4.  The applicant was born in 1961. 5.  On 10 October 2003 a deputy prosecutor in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, added the applicant’s name to the list of fugitives from justice and issued an arrest warrant on suspicion of human trafficking with the purpose of sexual exploitation. 6.  On 26 February 2009 the applicant was arrested in Russia. 7.  On 28 February 2009 the Pechorskiy District Court in the Pskov Region ordered the applicant’s detention pending extradition, referring to Articles 108 and 466 of the Code of Criminal Procedure but without setting a time-limit. 8.  On 16 March 2009 the Russian Prosecutor General’s office received a request for the applicant’s extradition from his counterpart in Uzbekistan. 9.  On 15 May 2009 the deputy Russian Prosecutor General ordered the applicant’s extradition to Uzbekistan. 10.  The applicant challenged the extradition order before the Pskov Regional Court. On 26 June 2009 the Regional Court found that the extradition order was lawful. On 17 August 2009 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision on appeal. 11.  On 17 October 2009 the applicant was extradited to Uzbekistan.