| Applicant name | PONOMAREV AND OTHERS |
| Applicant type | Natural person (prisoner) |
| Number of applicants | 50 |
| Country | Russia |
| Application no. | 12205/18, 13413/18, 18894/18, 26925/18 40655/18, 4881/19, 5291/19, 8739/19 21927/19, 30417/19, 32238/19, 43888/19 57826/19, 64521/19, 5191/20, 5879/20 6588/20, 8864/20, 9971/20, 13147/20 25909/20, 27083/20, 32403/20, 34205/20 2658/21, 8681/21, 20628/21, 32409/21 34680/21, 36406/21, 36524/21, 43710/21 49163/21, 51492/21, 51669/21, 58607/21 4078/22, 7144/22, 17635/22, 21811/22 25229/22, 29351/22, 30067/22, 30978/22 35019/22 |
| Date | 23/11/2023 |
| Judges | Branko Lubarda, President, Armen Harutyunyan, Ana Maria Guerra Martins, |
| Institution | Court |
| Type | Judgment |
| Outcome Art. 8 | Violation |
| Reason | No legal basis; not necessary |
| Type of privacy | Relational privacy |
| Keywords | Family visits in pre-detention |
| Facts of the case | Detention |
| Analysis | Mini judgement in which the Court mainly refers to established case law and finds that the refusals of family visits were not “in accordance with law” and that the physical separation of the applicants from their visitors by means of a glass partition cannot be justified as being “necessary in a democratic society”. Also Violation of 8+14 – discriminatory treatment compared with convicted prisoners as regards duration of short-term family visits and absence of long-term family visits |
| Other Article violation? | No violation 13 ECHR; |
| Damage awarded | 169.000 |
| Documents | Judgment |