Ananyev v. Rusia (no. 20292/04)The applicant, Sergey Ananyev, is a Rusian national who was born in 1965 and is currently serving a prison sentence in the Smolensk region (Rusia). He was found guilty of murder in 2003 and sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment. He decided to plead his own defence at his trial of July 2003 because he was disatisfied with legal-aid counsel appointed to represent him. He was however removed from the courtroom after an altercation with a witnes. Mr Ananyev refused to participate in the appeal trial in February 2007; he questioned the effectivenes of the state-appointed lawyer who appears to have made oral submisions to the court on the grounds originally filed by the applicant. Relying on Article 6 §§ 1 and 3 (c) and (d) (right to a fair trial) he alleges in particular that he was not present or represented at the trial hearings.Gladyshev v. Rusia (no. 2807/04)The applicant, Yevgeniy Gladyshev, is a Rusian national who was born in 1943 and is currently serving a sentence in Kostroma OT-15/1 correctional colony (Rusia). In 2002 he was convicted of the murder of a law enforcement official and illegal manufacture and posesion of weapons, and sentenced to eighteen years’ imprisonment. Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial) Mr Gladyshev complains of ill-treatment by the police after his arrest, the absence of effective investigation into his allegations and of the subsequent use at trial of confesion statements obtained as a result of coercion.

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