X AND Y v. RUSSIA - 43411/06 (Judgment : Prohibition of torture : Third Section Committee)

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

��������� Alena Pol�čkov�, President, ��������� Dmitry Dedov, ��������� Gilberto Felici, judges, and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 43411/06 ) 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 two Russian nationals, Mr X (�the first applicant�) and his mother Ms Y (�the second applicant�), on 18 October 2006;

the decision to give notice to the Russian Government (�the Government�) of the complaints concerning the first applicant�s unlawful detention, his ill-treatment and the lack at his disposal of effective domestic remedies to complaint about those grievances;

The case concerns the first applicant�s complaints in respect of his unrecorded detention and subsequent ill-treatment at the hands of the police and the lack of an effective investigation in respect of those matters.