cution was present and made submissions.
B. Alleged censorship of the applicant's
letters by the prison authorities
15. In letters dated 13 April 2001, 1 December 2001, 25 November 2002, 15 April 2004 and 18 May 2004 the applicant complained that he had been unable to correspond freely with the Court, other domestic authorities and his lawyers; that the authorities had not accepted sealed envelopes for dispatch; and that there had been considerable delays in forwarding correspondence to him after its receipt by the prison and in actually sending letters out after their acceptance for dispatch.
16. In their observations, the Government submitted the register of correspondence which stated that the applicant had sent out letters to various destinations on various dates. There was a short description of the content of the letters dated between 1999 and March 2000. In respect of the letters dated March 2000, it was recorded that they had been "sealed".
17. In a letter of 25 April 2005 the applicant informed the Court that its letters of 1 February, 8 and 9 March 2005 had been forwarded to him with considerable delay. In particular, the letter of 1 February had been received by the prison on 16 February 2005, registered under the incoming number 620, and had not been forwarded to him until 3 March 2005.
18. In a letter of 20 November 2005 the applicant informed the Court that the Court's letter of 20 June 2005 had been received by the prison on 1 July 2005 and had not been served on him until 24 July 2005. He also stated that his understanding was that his letters dated 13 January 2005 and 1, 9 and 24 February 2005 (outgoing No. A-11 dated 19 January 2005, outgoing A-19 dated 2 February 2005 and outgoing A-26 dated 16 February 2005) had not been received by the Court.
19. In reply, in a letter of 18 January 2006, the Government submitted that the competent authorities had carried out an additional verification and had established one occurrence of delayed forwarding of mail from the Court to the applicant. As a result, some officials had been reprimanded. The Government denied, however, that any letters had been sent by the applicant to the Court on 13 January, 9 February and 24 February 2005.
20. In their further observations, the parties responded to the Court's factual questions concerning the applicant's claims in this respect and provided the following information.
21. The Government submitted that between 23 September 1998 and 1 February 2003 the applicant had served his sentence of imprisonment in penitentiary establishment UCh-398/9, the Rostov Region. As of 11 February 2003 the applicant had been serving his sentence in penitentiary establishment UCh-398-1, the Rostov Region.
22. The applicant did not contest these dates.
1. The Court's letters to the applicant
23. In respect of the question concerning the total number of letters received by the applicant from the Court through the prison services, the Government submitted that between 22 January 2001 and 4 September 2007 the applicant had received ten letters. These letters had been received by the prison and served on the applicant on the following respective dates: 9 and 10 July and 15 and 16 December 2004, 13 and 14 (two letters) and 29 January, 3, 16 and 17 February, 26 and 27 March (two letters), 22 and 23 April and 1 and 24 July 2005.
24. They also submitted that all the letters had been handed to the applicant in sealed envelopes and had not been censored.
25. In his further observations, the applicant submitted that during this time he had received eleven letters from the Court through the prison authority. He also alleged that all of these letters had been served on him with substantial delays. He did not submit any concrete evidence in support of the latter
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