issued by the Registrar of the Court
ECHR 317 (2023)
21.11.2023
Judgments of 21 November 2023
The European Court of Human Rights has today given notification in writing of four Chamber
judgments1:
one judgment is summarised below;
separate press releases have been issued for three other judgments in the cases of Laurijsen and
Others v. the Netherlands (applications nos. 56896/17, 56910/17, 56914/17, 56917/17, and
57307/17), Pleshkov and Others v. Russia (nos. 29356/19 and 31119/19), and Erdal Muhammet
Arslan and Others v. Türkiye (no. 42749/19);
The judgment summarised below is available only in English.
N.A. and Others v. Russia (application no. 48523/19)
The applicants are 13 Russian nationals who were born between 1956 and 2015 and live in Shali,
Prigorodnoye, Kurchaloy, Argun, Naurskaya (all Chechnya), Bamberg (Germany) and Derbent
(Dagestan). They are relatives of six men who were allegedly arrested by State officials in Chechnya
and then disappeared.
The case concerns their complaints of the abduction of their family members between 2016 and
2020 and the lack of an effective investigation into the matter.
They rely on Articles 2 (right to life), 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment/lack of
effective investigation), 5 (right to liberty and security) and 13 (right to an effective remedy) of the
European Convention on Human Rights.
Violation of Article 2 (right to life and investigation) in respect of Mr T.M., Mr Kh.Kh., Mr Sh.Yu.,
Mr M.S., Mr Aliyev and Mr Umarov on account of their enforced disappearance
Violation of Article 3 (ill treatment and investigation) in respect Mr Movsar Umarov on account of
his ill-treatment
Violation of Article 3 in respect of each of the applicants on account of their mental suffering caused
by the disappearance of their relatives
Violation of Article 5 in respect of Mr T.M., Mr Kh.Kh., Mr Sh.Yu., Mr M.S., Mr Aliyev and Mr Umarov
on account of their unlawful detention
Violation of Article 13 in conjunction with Article 2
Just satisfaction: Details of the amounts awarded to the applicants for pecuniary and non-pecuniary
damage, as well as costs and expenses, are appended to the judgment.
This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions,
1
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.
