Published on 22 July 2024
FIRST SECTION
Applications nos. 21262/22 and 6979/23
Elnur MAMMADOV against Azerbaijan
and Ayven SHAMURADOV against Azerbaijan
lodged on 13 April 2022 and 2 February 2023 respectively
communicated on 2 July 2024
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The present applications concern the restrictions imposed by the prosecuting authorities on the applicants’ right to visits by, and telephone conversations with, their family members and the outside world, while detained in the pre-trial detention facility.
Relying on Article 8 of the Convention, the applicants complain that the restrictions imposed on them were unjustified and disproportionate.
QUESTION TO THE PARTIES
Has there been an interference with the applicants’ right to respect for their private and family life or correspondence, within the meaning of Article 8 § 1 of the Convention, on account of the restrictions placed on their rights by the corresponding decisions of the prosecuting authorities?
If so, was that interference in accordance with the law and necessary in terms of Article 8 § 2 (see Mirgadirov v. Azerbaijan and Turkey, no. 62775/14, §§ 115-25, 17 September 2020; Bogusław Krawczak v. Poland, no. 24205/06, § 112, 31 May 2011; and Andrey Smirnov v. Russia, no. 43149/10, § 38, 13 February 2018)?