Communicated on 14 January 2019
FIFTH SECTION
Application no. 10444/13
Andrey Aleksandrovich YELNIK
against Ukraine
lodged on 29 January 2013
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the length of the applicant’s pre-trial detention (Article 5 § 3 of the Convention concerning). The applicant was held in custody from 24 September 2008 to 21 May 2010 - 1 year, 7 months and 26 days - and from 29 March 2012 to 12 March 2013 - 11 months and 13 days. Between 21 May 2010 and 29 March 2012 the applicant was detained on the basis of his conviction by a decision of 21 May 2010 of the Tzentralno-Miskyy Local Court of Gorlivka which sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment.
QUESTION tO THE PARTIES
Was the length of the applicant’s pre-trial detention in breach of the “reasonable time” requirement of Article 5 § 3 of the Convention?
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