Published on 7 April 2025
 
FIRST SECTION
Application no. 1353/24
Igor MEDVED against Latvia
and 3 other applications
(see list appended)
communicated on 21 March 2025
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The applications concern the applicant’s initial and continued pre-trial detention. The applicant – a Belarusian national – was arrested on 22 March 2023 on suspicion of having violated international sanctions imposed by the European Union.
On 23 March 2023 an investigating judge ordered the applicant’s detention pending trial. On 5 April 2023 a higher-court judge upheld that decision. The applicant’s detention was then periodically reviewed by judicial decisions of 17 May, 5 July, 25 July, 18 September, 15 November, and 1 December 2023, 5 January, 15 March, 3 April, 15 April, 20 May, 19 June, 21 August, 5 November, and 26 November 2024.
The applicant alleges that his initial and continued pre-trial detention was not justified and that the judicial decisions lacked sufficient reasoning. He relies on Article 5 §§ 1 (c) and 3 of the Convention.
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
1.  Was the applicant’s initial and continued detention in compliance with Article 5 §§ 1 (c) and 3 of the Convention?
 
2.  In particular, having regard to the Court’ s case-law (see, for example, Buzadji v. the Republic of Moldova [GC], no. 23755/07, §§ 85-91, 5 July 2016; Urtāns v. Latvia, no. 16858/11, §§ 28-30, 28 October 2014; and Bluks Savickis v. Latvia, no. 44570/19, §§ 35-37, 13 June 2024), did the domestic courts assess the reasonableness of the suspicion that the applicant had committed the offence he had been charged with and did they provide relevant and sufficient reasons for the applicant’s initial and continued detention?
 
 
 
APPENDIX
No.
Application no.
Case name
Lodged on
Applicant
Year of Birth
Place of Residence
Nationality
Represented by
1.
1353/24
Medved v. Latvia
03/01/2024
Igor MEDVED
1974
Lapmežciems
Belarusian
Oskars JONĀNS
2.
12533/24
Medved v. Latvia
23/04/2024
Igor MEDVED
1974
Lapmežciems
Belarusian
Jānis STRENCIS
3.
25271/24
Medved v. Latvia
28/06/2024
Igor MEDVED
1974
Lapmežciems
Belarusian
Jānis STRENCIS
4.
4478/25
Medved v. Latvia
05/02/2025
Igor MEDVED
1974
Lapmežciems
Belarusian
Jānis STRENCIS