CASE OF SVINARENKO AND SLYADNEV v. RUSSIA
Hearing: Svinarenko and Slyadnev v. Russia (nos. 32541/08 and 43441/08) (Grand Chamber Judgment hearing, 2013-09-18 00:00:00)
Application no.: 43441/08
Document type: GRANDCHAMBER
Document date: 2014-07-17 00:00:00
ECLI: ECLI:CE:ECHR:2014:0717JUD003254108
Respondent state: RUS
Articles of the Convention: 3;5;5-3;6;6-1;34;35;35-1;41
Judges: Anatoly Kovler;Dean Spielmann;Dmitry Dedov;Elisabeth Steiner;George Nicolaou;Guido Raimondi;Helen Keller;Helena Jäderblom;Ineta Ziemele;Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre;Ján Šikuta;Johannes Silvis;Josep Casadevall;Julia Laffranque;Khanlar Hajiyev;Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos;Luis López Guerra;Mark Villiger;Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska;Peer Lorenzen;Vincent A. De Gaetano
Represented by: PALCHINSKII V. ; PLOTNIKOV E. ; TAYSAEVA V.
Strasbourg case-law cited: Allen v. the United Kingdom [GC], no. 25424/09, § 94, ECHR 2013;Ashot Harutyunyan v. Armenia, no. 34334/04, 15 June 2010;Atanasov v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, no. 22745/06, § 31, 17 February 2011;Blake v. the United Kingdom, no. 68890/01, § 45, 26 September 2006;Borgers v. Belgium, 30 October 1991, § 24, Series A no. 214 B;Cyprus v. Turkey [GC], no. 25781/94, § 104, ECHR 2001 IV;De Cubber v. Belgium, 26 October 1984, § 26, Series A no. 86;El-Masri v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [GC], no. 39630/09, § 202, ECHR 2012;Erdoğan Yağız v. Turkey, no. 27473/02, § 37, 6 March 2007;Fetisov and Others v. Russia, nos. 43710/07, 6023/08, 11248/08, 27668/08, 31242/08 and 52133/08, § 75, 17 January 2012;Gorodnitchev v. Russia, no. 52058/99, §§ 101, 102, 105 and 108, 24 May 2007;Insanov v. Azerbaijan, no. 16133/08, §§ 168-170, 14 March 2013;Iordache v. Romania, no. 6817/02, § 50, 14 October 2008;Jalloh v. Germany [GC], no. 54810/00, § 67, ECHR 2006 IX;Kalashnikov v. Russia, no. 47095/99, § 132, ECHR 2002 VI;Khodorkovskiy and Lebedev v. Russia, nos. 11082/06 and 13772/05, 25 July 2013;Khodorkovskiy v. Russia, no. 5829/04, § 125, 31 May 2011;Kudła v. Poland [GC], no. 30210/96, §§ 92-94, ECHR 2000 XI;Kummer v. the Czech Republic, no. 32133/11, § 64, 25 July 2013;Labita v. Italy [GC], no. 26772/95, § 119, ECHR 2000-IV;M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece [GC], no. 30696/09, § 220, ECHR 2011;Mikhail Grishin v. Russia, no. 14807/08, 24 July 2012;Mirosław Garlicki v. Poland, no. 36921/07, §§ 73-75, 14 June 2011;Öcalan v. Turkey [GC], no. 46221/99, § 182, ECHR 2005 IV;Pélissier and Sassi v. France [GC], no. 25444/94, § 67, ECHR 1999 II;Petkov and Others v. Bulgaria (dec.), nos. 77568/01, 178/02 and 505/02, 4 December 2007;Piruzyan v. Armenia, no. 33376/07, 26 June 2012;Pretty v. the United Kingdom, no. 2346/02, § 65, ECHR 2002 III;Ramishvili and Kokhreidze v. Georgia, no. 1704/06, §§ 101-102, 27 January 2009;Raninen v. Finland, 16 December 1997, § 56, Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1997 VIII;Sabri Güneş v. Turkey [GC], no. 27396/06, § 29, 29 June 2012;Sarban v. Moldova, no. 3456/05, § 89, 4 October 2005;Silver and Others v. the United Kingdom, 25 March 1983, §§ 86-87, Series A no. 61;Soering v. the United Kingdom, 7 July 1989, § 87, Series A no. 161;Stanford v. the United Kingdom, 23 February 1994, §§ 27 32, Series A no. 282 A;Titarenko v. Ukraine, no. 31720/02, §§ 58 64, 20 September 2012;Tyrer v. the United Kingdom, 25 April 1978, § 32, Series A no. 26;Ülke v. Turkey (dec.), no. 39437/98, 1 June 2004;V. v. the United Kingdom [GC], no. 24888/94, § 71, ECHR 1999-IX;Varnava and Others v. Turkey [GC], nos. 16064/90, 16065/90, 16066/90, 16068/90, 16069/90, 16070/90, 16071/90, 16072/90 and 16073/90, § 157, ECHR 2009;Zhuk v. Ukraine, no. 45783/05, § 27, 21 October 2010
External sources: Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in conjunction with Article 14 (1) of the Covenant;United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners;Rules of Procedure of international criminal tribunals;Amnesty International Fair Trials Manual
Conclusion: Preliminary objection dismissed (Article 34 - Victim);Violation of Article 3 - Prohibition of torture (Article 3 - Degrading treatment) (Substantive aspect);Violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial (Article 6 - Criminal proceedings;Article 6-1 - Reasonable time);Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - award
Separate opinion: TRUE