GLUKHIN v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT
In the case of Glukhin v. Russia,
The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a
Chamber composed of:
Pere Pastor Vilanova, President,
Jolien Schukking,
Yonko Grozev,
Georgios A. Serghides,
Peeter Roosma,
Andreas Zünd,
Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir, judges,
and Milan Blaško, Section Registrar,
Having regard to:
the application (no. 11519/20) against the Russian Federation lodged with
the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human
Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Russian national,
Mr Nikolay Sergeyevich Glukhin (“the applicant”), on 31 January 2020;
the decision to give notice to the Russian Government (“the Government”)
of the complaints concerning Article 6 § 1 and Articles 8 and 10 of the
Convention, and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application;
the observations submitted by the respondent Government and the
observations in reply submitted by the applicant;
the comments submitted by Article 19, which was granted leave to
intervene by the President of the Section;
the respondent Government’s failure to submit observations in reply to the
third-party observations and the lack of any communication from the
respondent Government since March 2022;
the decision of the President of the Section to appoint one of the sitting
judges of the Court to act as an ad hoc judge, applying by analogy Rule 29
§ 2 of the Rules of the Court (see, for an explanation of the background for
this, Kutayev v. Russia, no. 17912/15, §§ 5-8, 24 January 2023);
Having deliberated in private on 23 May and 13 June 2023,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on the lastmentioned date:
INTRODUCTION
1. The case concerns the applicant’s administrative conviction for his
failure to notify the authorities of his intention to hold a solo demonstration
using a “quickly (de)assembled object”. During the investigation the police
used facial recognition technology to process the applicant’s personal data.
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