, in comparable circumstances, it found that the Government had failed to demonstrate what redress could have been afforded to the applicant by a prosecutor or a court, taking into account that the problems arising from the conditions of the applicant's detention had apparently been of a structural nature and had not concerned the applicant's personal situation alone. In the case at hand, the Government submitted no evidence to enable the Court to depart from these findings with regard to the existence of an effective domestic remedy for the structural problem of overcrowding in Russian detention facilities. Although they referred to three cases in which the domestic courts had granted detainees non-pecuniary damage for inadequate conditions of detention, the Court notes that in those cases compensation was awarded for a detainee's infection with scabies or a failure to provide a detainee with food. Neither of those cases concerned detention in overcrowded cells. Moreover, the Government did not produce copies of the judgments cited by them. Nor did they submit the prosecutor's decisions to which they referred. Accordingly, the Court dismisses the Government's objection as to non-exhaustion of domestic remedies.
53. As regards the Government's argument about non-compliance with the six-month rule, the Court notes that the applicant was detained in the same detention facility from 11 October 2006 to 7 May 2008. The continuous nature of her detention, her identical descriptions of the general conditions of detention in all the cells in the detention facility and the allegation of severe overcrowding as the main characteristic of her detention conditions in both cells in which she was held warrant the examination of the applicant's detention from 11 October 2006 to 7 May 2008 as a whole, without dividing it into separate periods (see, for similar reasoning, Guliyev v. Russia, No. 24650/02, §§ 31 to 33, 19 June 2008, and Benediktov, cited above, § 31). The Court does not lose sight of the Government's argument that certain aspects of the conditions of the applicant's detention varied in different cells. However, it does not consider that those differences are sufficient to allow it to distinguish between the conditions of the applicant's detention or for her detention to be separated into several periods depending on the cell in which she was kept. The Court therefore dismisses the Government's objection as to non-compliance with the six-month rule.
54. The Court notes that this complaint is not manifestly ill-founded within the meaning of Article 35 § 3 of the Convention. It further notes that it is not inadmissible on any other grounds. It must therefore be declared admissible.
B. Merits
1. Arguments by the parties
55. The Government submitted that the conditions of the applicant's detention had been satisfactory. They conceded that detention facility No. IZ-50/3 in Serpukhov had been overcrowded. However, the authorities had done their best to improve the conditions of detention there. The applicant had had sufficient personal space and had been provided with an individual bunk and bedding at all times. She had been able to move freely and to exercise both in her cell and, for an hour daily, in the exercise yard. The sanitary and hygienic norms had been met. In sum, the conditions of the applicant's detention had been compatible with Article 3. In support of their submissions, the Government produced black and white photographs of the cells in which the applicant had been held. They also produced extracts from the registration logs showing the number of detainees in the applicant's cells on certain dates (see paragraph 32 above) and numerous certificates issued by the facility administration on 10 April 2008.
56. The applicant maintained that her cell had been overcro
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