GAVRILOVA v. RUSSIA - 52431/07 (Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction) : Court (Third Section Committee))

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

��������� Helena J�derblom, President, ��������� Dmitry Dedov, ��������� Branko Lubarda, judges, and Fatoş Aracı, Deputy Section Registrar,

The case originated in an application (no. 52431/07 ) 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, Ms Olga Aleksandrovna Gavrilova (�the applicant�), on 29 November 2007.

The applicant was represented by Mr A. Ryzhov and Ms O. Sadovskaya, lawyers of the Committee Against Torture (later known as the Committee for the Prevention of Torture), an NGO based in Nizhniy Novgorod. The Russian Government (�the Government�) were represented by Mr G. Matyushkin, Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights.

. The applicant alleged, in particular, that the conditions of her detention had been appalling, that she had had no effective domestic remedies in this respect, that her detention on remand had lasted unreasonably long, and that there had been a hindrance with her right to individual petition.