point.
26. The Court's database indicates that between 22 January 2001 and 4 September 2007 it dispatched a total of twenty-three letters to the applicant's prison addresses, dated respectively 20 April, 2 August and 26 September 2001, 18 March, 6 September and 18 November 2002, 24 and 27 February, 19 March and 7 April 2003, 28 June and 5 July 2004, 2 September, 24 November and 1, 21 and 22 December 2004 and 18 January, 1 February, 8 and 9 March, 12 April and 20 June 2005.
2. The applicant's letters to the Court
27. In respect of the question concerning the total number of letters sent by the applicant to the Court through the prison services, the Government submitted that between 22 January 2001 and 4 September 2007 the applicant had sent out eleven letters. These letters had been sent by the applicant on the following dates: 7 September 2001, 20 August 2002, 14 January 2003, 30 September and 11 May 2004, and 15 and 19 January, 2 and 16 February, 12 May and 13 July 2005.
28. The Government admitted that the applicant's letters sent out on 7 September 2001, 20 August 2002 and 14 January 2003 had been censored by the prison authorities under Article 91 of the Code of Execution of Sentences then in force. They stated, further, that there had been no censorship of the remaining letters as the relevant applicable legislation had been amended and the European Court of Human Rights had been added to the list of bodies with which a prisoner could correspond without censorship.
29. The applicant submitted that, contrary to the Government's submission, during that period he had sent out 29 letters to the Court through the prison administration and that the prison administration had required him to hand these letters to them unsealed for censorship. The dates of dispatch were as follows: 22 January, 15 and 28 May, 26 June, 31 August, 6 October, 1 and 10 December 2001; 20 May, 15 August, 25 November 2002; 6 and 14 January, 3 March, 25 May, 20 October 2003; 13 and 23 April, 18 May, 30 September, 20 November and 29 December 2004; 15 January, 2 and 9 February, 26 July and 20 November 2005; 20 February 2006; and 15 March 2007.
30. The Court's database indicates that between 22 January 2001 and 4 September 2007 it received a total of eighteen letters from the applicant, dated respectively 22 January, 15 May, 31 August, 1 and 10 December 2001; 15 August, 14 October and 25 November 2002; 6 January and 20 November 2003; 15 April, 28 May, 30 September, 20 November and 21 and 30 December 2004; 25 April, 10 May and 20 November 2005; and 20 August and 1 September 2007. It is unclear whether the applicant sent these letters out directly from his prisons or through his relatives or a lawyer.
C. Alleged interference by the authorities
with the applicant's right of individual petition
31. On 28 August 2004 the Court gave notice of the application to the respondent Government.
32. On 21 December 2004 the Court received the applicant's letter of 20 November 2004. The letter stated that in September 2004 some officials from the Prosecutor's Office and the Main Directorate for the Execution of Sentences of the Ministry of Justice had visited him and had forced him to sign some papers. They had allegedly wanted the applicant to withdraw his application and had told him that he would not prove anything and only make things worse.
33. In their observations, the Government included the statement by the applicant dated 12 October 2004 and addressed to the Head of the Main Directorate of Execution of Sentences of the Ministry of Justice in charge of the Rostov Region, V.I. Khizhnyak, in which he stated that he had "no complaints, claims against the prison administration" and that he had no "claims concerning the receipt and dispatch of correspondence to and from the
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