Karamov and Others v. Russia

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 3243/08 Radik Davlyatovich KARAMOV against Russia and 4 other applications (see list appended)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 6 May 2014 as a Committee composed of:

Khanlar Hajiyev, President, Julia Laffranque, Erik Møse, judges, and André Wampach, Deuty Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above applications lodged on the dates indicated in the appendix,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

A list of the applicants is set out in the appendix.

The Russian Government (“the Government”) were represented by Mr G. Matyushkin, Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights.

The applicants complained, among other matters, under Article 3 of the Convention about the conditions of their detention in Russian penitentiary facilities.

These complaints were communicated to the Government, who on 24 May 2013 submitted their observations. These submissions were forwarded to the applicants, who were invited to submit their observations in reply.

On various dates the above letters returned to the Court as unclaimed or undeliverable due to a change of the recipients’ addresses.

Although the applicants knew that they had the obligation to inform the Court of any change in their addresses and about any major developments regarding their cases, they did not provide the Court with such information.

THE LAW

According to Article 37 § 1 of the Convention, the Court may strike a case out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that the applicant does not intend to pursue the application.

The Court considers that the applicants’ failure to inform the Registry about the change of their addresses despite such explicit obligation highlighted in the Registry’s letters must be taken to indicate that they have lost interest in the proceedings, within the meaning of Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention. Furthermore, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 in fine , the Court finds no special circumstances regarding respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and its Protocols which require the continued examination of these cases.

In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court unanimously

Decides to join the applications;

Decides to strike them out of its list of cases.

André Wampach Khanlar Hajiyev Deputy Registrar President

Appendix

No

Application No

Lodged on

Applicant

Date of birth

Place of residence

3243/08

01/11/2007

Radik Davlyatovich KARAMOV

06/10/1971

Perm

16222/09

04/05/2009

Sergey Vladimirovich GERMANOV

17/01/1965

Uryupinsk

34359/12

10/01/2012

Oleg Aleksandrovich KITAYEV

11/08/1969

Voronezh

34579/12

23/10/2011

Yuriy Alekseyevich KUZIN

12/04/1968

Klekotki

71657/12

09/12/2009

Eduard Valeryevich ZHERNAKOV

24/09/1969

Tver