BARSUKOV v. RUSSIA - 51252/09 (Judgment : Violation of Article 3 - Prohibition of torture (Article 3 - Degrading treatment Inhuman treatment) (Substantive aspect) Viol...)

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

��������� Branko Lubarda, President, ��������� Pere Pastor Vilanova, ��������� Georgios A. Serghides, judges, and Fatoş Aracı, Deputy Section Registrar,

The case originated in an application (no. 51252/09 ) 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 a Russian national, Mr Vladimir Sergeyevich Barsukov (�the applicant�), on 2 September 2009.

The applicant was represented by Mr K. Kuzminykh, a lawyer practising in St Petersburg. The Russian Government (�the Government�) were represented initially by Mr G. Matyushkin, the Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights, and then by Mr A. Fedorov, Head of the Office of the Representative of the Russian Federation to the Court .

The applicant alleged , in particular, that he did not receive adequate medical treatment in detention and that he had had no effective domestic remedy whereby to complain about the poor quality of his medical treatment whilst in detention.