2020.
Liv TigerstedtArmen Harutyunyan
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 3 of the Convention
(inadequate conditions of detention)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Date of birth
Date of the Court’s
registered letter
Date of receipt of the
registered letter
Time-limit for submission by the applicant of the information requested
Date of the applicant’s
release from prison
37452/15
14/01/2016
Nicolae ANUȚIAC
01/11/1960
05/03/2020
20/03/2020
Illegible signature
16/04/2020
11/11/2017
16056/16
19/04/2016
Albert Fülöp
16/09/1980
13/01/2020
29/01/2020
Illegible signature
24/02/2020
-
44780/16
30/01/2017
Adrian Larionesi
01/09/1977
09/07/2020
02/09/2020
Returned as ‘unclaimed’
20/08/2020
20/01/2018
50514/16
12/09/2016
Dumitru Marian Crețu
23/09/1976
16/06/2020
03/08/2020
Returned as ‘unknown’
28/07/2020
15/01/2019
51689/16
13/02/2017
Octovian Dimitrie Lehaci
10/10/1989
16/06/2020
29/06/2020
Illegible signature
28/07/2020
08/05/2018
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