THIRD SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 56913/21
Niko FUQI against Greece
and 7 other applications

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 13 March 2025 as a Committee composed of:

Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir, President,
Úna Ní Raifeartaigh,
Mateja Đurović, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,

Having regard to the declarations submitted by the respondent Government requesting the Court to strike the applications out of the list of cases, and the applicants’ replies to these declarations,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The list of applicants and their representatives is set out in the appended table.

The applicants’ complaints under Article 3 of the Convention concerning the inadequate conditions of detention were communicated to the Greek Government (“the Government”). Complaints based on the same facts were also communicated under Article 13 of the Convention

The Government submitted declarations with a view to resolving the issues raised by these complaints. They further requested the Court to strike out the applications.

The Government acknowledged the inadequate conditions of detention. They further acknowledged that there has been a violation of Article 13 of the Convention. They offered to pay the applicants the amounts detailed in the appended table and invited the Court to strike the applications out of the list of cases in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (c) of the Convention. The amounts would be payable within three months from the date of notification of the Court’s decision. In the event of failure to pay these amounts within the above-mentioned three-month period, the Government undertook to pay simple interest on them, from the expiry of that period until settlement, at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points.

The payment will constitute the final resolution of the cases.

The applicants informed the Court that they agreed to the terms of the declarations.

THE LAW

Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.

The Court finds that, following the applicants’ express agreement to the terms of the declaration made by the Government, the cases should be treated as a friendly settlement between the parties.

It therefore takes note of the friendly settlement reached between the parties. It is satisfied that the settlement is based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto and finds no reasons to justify the continued examination of the applications.

In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to join the applications;

Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.

Done in English and notified in writing on 3 April 2025.

Viktoriya Maradudina Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir
Acting Deputy Registrar President

APPENDIX

List of applications raising complaints under Article 3 of the Convention

(inadequate conditions of detention)

No.	Application no. Date of introduction	Applicant’s name Year of birth	Representative’s name and location	Other complaints under well-established case-law	Date of receipt of Government’s declaration	Date of receipt of applicant’s acceptance	Amount awarded for non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses per applicant (in euros)[1]
	56913/21 10/11/2021	Niko FUQI 1972	Moysidou Xanthippi Thessaloniki	Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention -	28/09/2022	14/10/2022	3,300
	56967/21 10/11/2021	Georgios SPANIDIS 2000	Moysidou Xanthippi Thessaloniki	Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention -	28/09/2022	14/10/2022	3,000
	56976/21 10/11/2021	Ilia THIMO 1976	Moysidou Xanthippi Thessaloniki	Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention -	28/09/2022	14/10/2022	5,200
	56985/21 10/11/2021	Christoforos GEORGIADIS 1981	Moysidou Xanthippi Thessaloniki	Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention -	28/09/2022	14/10/2022	6,700
	56993/21 10/11/2021	Antonios DIMITRIADIS 1962	Moysidou Xanthippi Thessaloniki	Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention -	28/09/2022	14/10/2022	4,200
	56995/21 10/11/2021	Lambros KIKIONIS 1988	Moysidou Xanthippi Thessaloniki	Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention -	28/09/2022	14/10/2022	4,100
	3127/22 07/01/2022	Umar Shehzad BUTT 1995	Moysidou Xanthippi Thessaloniki Chatziioannou Konstantinos Thessaloniki	Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention -	12/10/2022	24/10/2022	6,100
	10103/22 14/02/2022	Stylianos LIANOS 1971	Chatziioannou Konstantinos Thessaloniki Klianis Eleftherios Thessaloniki	Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of inadequate conditions of detention -	10/03/2023	28/04/2023	9,800

[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.