The Court has suspended and subsequently prohibited extradition to Turkmenistan, and also found conditions of detention in the pre-trial detention centre and in the police station in St. Petersburg to be in contravention of Article 3 of the European Conve

Extradition of the applicant to Turkmenistan has been suspended and ultimately prohibited. His detention in absence of periodic judicial review has also been declared unlawful. Conditions of detention in the pre-trial detention centre and in the police station in St. Petersburg have been found to contravene Article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (prohibition of inhuman treatment).
* Judgment of 19 June 2008 in case no. 8320/04 «Ryabikin v. Russia»