Satybalova and Others v. Russia (Application no. 79947/12)

A selection of key paragraphs can be found below the judgment.

89. The key purpose of Article 5 is to prevent arbitrary or unjustified deprivations of liberty (…) The Court therefore considers that the unacknowledged detention of an individual is a complete negation of the fundamentally important guarantees contained in Article 5 of the Convention and discloses a most grave violation of that provision (…) The absence of a record of such matters as the date, time and location of detention, the name of the detainee, the reasons for the detention and the name of the person effecting it must be seen as incompatible, inter alia, with the very purpose of Article 5 of the Convention (…).