FIRST SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 40158/20
Łukasz SALAMON against Poland
and 3 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 19 June 2025 as a Committee composed of:
 Frédéric Krenc, President,
 Davor Derenčinović,
 Alain Chablais, judges,
and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the cases,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The list of applicants is set out in the appended table.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 8 of the Convention concerning the strip searches they had had to undergo while imprisoned were communicated to the Polish Government (“the Government”).
The Court received the friendly-settlement declarations, signed by the parties, under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Poland in respect of the facts giving rise to these applications, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amounts detailed in the appended table. These amounts will be converted into the currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the Court’s decision. In the event of failure to pay these amounts within the above‑mentioned three-month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on them, from the expiry of that period until settlement, at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points.
The payment will constitute the final resolution of the cases.
THE LAW
Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.
The Court takes note of the friendly settlement reached between the parties. It is satisfied that the settlement is based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the applications.
In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to join the applications;
Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.
Done in English and notified in writing on 10 July 2025.
 
 Viktoriya Maradudina Frédéric Krenc
 Acting Deputy Registrar President
 
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 8 of the Convention
(strip searches in detention)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Year of birth
Representative’s name and location
Date of receipt of Government’s declaration
Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration
Amount awarded for pecuniary and non‑pecuniary damage and costs and expenses
per applicant
(in euros)[1]
   40158/20
01/09/2020
Łukasz SALAMON
1988
 
Kruk Honorata
Wroclaw
18/03/2025
13/12/2024
4,500
   9031/21
14/01/2021
Andrzej STASKOW
1978
 
 
 
18/03/2025
14/10/2024
6,500
   61581/21
03/12/2021
Paweł DYLONG
1990
 
Przesdzing Piotr
Strzelce Opolskie
17/03/2025
30/10/2024
4,500
   52120/22
24/10/2022
Kacper CERKOWNIAK
2001
 
Łysień Grzegorz
Stargard
19/03/2025
08/10/2024
3,500
 
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.