Judgment 5214/18

Applicant name SULEYMANOV AND OTHERS
Applicant type prisoner; natural person
Number of applicants 24
CountryRussia
Application no. 5214/18 44704/18 48791/18 50193/18 58880/18 8940/19 14931/19 28944/19 38672/19 43577/19 46700/19 47517/19 55063/19 3372/20 4294/21 44633/21 45683/21 49549/21 53523/21 55098/21 58660/21 924/22 3193/22 16802/22
Date 06/06/2024
Judges Lətif Hüseynov, President,
 Ivana Jelić,
 Erik Wennerström
Institution Court
Type Judgment
Outcome Art. 8 violation
Reason mini-judgment
Type of privacy Informational privacy; locational privacy; professional privacy
Keywords
Facts of the case Art. 8 (1) – permanent video surveillance of detainees in pre-trial or post-conviction detention facilities – IZ-Moscow, since 23/01/2020 and possibly ongoing as of 16/09/2022

Art. 8 (1) – unlawful search – “Urgent” search of the applicant’s flat on 19/02/2018, Investigator of the Moscow City Investigative Committee; 20/02/2018, two-tier judicial review of the lawfulness of the search, final decision taken by the Moscow City Court on 10/10/2018; no special safeguards for lawyers: no special instructions by a judge regarding privileged materials, no adequate and sufficient safeguards against abuse: broad terms/wide content and scope of the search warrant (objects and documents not specific enough to restrict police’s discretion),
Analysis
Other Article violation? 3, 5, 6 and 10
Damage awarded 19500 (2 applicants)
Documents Judgment