The applicant, Yevgeniy Shteyn (Stein), is a Russian and German national who was born in 1980. Arrested in December 2004 on suspicion of smuggling ecstasy, Mr Shteyn was convicted at final instance in March 2009 to 11 years’ imprisonment for drug-trafficking, among other offences. Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), he complains about the conditions of his detention. Further relying on Article 5 §§ 1, 3 and 4 (right to liberty and security) and Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial within a reasonable time), he also complains about the unlawfulness of his detention in 2006, delays in the examination of his appeals against detention orders as well as the excessive length of his detention on remand and of the criminal proceedings against him.
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)