RESIN v. RUSSIA - 9798/12 (Judgment : Prohibition of torture : Third Section Committee)

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

��������� Darian Pavli, President, ��������� Dmitry Dedov, ��������� Peeter Roosma, judges, and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,

the applications (nos. 9798/12 , 19897/15, 50779/16, 38642/17 and 15031/18 ) 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�) by Russian national, Mr Andrey Igorevich Resin (�the applicant�), on 23 November 2011, 5 April 2015, 5 August 2016, 16 April 2017 and 9 March 2018;

the decision to give notice to the Russian Government (�the Government�) of the complaints concerning conditions of detention and transport, handcuffing, absence at hearings in civil proceedings, prison uniform and confidentiality of telephone conversations, lack of effective remedies and discrimination and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the applications;

The case concerns various limitations imposed on the applicant, life prisoner serving his sentence in a correctional colony, in particular, conditions of detention and transport, his routine handcuffing and using a guard dog, absence at hearings in civil proceedings, obligation to wear prison uniform and discrimination, confidentiality of telephone conversations with his representatives before domestic courts and the Court and lack of effective remedies.