L.A. AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA - 27368/19 (Judgment : Article 3 - Prohibition of torture : Third Section Committee)

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

the fifteen applications 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 seventeen Russian nationals (�the applicants�), whose personal details are set out in the appendix;

the decision not to have the applicants� names in applications nos. 27368/19, 58127/19 and 11887/21 disclosed;

the decision to give notice of the complaints concerning the State�s obligation to provide protection from domestic violence to the Russian Government (�the Government�), initially represented by Mr M. Galperin, former Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights, and later by his successor in this office, Mr M. Vinogradov, and to declare inadmissible the remainder of applications;

the comments submitted by the human rights organisation Zona Prava and Equal Rights Trust which were granted leave to intervene by the President of the Section;