THIRD SECTION
CASE OF OGLY AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA
(Applications nos. 49998/17 and 8 others -
see appended list)
JUDGMENT
STRASBOURG
26 July 2018
This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision.
In the case of Ogly and Others v. Russia,
The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:
Alena Poláčková, President,
Dmitry Dedov,
Jolien Schukking, judges,
and Liv Tigerstedt Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 5 July 2018,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in applications against Russia lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) on the various dates indicated in the appended table.
2. The applications were communicated to the Russian Government (“the Government”).
THE FACTS
3. The list of applicants and the relevant details of the applications are set out in the appended table.
4. The applicants complained of the excessive length of their pre-trial detention. In application no. 53125/17, the applicant also raised a complaint under Article 5 § 4 of the Convention.
THE LAW
I. JOINDER OF THE APPLICATIONS
5. Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single judgment.
II. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 5 § 3 OF THE CONVENTION
6. The applicants complained principally that their pre-trial detention had been unreasonably long. They relied on Article 5 § 3 of the Convention, which read as follows:
“3. Everyone arrested or detained in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 (c) of this Article shall be ... entitled to trial within a reasonable time or to release pending trial. Release may be conditioned by guarantees to appear for trial.”
7. The Court observes that the general principles regarding the right to trial within a reasonable time or to release pending trial, as guaranteed by Article 5 § 3 of the Convention, have been stated in a number of its previous judgments (see, among many other authorities, Kudła v. Poland [GC], no. 30210/96, § 110, ECHR 2000‑XI, and McKay v. the United Kingdom [GC], no. 543/03, §§ 41-44, ECHR 2006‑X, with further references).
8. In the leading case of Dirdizov v. Russia, no. 41461/10, 27 November 2012, the Court already found a violation in respect of issues similar to those in the present case.
9. Having examined all the material submitted to it, including the Government’ argument of non-exhaustion related to application no. 49998/17, the Court has not found any fact or argument capable of persuading it to reach a different conclusion on the admissibility and merits of these complaints. Having regard to its case-law on the subject, including that concerning exhaustion of domestic remedies in the length-of-detention cases (see Polonskiy v. Russia, no. 30033/05, §§ 131-32, 19 March 2009), the Court dismisses the Government’s objection and considers that in the instant case the length of the applicants’ pre-trial detention was excessive.
10. These complaints are therefore admissible and disclose a breach of Article 5 § 3 of the Convention.
III. OTHER ALLEGED VIOLATIONS UNDER WELL-ESTABLISHED CASE-LAW
11. In application no. 53125/17, the applicant also submitted a complaint under Article 5 § 4 of the Convention. This complaint is not manifestly ill‑founded within the meaning of Article 35 § 3 (a) of the Convention, nor is it inadmissible on any other ground. Accordingly, it must be declared admissible. Having examined all the material before it, the Court concludes that it also discloses a violation of the Convention in the light of its findings in Zubkov and Others v. Russia, nos. 29431/05 and 2 others, §§ 146-149, 7 November 2017, dealing with the lack of speedy review of the detention matters.
IV. APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 41 OF THE CONVENTION
12. Article 41 of the Convention provides:
“If the Court finds that there has been a violation of the Convention or the Protocols thereto, and if the internal law of the High Contracting Party concerned allows only partial reparation to be made, the Court shall, if necessary, afford just satisfaction to the injured party.”
13. Regard being had to the documents in its possession and to its case‑law (see, in particular, Pastukhov and Yelagin v. Russia, no. 55299/07, 19 December 2013), the Court considers it reasonable to award the sums indicated in the appended table.
14. The Court considers it appropriate that the default interest rate should be based on the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank, to which should be added three percentage points.
FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT, UNANIMOUSLY,
1. Decides to join the applications;
2. Declares the applications admissible;
3. Holds that these applications disclose a breach of Article 5 § 3 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of pre-trial detention;
4. Holds that there has been a violation of the Convention as regards the other complaint raised under well-established case-law of the Court (see appended table);
5. Holds
(a) that the respondent State is to pay the applicants, within three months, the amounts indicated in the appended table, to be converted into the currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable at the date of settlement;
(b) that from the expiry of the above-mentioned three months until settlement simple interest shall be payable on the above amounts at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points.
Done in English, and notified in writing on 26 July 2018, pursuant to Rule 77 §§ 2 and 3 of the Rules of Court.
Liv TigerstedtAlena Poláčková
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 5 § 3 of the Convention
(excessive length of pre-trial detention)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant name
Date of birth
Period of detention
Length of detention
Courts which
issued detention
orders/examined
appeals
Specific defects
Other complaints under well-established case-law
Amount awarded for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses
per applicant
(in euros)[1]
49998/17
30/06/2017
Kristina Nikolayevna Ogly
18/09/1985
30/11/2013 to
16/02/2015
1 year and 2 months and 18 days
22/03/2016 to
16/06/2017
1 year and 2 months and 26 days
Sovetskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk / Presidium of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court / Krasnoyarsk Regional Court
- collective detention orders; failure to assess the applicant’s personal situation reducing the risks of reoffending, colliding or absconding, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to examine the possibility of applying other measures of restraint, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to conduct the proceedings with due diligence during the period of detention.
2,600
50053/17
21/06/2017
Konstantin Andreyevich Kuznetsov
26/08/1987
30/06/2015
pending
More than
2 years and 11 months and 9 days
Sovetskiy District Court of Ulan-Ude / Lipetsk Regional Court
- collective detention orders; failure to assess the applicant’s personal situation reducing the risks of reoffending, colliding or absconding, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to examine the possibility of applying other measures of restraint, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to conduct the proceedings with due diligence during the period of detention.
3,000
53125/17
26/06/2017
Dmitriy Shamilyevich Khismatulin
01/10/1981
01/04/2015 to
03/02/2017
1 year and 10 months and 3 days
Oktyabrskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk / Yemelyanovskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk / Krasnoyarsk Regional Court
- collective detention orders; failure to assess the applicant’s personal situation reducing the risks of reoffending, colliding or absconding, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to examine the possibility of applying other measures of restraint, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to conduct the proceedings with due diligence during the period of detention
Art. 5 (4) - excessive length of judicial review of detention - The applicant’s appeal against the court decision on detention extension dated 02/12/2016 was examined by the regional court only on 10/01/2017.
2,700
53511/17
10/07/2017
Aleksey Sergeyevich Ignatovich
22/06/1988
05/03/2015 to
13/03/2017
2 years and 9 days
Sovetskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk / Krasnoyarsk Regional Court
- collective detention orders; failure to assess the applicant’s personal situation reducing the risks of reoffending, colliding or absconding, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to examine the possibility of applying other measures of restraint, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to conduct the proceedings with due diligence during the period of detention.
2,100
68702/17
08/08/2017
Andrey Sergeyevich Morozov
06/08/1976
03/04/2013 to
05/02/2018
4 years and 10 months and 3 days
Supreme Court of the Tatarstan Republic
- collective detention orders; failure to assess the applicant’s personal situation reducing the risks of reoffending, colliding or absconding, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to examine the possibility of applying other measures of restraint, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to conduct the proceedings with due diligence during the period of detention.
5,100
68989/17
07/08/2017
Maksim Aleksandrovich Fandeyev
20/11/1991
19/06/2013 to
01/02/2016
2 years and 7 months and 14 days
21/02/2017 to
01/02/2018
11 months and 12 days
Sovetskiy District Court of Krasnoyarsk / Krasnoyarsk Regional Court
- fragility of the reasons employed by the courts; use of assumptions, in the absence of any evidentiary basis, of the risks of absconding or obstructing justice; failure to assess the applicant’s personal situation reducing the risks of reoffending, colliding or absconding; failure to examine the possibility of applying other measures of restraint; - failure to conduct the proceedings with due diligence during the period of detention.
3,700
69033/17
12/09/2017
Denis Aleksandrovich Krasnopevtsev
11/02/1984
23/01/2017 to
14/11/2017
9 months and 23 days
Petrozavodsk Town Court of the Karelia Republic / Supreme Court of the Karelia Republic
-failure to assess the applicant’s personal situation reducing the risks of reoffending, colliding or absconding, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to examine the possibility of applying other measures of restraint, particularly in view of the length and stage of the criminal proceedings; failure to conduct the proceedings with due diligence during the period of detention.
1,000
70474/17
19/09/2017
Yevgeniy Viktorovich Paramonov
20/07/1978
25/04/2014 to
11/07/2017
3 years and 2 months and 17 days
Kirovskiy District Court of St Petersburg / Kolpinskiy District Court of St Petersburg /
St Petersburg City Court
- fragility of the reasons employed by the courts, as the case progressed; failure to examine the possibility of applying other measures of restraint, as the case progressed; failure to conduct the proceedings with due diligence during the period of detention.
3,300
71637/17
18/09/2017
Maksim Aleksandrovich Muchkov
02/02/1991
27/09/2013 to
08/06/2017
3 years and 8 months and 13 days
Yemelyanovskiy Distrit Court of the Krasnoyarsk Region / Tsentralniy District Court of Krasnoyarsk / Beryozovskiy District Court of the Krasnoyarsk Region / Krasnoyarsk Regional Court
- collective detention orders; fragility of the reasons employed by the courts, as the case progressed; failure to examine the possibility of applying other measures of restraint, as the case progressed; failure to conduct the proceedings with due diligence during the period of detention.
3,900
[1]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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