Shamayev and Others v. Georgia and Russia (dec.)

Information Note on the Court’s case-law 57October 2003Shamayev and Others v. Georgia and Russia (dec.) - 36378/02Decision 16.9.2003 [Section II]Article 3Inhuman treatmentAlleged ill-treatment of detainees of Chechen origin held incommunicado: admissibleExtraditionExtradition to Russia, with risk of capital punishment: admissibleThe case concerns an application lodged by 13 men of Chechen origin, aged from 22 to 31, who were arrested in August 2002 by the Georgian authorities. In Georgia the applicants had been charged, inter alia, with crossing a border illegally and unlawfully possessing and trading in arms. Numerous charges had also been brought against them in Russia, certain of which were subject to the death penalty. Five applicants were extradited to Russia in October 2002 after the Russian authorities had provided assurances that they would not be sentenced to death or subjected …