The applicant, Davronbek Khodzhamberdiyev, is an Uzbek national who was born in 1971 and lives in Saratov (Russia). In the 1990s, while living in Uzbekistan, he was involved in the activities of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a pan-Islamic organisation banned in Russia. He moved to Russia in May 2000 and was arrested and detained between February and December 2010 with a view to his extradition to Uzbekistan, where he was wanted in connection with a number of offences including an attempt to overthrow the existing regime. He was released on 28 December 2010 following the annulment of his extradition order by the regional court. In July 2011, the Moscow Office of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) found that he was eligible for international protection as a refugee. Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), Article 5 §§ 1 and 4 (right to liberty and security) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy), he complains that, if removed from Russia, he risked ill- treatment in Uzbekistan, and that he was detained unlawfully with a view to extradition without effective judicial review.
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)