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issued by the Registrar of the Court   ECHR 155 (2013)   23.05.2013   Judgments concerning Russia   The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing the following two   Chamber judgments1, none of which is final. The judgments are available only in English.   E. A. v. Russia (application no. 44187/04)   The applicant, E.A., is an Uzbek national who was born in 1966. In August 2003, he was   arrested in Perm (Russia) and placed in pre-trial detention. In April 2004, he was   convicted of, in particular, causing fatal injuries to a person and sentenced to six years   and one month’s imprisonment. After having served his sentence, he was released in   September 2008. Relying in particular on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading   treatment), he alleged that from 2003 to 2006 he had not received appropriate medical   care in detention. Having been diagnosed with HIV, he complained in particular that an   immunological assessment - being an indispensable element of the medical care for HIV   patients - should have been, but had not been, carried out on a regular basis.   Violation of Article 3 (inappropriate medical care in detention)   Just satisfaction: EUR 7,500 (non-pecuniary damage)   K. v. Russia (no. 69235/11)   The applicant, K., is a Belarusian national who was born in 1966. Having moved to   Russia in 2008, he was arrested in Moscow in May 2011 on the basis of an international   arrest warrant issued by the authorities in Belarus, where he was wanted on a number of   charges, including aggravated robbery and kidnapping. His detention pending extradition   was subsequently extended on several occasions. A decision by the Russian Prosecutor   General to extradite Mr K. to Belarus was upheld by the Russian Supreme Court in   November 2011. However, the decision was not enforced, pursuant to an interim   measure granted by the European Court of Human Rights (under Rule 39 of its Rules of   Court) indicating to the Russian Government that Mr K. should not be extradited to   Belarus until further notice. An asylum request by Mr K., who maintains that he would   risk political persecution, torture and unfair criminal conviction in Belarus given his active   involvement in the opposition movement there, was dismissed by the Russian authorities   in December 2011. In May 2012, he was granted temporary asylum for one year and   was released from custody. Relying in particular on Article 3 (prohibition of torture and   of inhuman or degrading treatment), Mr K. complained that his extradition to Belarus   would expose him to the risk of ill-treatment. Relying further on Article 5 §§ 1 and 4   (right to liberty and security / right to have lawfulness of detention decided speedily by a   court), he complained that his detention pending extradition from May 2011 to May 2012   had been unlawful and that the detention orders had not been speedily reviewed.   No violation of Article 3 (in the event of the applicants’ being extradited to Belarus)   Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month   period following a judgment’s delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber   of the Court. If such a request is made, a panel of five judges considers whether the case deserves further   examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and deliver a final judgment. If the referral   request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the Convention,   judgments delivered by a Committee are final.   Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for   supervision of its execution. Further information about the execution process can be found here:   www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution   No violation of Article 5 § 1 (f) (as regards both the lawfulness of the detention and   the conduct of the extradition proceedings)   Violation of Article 5 § 4   Interim measure (Rule 39 of the Rules of Court) – not to extradite the applicant to   Belarus – still in force until judgment becomes final or until further order.   Just satisfaction: EUR 2,000 (non-pecuniary damage)   This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court.   Decisions, judgments and further information about the Court can be found on   www.echr.coe.int. To receive the Court’s press releases, please subscribe here:   www.echr.coe.int/RSS/en or follow us on Twitter @ECHR_Press.   Press contacts   [email protected]e.int | tel: +33 3 90 21 42 08   Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel: + 33 3 88 41 35 30)   Nina Salomon (tel: + 33 3 90 21 49 79)   Denis Lambert (tel: + 33 3 90 21 41 09)   Jean Conte (tel: + 33 3 90 21 58 77)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of   Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European   Convention on Human Rights.   2