FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 43697/21
Iosif MARIN against Romania
and 10 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 list 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
   43697/21
20/09/2021
Iosif MARIN
1976 
 
29/09/2021
26/03/2025
07/05/2025
04/06/2025
Received by the applicant on 18/06/2025
   56532/21
16/04/2022
Gheorghiță-Laurențiu GHERGHINA
1999 
 
07/06/2022
26/03/2025
07/05/2025
04/06/2025
Received by the prison’s representative on 20/06/2025
   56685/21
14/03/2022
Lucian-Nelu DASCĂLU
1974 
 
22/03/2022
26/03/2025
07/05/2025
04/06/2025
Received by the applicant on 23/06/2025
   7875/22
15/03/2022
Zoltan CRISTOREANU
1972 
 
22/04/2022
03/03/2025
14/04/2025
02/06/2025
Received on 26/06/2025, illegible signature
   22204/22
24/04/2022
Sorin IGNA
1971 
 
02/05/2022
18/03/2025
29/04/2025
06/06/2025
Received on 24/06/2025, illegible signature
   26377/22
19/07/2022
Tudor-Florin MOCĂNICI
1987 
 
26/07/2022
03/03/2025
14/04/2025
02/06/2025
Received on 17/06/2025, illegible signature
   31323/22
28/09/2022
Fănel DUMINICĂ
1982 
 
09/11/2022
18/03/2025
29/04/2025
06/06/2025
Received on 18/06/2025, by a relative of the applicant
   33850/22
09/08/2022
Adrian SFAIŢ
1991 
 
17/04/2023
03/03/2025
14/04/2025
02/06/2025
Received on 19/06/2025, illegible signature
   50186/22
17/01/2023
Florin DIOSZEGI
1987 
 
15/05/2025
02/05/2025
13/06/2025
26/05/2025,
letter sent to the applicant’s new address following his letter of 15/05/2025, with the strike-out warning
Received by the prison’s representative on 18/06/2025
 50543/22
21/11/2022
Szabolcs DELNE
1979 
 
28/11/2022
18/03/2025
29/04/2025
06/06/2025
Received by the applicant on 19/06/2025
 54512/22
28/12/2022
Adrian-Ion BICU
1987 
 
15/02/2023
18/03/2025
29/04/2025
06/06/2025
Received on 18/06/2025, illegible signature