FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 40762/21
Sorin-Adrian MUNTEAN against Romania
and 7 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 6 November 2025 as a Committee composed of:
 Anne Louise Bormann, President,
 Sebastian Răduleţu,
 András Jakab, 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 deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The list of the applicants and the relevant details are set out in the appendix.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 3 of the Convention concerning the inadequate conditions of detention and the lack of any effective remedy in domestic law, were communicated to the Romanian Government, who submitted observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicants, who were invited to submit their own observations (see the appended table for the relevant dates). No reply was received by the Court.
By letters sent by registered post, the applicants were notified that the time allowed for the submission of their observations had expired (see the appended table for the relevant dates). The applicants’ attention was further drawn to Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, which provides that the Court may strike an application out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that the applicant does not intend to pursue the application.
No reply to these letters has been received by the Court. The registered letters were either received by the applicants or the applicants’ relatives or were returned to the Court (see details in the appended table).
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.
In the light of the foregoing, and in the absence of any special circumstances regarding respect for the rights guaranteed by the Convention and the Protocols thereto, the Court, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the applications.
Accordingly, the applications should be struck out of the Court’s list of cases.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to join the applications;
Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases.
Done in English and notified in writing on 27 November 2025.
 
 Viktoriya Maradudina Anne Louise Bormann
 Acting Deputy Registrar President
 
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 3 of the Convention
(inadequate conditions of detention)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Year of birth
Date of the
applicant’s last
letter to the Court
Date of sending
Government’s
observations to
the applicant
Time-limit for
submission of response by the applicant
Date of the Court’s
registered letter
Date of receipt/return of the registered letter
   40762/21
27/09/2021
Sorin-Adrian MUNTEAN
1989 
 
29/11/2021
02/09/2024
14/10/2024
29/11/2024
13/12/2024
Illegible signature
 
   42638/21
14/10/2021
Iulian-Lucian TAMAŞ
1995 
 
22/04/2022
18/03/2025
29/04/2025
18/06/2025
04/08/2025
Returned to sender
as “unclaimed”
 
   45148/21
20/10/2021
Florin-Gheorghiţă PODAR
1987 
 
12/04/2022
02/09/2024
14/10/2024
18/12/2024
30/12/2024
Signed for receipt by the applicant
 
   51577/21
02/12/2021
Romică IAKAB
1998 
 
25/04/2022
18/03/2025
29/04/2025
18/06/2025
01/08/2025
Returned to sender
as “unclaimed”
 
   54480/21
26/10/2021
Ginel TOMA
1985 
 
08/09/2022
18/03/2025
29/04/2025
18/06/2025
06/08/2025
Returned to sender
as “unclaimed”
 
   57052/21
12/11/2021
Sorin-Mihai MOCIOI
1999  
22/11/2021
18/03/2025
29/04/2025
18/06/2025
01/07/2025
Signed for receipt by the applicant
 
   26404/22
01/07/2022
Ismail GYUNAY
1991 
 
08/11/2024
18/03/2025
29/04/2025
18/06/2025
01/08/2025
Returned to sender
as “unclaimed”
 
   40268/22
19/09/2022
Mihăiţă MĂRUNTU
1993 
 
30/09/2022
18/03/2025
29/04/2025
18/06/2025
01/07/2025
Signed for receipt by the applicant’s mother