FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 10197/22
Marin BUZATU against Romania
and 9 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 18 December 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 received by the applicants or the applicants’ relatives (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 cases should be struck 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.
Done in English and notified in writing on 29 January 2026.
 
 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 the response
by the applicant
Date of the Court’s
registered letter
Date of receipt of the registered letter
   10197/22
15/03/2022
 
Marin
BUZATU
1970
 
20/04/2022
31/03/2025
12/05/2025
25/07/2025
08/08/2025
Signed for receipt by the Pelendava prison’s authorities
   11372/22
18/03/2022
 
Fănel‑Pantelie SAFTA
1978
 
25/11/2024
31/03/2025
12/05/2025
25/07/2025
14/08/2025
Signed for receipt by the Craiova prison’s authorities
   11378/22
07/06/2022
 
Ionuţ‑Neculai GUZU
1992
 
01/07/2022
31/03/2025
12/05/2025
25/07/2025
08/08/2025
Signed for receipt by the applicant
   11393/22
28/03/2022
 
Ciprian‑Ionuţ CIOBANU
1979
 
02/05/2022
31/03/2025
12/05/2025
25/07/2025
07/08/2025
Signed for receipt by the applicant
   13062/22
30/03/2022
 
Petru
SZŐCSI
1967
 
23/05/2022
31/03/2025
12/05/2025
25/07/2025
08/08/2025
Illegible signature
   13300/22
12/07/2022
 
Florin HELMEGEANU
1981
 
19/07/2022
31/03/2025
12/05/2025
25/07/2025
07/08/2025
Signed for receipt by the applicant
   16826/22
10/05/2022
 
Mihai
VARGA
1974
 
27/06/2022
 
31/03/2025
12/05/2025
25/07/2025
07/08/2025
Signed for receipt by a relative of the applicant
   19908/22
23/05/2022
 
Florin‑Dumitru NIŢĂ
1991
 
18/02/2025
31/03/2025
12/05/2025
25/07/2025
08/08/2025
Signed for receipt by the Vaslui
prison’s authorities
   25834/22
06/07/2022
 
Valentin MURGULEŢ
1988
 
15/07/2022
31/03/2025
12/05/2025
25/07/2025
12/08/2025
Signed for receipt by a relative of the applicant
 32214/22
26/07/2022
 
Petre
IŞTOC
1962
 
21/10/2024
31/03/2025
12/05/2025
25/07/2025
14/08/2025
Illegible signature