Published on 11 March 2024
THIRD SECTION
Application no. 40663/18
Vasiliy Viktorovich ULEDEV against Russia
and 3 other applications
(see list appended)
PROCEDURAL INFORMATION
Following a preliminary examination of the admissibility of the applications on 15 February 2024, the Court decided, under Rule 54 § 2 (b) of the Rules of Court, that notice of the applications should be given to the Government of Russia.
In the applications marked by an asterisk, other complaints were raised. This part of the applications has been struck out of the Court’s list of cases or declared inadmissible by the Court, sitting in a single-judge formation, assisted by a rapporteur as provided for in Article 24 § 2 of the Convention.
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 applications concern complaints raised under Article 3 and Article 13 of the Convention relating to inadequate conditions of detention of disabled inmates and the lack of any effective remedy in domestic law which are the subject of well-established case law of the Court (see Topekhin v. Russia, no. 78774/13, §§ 78-88, 10 May 2016, Butrin v. Russia, no. 16179/14, §§ 46‑67, 22 March 2016 and Semikhvostov v. Russia, no. 2689/12, §§ 69-86, 6 February 2014).
APPENDIX – STATEMENT OF FACTS
List of applications raising complaints under Article 3 and Article 13 of the Convention
(inadequate conditions of detention of disabled inmates and the lack of any effective remedy in domestic law)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Year of birth
Representative’s name and location
Type of disability
Detention with disability: facility and periods
Specific grievances
40663/18*
13/08/2018
Vasiliy Viktorovich ULEDEV
Born in 1962
Died in August 2018
Heir:
Anna Vasiliyevna ULEDEVA
2010
left leg amputated
IK-12 Arkhangelsk Region
13/03/2015 to
28/08/2018
3 year(s) and 5 month(s)
and 16 day(s)
colony facilities and transport not suitable for wheelchair-bound inmates
21377/20
30/04/2020
Ivan Ivanovich SEMENOV
1975
lesions in the lower extremities
IK-29 Kirov Region
21/05/2017
pending as of 16/09/2022
5 year(s) and 3 month(s)
and 27 day(s)
no indoor toilet facility, the applicant, suffers from serious impairment of the legs and walks with a stick, has difficulty walking to another building where the lavatory room is situated because his dormitory does not have a lavatory room, there is no central sewage system in the colony; the sewage dump is cleaned by inmates with shovels, including by the applicant, on regular basis
23405/22*
11/03/2022
Pavel Vladimirovich PAVLOV
1967
syringomyelia, myelopathy, hydromyelia, hydrobulbia
IK-63 Sverdlovsk Region
23/04/2021
pending as of 16/09/2022
More than 2 year(s)
and 3 month(s) and 9 day(s)
the applicant is paraplegic. His left elbow joint is dislocated. He cannot remain seated longer than 30 minutes. He has to eat in his bed, shower at the toilet in his cell and wash clothes with one hand. No wheelchair has been provided since September 2021. As a result, he is confined 24 hours a day to his cell. Whenever he needs to get to the medical unit, he has to ask other inmates for help.
48205/22
15/09/2022
Dinmukhamad Ravshanovich YAKUBOV
1984
Aleksey Gennadyevich Kudryavtsev
Kolpino
hemiplegia, left arm and leg
IK-5 Orenburg Region
23/11/2019
pending as of 16/09/2022
2 year(s) and 9 month(s)
and 25 day(s)
unsuitable conditions of detention in view of the applicant’s disability; lack of necessary care and assistance; dependence on inmates’ assistance