KESKIN proti Severní Makedonii

SECOND SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 6865/22
Ahmet KESKIN
against North Macedonia

The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 6 February 2025 as a Committee composed of:

Gediminas Sagatys, President,
Stéphane Pisani,
Juha Lavapuro, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 1 February 2022,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant, Mr Ahmet Keskin, was born in 1969. He was represented by Ms S. Keskin Arıcı, a lawyer practising in Ankara.

The applicant’s complaints, raised under Articles 5 and 6 of the Convention, concerning the alleged unlawfulness of his detention pending extradition, as well as the alleged ineffective assistance of a court-appointed lawyer and a court interpreter in the proceedings, were communicated to the Government of North Macedonia (“the Government”).

The applicant’s representative did not activate her Electronic Communication Service (“eComms”) account. The subsequent letters, sent by registered post on 14 June 2024 to the applicant’s representative and on 27 August 2024 to the applicant himself, returned to the Court as unclaimed.

By letters dated 21 October 2024, also sent by registered post, the applicant and his representative were invited to inform the Court by 18 November 2024 whether the applicant wished to maintain his application before the Court, and if so, to confirm both the postal address and the email address to be used for the future correspondence. The applicant’s attention was 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. These letters also returned to the Court.

The Court has received no letters from the applicant or his representative informing the Court about a change of address. The Registry’s attempts to reach the applicant and his representative by the telephone numbers indicated in the case file were unsuccessful.

THE LAW

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 application.

Accordingly, the case should be struck out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases.

Done in English and notified in writing on 6 March 2025.

Viktoriya Maradudina Gediminas Sagatys
Acting Deputy Registrar President