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FIFTH SECTION
CASE OF KRASYUKOV AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE
(Application no. 64181/09 and 9 others -
see appended list)
JUDGMENT
STRASBOURG
3 May 2018
This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision.
In the case of Krasyukov and Others v. Ukraine,
The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:André Potocki, President,
Síofra O'Leary,
Mārtiņš Mits, judges,
and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
THE FACTS
3. The list of applicants and the relevant details of the applications are set out in the appended table.4. The applicants complained of the excessive length of their pre-trial detention. Some applicants also raised other complaints under the provisions of the Convention.THE LAW
I. JOINDER OF THE APPLICATIONS
5. Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single judgment.II. THE SCOPE OF APPLICATION NO. 71560/13
6. The Court notes that, after communication of the application, the applicant introduced new complaints concerning (i) unfairness of the appellate proceedings which resulted in the adoption of the appellate court's ruling of 7 May 2014, and (ii) the rejection of the applicant's appeal against the first-instance court ruling of 10 September 2014. In particular, the applicant complained under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention that he was not notified about the appellate court's hearing of 7 May 2014 and that it had taken place in his absence. He further invoked Articles 5 § 1 (c) and 18 of the Convention claiming that the appellate court, refusing to consider it on the merits, had rejected his appeal against the ruling of 10 September 2014 by which the first-instance court ordered the applicant to be apprehended and presented to the court for further choice of a preventive measure.7. In the Court's view, these new complaints are not an elaboration of the applicant's original complaints that were communicated to the Government. The Court therefore considers that it is not appropriate now to take these matters up separately (see Piryanik v. Ukraine, no. 75788/01, § 20, 19 April 2005). They will be dealt with in a separate application.III. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 5 § 3 OF THE CONVENTION
8. The applicants complained principally about the excessive length of their pre-trial detention. They relied on Article 5 § 3 of the Convention, which read as follows:Article 5 § 3
"3. Everyone arrested or detained in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 (c) of this Article shall be ... entitled to trial within a reasonable time or to release pending trial. Release may be conditioned by guarantees to appear for trial."
9. The Court observes that the general principles regarding the right to trial within a reasonable time or to release pending trial, as guaranteed by Article 5 § 3 of the Convention, have been stated in a number of its previous judgments (see, among many other authorities, Kudła v. Poland [GC], no. 30210/96, § 110, ECHR 2000-XI, and McKay v. the United Kingdom [GC], no. 543/03, §§ 41-44, ECHR 2006-X, with further references).10. In the leading cases of Kharchenko v. Ukraine (no. 40107/02, 10 February 2011) and Ignatov v. Ukraine (no. 40583/15, 15 December 2016), the Court already found a violation in respect of issues similar to those in the present case.11. Having examined all the material submitted to it, the Court has not found any fact or argument capable of persuading it to reach a different conclusion on the admissibility and merits of these complaints. Having regard to its case-law on the subject, the Court considers that in the instant case the length of the applicants' pre-trial detention was excessive.12. These complaints are therefore admissible and disclose a breach of Article 5 § 3 of the Convention.IV. OTHER ALLEGED VIOLATIONS UNDER WELL-ESTABLISHED CASE-LAW
13. In applications nos. 60859/10, 66440/11, 75007/11, 58383/12, 80605/12, 60962/13, 71560/13 and 77369/16, the applicants submitted other complaints which also raised issues under the Convention, given the relevant well-established case-law of the Court (see appended table). These complaints are not manifestly ill-founded within the meaning of Article 35 § 3 (a) of the Convention, nor are they inadmissible on any other ground. Accordingly, they must be declared admissible. Having examined all the material before it, the Court concludes that they also disclose violations of the Convention in the light of its findings in Merit v. Ukraine (no. 66561/01, 30 March 2004) and Kharchenko v. Ukraine (cited above).V. APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 41 OF THE CONVENTION
14. Article 41 of the Convention provides:"If the Court finds that there has been a violation of the Convention or the Protocols thereto, and if the internal law of the High Contracting Party concerned allows only partial reparation to be made, the Court shall, if necessary, afford just satisfaction to the injured party."
15. Regard being had to the documents in its possession and to its case-law, the Court considers it reasonable to award the sums indicated in the appended table.16. The Court considers it appropriate that the default interest rate should be based on the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank, to which should be added three percentage points.FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT, UNANIMOUSLY,
1. Decides to join the applications;
2. Declares the complaints concerning the excessive length of pre-trial detention and the other complaints under well-established case-law of the Court, as set out in the appended table, admissible;
3. Holds that these complaints disclose a breach of Article 5 § 3 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of pre-trial detention;
4. Holds that there has been a violation of the Convention as regards the other complaints raised under well-established case-law of the Court (see appended table);
5. Holds
(a) that the respondent State is to pay the applicants, within three months, the amounts indicated in the appended table, to be converted into the currency of the respondent State, except for application no. 71560/13, at the rate applicable at the date of settlement;
(b) that from the expiry of the above-mentioned three months until settlement simple interest shall be payable on the above amounts at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points.
Done in English, and notified in writing on 3 May 2018, pursuant to Rule 77 §§ 2 and 3 of the Rules of Court.
Liv TigerstedtAndré Potocki
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 5 § 3 of the Convention
(excessive length of pre-trial detention)
Application no. | Applicant name Date of birth | Representative name and location | Period of detention | Length of detention | Other complaints under well-established case-law | Amount awarded for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses per applicant | |
07/09/2009 | Aleksandr Andreyevich Krasyukov 25/02/1970 |
| 18/10/2005 to 28/12/2006
17/07/2007 to 08/04/2009 | 1 year, 2 months and 11 days
1 year, 8 months and 23 days |
| 1,800 | |
28/09/2010 | Andrey Vyacheslavovich Skobey 01/08/1971 | Roman Yuryevich Martynovskyy Kyiv | 12/12/2008 to 12/09/2011
| 2 years, 9 months and 1 day
| Art. 6 (1) - excessive length of criminal proceedings - from 12/12/2008 to 27/11/2012 - almost 4 years, 2 levels of jurisdiction | 2,300 | |
15/10/2011 | Maksym Viktorovych Drozdenko 13/01/1975 |
| 01/07/2010 to 26/11/2013 | 3 years, 4 months and 26 days
| Art. 5 (1) - unlawful deprivation of liberty, including unrecorded detention and detention without a judicial order and any other legal basis - from 01/04/2011 to 14/04/2011: after the case was sent to the first instance court for consideration the applicant remained in detention without a court order from 01/04/2011 (when a previous court order expired) until 14/04/2011 (when a court held the first hearing in the applicant's case) - procedural gap. | 5,900 | |
29/11/2011 | Vadym Mykolayovych Maksymchuk 05/01/1982 | Oleksiy Volodymyrovych Tsybenko Kyiv | 15/03/2006 to 19/05/2008
25/12/2008 to 21/10/2009
17/09/2010 to 28/12/2011 | 2 years, 2 months and 5 days
9 months and 27 days
1 year, 3 months and 12 days | Art. 6 (1) - excessive length of criminal proceedings - from 15/03/2006 to 29/02/2012 - almost 6 years, 2 levels of jurisdiction | 3,400 | |
27/08/2012 | Viktor Aleksandrovich Zarichnyy 24/11/1973 | Mariya Mokhamedovna Auishat Kharkiv | 04/11/2009 to 29/06/2011
18/10/2011 to 14/12/2012
10/10/2013 to 20/02/2014 | 1 year, 7 months and 26 days
1 year, 1 month and 27 days
4 months and 11 days | Art. 5 (1) (c) - unlawful pre-trial detention - no end date of detention in courts' rulings of 06/11/2011 and 10/10/2013, lack of reasoning of prolongation of the applicant's detention
Art. 6 (1) - excessive length of criminal proceedings - from 04/11/2009 - pending, more than 8 years, 1 level of jurisdiction | 5,900 | |
15/11/2012 | Sergey Vladimirovich Nagornyuk 01/01/1960 |
| 01/02/2008 to 31/08/2011
22/05/2012 to 09/07/2013 | 3 years and 7 months
1 year, 1 month and 18 days
| Art. 5 (1) - unlawful deprivation of liberty, including unrecorded detention and detention without a judicial order and any other legal basis - lack of sufficient reasons in the courts' decisions ordering the applicant's arrest, extension of arrest and remittal of the case for fresh consideration by the court of appeal
Art. 6 (1) - excessive length of criminal proceedings - from 01/02/2008 to 09/07/2013, more than 5 years and 5 months, 2 levels of jurisdiction | 5,900 | |
17/09/2013 | Sergey Sergeyevich Syrovatka 26/05/1987 |
| 06/09/2012 to 20/01/2014
06/05/2014 to 21/08/2014 | 1 year, 4 months and 15 days
3 months and 16 days
| Art. 5 (1) (c) - unlawful pre-trial detention : (i) the applicant was apprehended on 06/09/2012 on "exceptional grounds" (by an investigator without obtaining a preliminary arrest warrant from a court on the ground that "victims and witnesses identified the applicant as a possible perpetrator"). However the alleged crime had been committed on 12/04/2012; it could not therefore be claimed that the authorities faced an urgent situation such as, for example, a situation of "in flagrante delicto" (see Strogan v. Ukraine, no. 30198/11, § 88, 6 October 2016); (ii) the courts referred mostly to the gravity of the charges, "lack of grounds for change of the preventive measure", and necessity to conduct certain investigative actions; local courts also mention that the applicant might have influenced witnesses and victims, however, no details corroborating such conclusions were laid down by the courts in their rulings | 5,900 | |
04/11/2013 | Yuriy Lvovych Tsybulya 04/11/1960 |
| 11/11/2010 to 14/04/2014 | 3 years, 5 months and 4 days
| Art. 5 (1) (c) - unlawful pre-trial detention - period from 10/05/2011 to 10/06/2011 was not covered by any order, no end date of detention in the court's ruling of 10/06/2011, lack of reasoning for prolongation of the applicant's detention | 5,900 | |
25/02/2014 | Gennadiy Fedorovych Gladkyy 04/02/1974 | Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bulgarov Odesa | 09/12/2013 to 21/08/2015 | 1 year, 8 months and 13 days
|
| 1,100 | |
26/12/2016 | Valeriy Grygorovych Manukov 25/05/1955 |
| 11/04/2009 to 29/11/2011
21/03/2012 to 04/03/2013
20/05/2014 to 01/04/2015
28/05/2015 to 15/05/2017 | 2 years, 7 months and 19 days
11 months and 12 days
10 months and 13 days
1 year, 11 months and 18 days | Art. 6 (1) - excessive length of criminal proceedings - from 11/04/2009 to 15/05/2017, more than 8 years, 3 levels of jurisdiction | 5,100 |
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.