FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 34429/22
Adrian NĂSTASE against Romania
and 9 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 4 December 2025 as a Committee composed of:
Anne Louise Bormann, President,
Sebastian Răduleţu,
András Jakab, judges,
and Viktoriya Maradudina, 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 and the relevant details are set out in the appendix.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 3 of the Convention concerning the inadequate conditions of detention and the lack of any effective remedy in domestic law, were communicated to the Romanian Government, who submitted observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicants, who were invited to submit their own observations (see the appended table for the relevant dates). No reply was received by the Court.
By letters sent by registered post, the applicants were notified that the time allowed for the submission of their observations 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. The registered letters were either received by the applicants or the applicants’ relatives or were returned to the Court (see details in the appended table).
THE LAW
Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single judgment.
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 8 January 2026.
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Viktoriya Maradudina Anne Louise Bormann
Acting Deputy Registrar President
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
Year of birth
Date of the
applicant’s last
letter to the Court
Date of sending
Government’s
observations to
the applicant
Time-limit for
submission of response
by the applicant
Date of the Court’s
registered letter
Date of receipt/return of the registered letter
34429/22
06/09/2022
Adrian NĂSTASE
2000
21/10/2022
21/01/2025
04/03/2025
12/03/2025
16/05/2025
25/04/2025
Retuned to the Court as applicant is no longer in Giurgiu Prison
16/06/2025
Illegible signature
47649/22
20/12/2022
Iulian-Gabriel MARIN
1996
04/04/2023
06/02/2025
20/03/2025
03/04/2025
22/04/2025
Signed for by prison representative
48921/22
07/11/2022
Andrei GROSU
1973
15/02/2023
06/02/2025
20/03/2025
03/04/2025
Handed over on 17/04/2025 (according to the Romanian Post Tracking System)
51433/22
28/11/2022
Adrian-Bogdan RUSU
1987
28/03/2025
06/02/2025
20/03/2025
03/04/2025
24/04/2025
Signed by the applicant
52180/22
05/01/2023
Grigore CIOTOR
1990
12/01/2023
06/02/2025
20/03/2025
03/04/2025
24/04/2025
Returned to the Court as applicant was released
53221/22
19/12/2022
Robert RUS
1988
12/01/2024
06/02/2025
20/03/2025
03/04/2025
16/05/2025
12/05/2025
Returned to the Court as applicant is no longer in Giurgiu Prison
19/06/2025
Returned to the Court as “moved from town” (according to the Romanian Post Tracking System)
53287/22
09/01/2023
Leonard-Nicuşor IVĂNUŞ
1987
16/01/2023
06/02/2025
20/03/2025
03/04/2025
23/04/2025
Illegible signature
53705/22
23/12/2022
Cristian-Rene ROŞU
1985
24/03/2023
06/02/2025
20/03/2025
03/04/2025
03/06/2025
Returned as “unclaimed”
55020/22
21/11/2022
Teodor-Mina MARIN
1995
03/01/2023
06/02/2025
20/03/2025
03/04/2025
22/04/2025
Signed for by prison representative
57716/22
14/02/2023
Mihai-Alin BRICEAG
1988
20/02/2023
06/02/2025
20/03/2025
03/04/2025
Handed over on 22/04/2025 (according to the Romanian Post Tracking System)
06/08/2025
Returned as “unclaimed”