CASE OF DUBOV v. RUSSIA
Violation of Article 3 - Prohibition of torture (Article 3 - Degrading treatment;Inhuman treatment) (Substantive aspect)
Julia Laffranque;Khanlar Hajiyev;Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos
6. The applicant was born in 1968. On 25 October 2010 the Supreme Court of the Chuvash Republic found the applicant guilty of murdering his girlfriend and sentenced him to thirteen years’ imprisonment in a high-security facility. On 27 December 2010 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the conviction on appeal. 7. Since 31 January 2011 the applicant has been serving his sentence in the IK-11 facility (Russian designation УЗ-62/11), a correctional institution located in the Nizhniy Novgorod Region. The sleeping area was severely overcrowded, with each prisoner having less than two square metres of personal space. 8. The Government submitted copies of the supervising prosecutor’s infringement reports showing that a severe overcrowding had been a constant problem in the IK-11 facility at least until 2013.