SHCHEPETOV v. RUSSIA - 34635/17 (Judgment : Article 5 - Right to liberty and security : Third Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

��������� Peeter Roosma, President, ��������� Dmitry Dedov, ��������� Andreas Z�nd, judges, and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 34635/17) against the Russian Federation lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) on 28 April 2017 by a Russian national, Mr Grigoriy Vasilyevich Shchepetov, born in 1989 and detained in Naberezhnyye Chelny (�the applicant�);

the decision to give notice of the complaints concerning the allegedly excessive length of the applicant�s pre-trial detention and the restrictions on family visits to the Russian Government (�the Government�), represented by Mr M. Galperin, the then Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights, and lately by Mr M. Vinogradov, his successor in that office to the European Court of Human Rights, and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application;

1.  The present case concerns the allegedly excessive length of the applicant�s pre-trial detention and the restrictions on family visits.