ROMANOV v. UKRAINE - 63782/11 (Judgment : Prohibition of torture : Fifth Section Committee)

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

��������� Mārtiņ� Mits, President, ��������� Ganna Yudkivska, ��������� Lәtif H�seynov, judges, and Anne-Marie Dougin, Acting Deputy Section Registrar ,

The case originated in an application (no. 63782/11 ) against Ukraine 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 Ilya Eduardovich Romanov (�the applicant�), on 30 December 2005.

The applicant was initially represented by Mr V. Chernikov, who was succeeded by Mr V. Komarov, both lawyers practising in Moscow. The Ukrainian Government (�the Government�) were represented by their Agent, most recently Mr I. Lishchyna.

On 9 February 2012 the Government were given notice of the applicant�s complaints concerning the conditions of his detention in Odessa SIZO and conditions of his transfer to Ivanychy Prison, the right to have adequate facilities for the preparation of his defence and right to effective participation in person and legal representation in his criminal trial, his conviction for his political beliefs, and the lack of effective remedies for his complaints about the conditions of his detention and transfer.