JUDGMENT Shalyavski κ.α. v. Bulgaria 15-06-2017 (no. 67608/11) see here SUMMARY People with disabilities. Distinctive treatment. Long waiting outside the police station. Staying disabled for a 10-hour period in a car outside the police station awaiting police action consists of degrading treatment and hence a violation of Article 3 of the ECHR, as this behavior […]
JUDGMENT Grecu v. The Republic of Moldova 30.05.2017 (no. 51099/10) see here SUMMARY Illegal detention in police station for ten hours. Police violence. The case concerned the applicant’s complaint that she was illegally detained and was subjected to police violence for almost ten hours and was ill-treated by police. Ms. Grecu was arrested in the […]
JUDGMENT N.A. v. Switzerland (no. 50364/14) and A.I. v. Switzerland (no. 23378/15) 30-5-2017 SUMMARY Asylum. Refugees. Removal of aliens. Both applicants are Sudanese nationals who live in the Canton of Zurich and have applied for asylum. The Federal Immigration Service concluded that they did not qualify for refugee status, rejected their asylum applications and ordered their expulsion […]
JUDGMENT Matiošaitis and others v. Lithuania 23-5-2017 (no. 22662/13, 51059/13, 58823/13, 59692/13, 59700/13, 60115/13, 69425/13 and 72824/13) see here SUMMARY Life imprisonment. Inhuman and degrading treatment. No prospect of release. The penalty of life imprisonment where there is no prospect of release or reduction of this sentence constitutes inhuman and degrading treatment of those convicted. […]
JUDGMENT Bălșan v. Romania 23-5-2017 (no. 49645/09) see here SUMMARY Domestic violence. Complaints and indifference from the authorities. Inhuman and degrading treatment. Discrimination based on sex. The applicant had four children from her marriage, but her husband was violent towards her and her children during the marriage. The violence was intensified in 2007 during their […]
JUDGMENT Simeonovi v. Bulgaria 12-5-2017 (no. 21980/04) see here SUMMARY Inhuman and degrading treatment due to the combination of a strict framework for the applicant’s life imprisonment and the wretched conditions of detention of Bulgarian prisons. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights found a violation of Article 3 of the ECHR. […]
JUDGMENT Romanescu v. Romania 16-5-2017 (no. 78375/11) see here SUMMARY Inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners. Ineffective research. Condemnation of Romania. The applicant complained that he had been ill-treated for as long as he was illegally detained after the Romanian Revolution of December 1989. Despite the long-standing investigation of the authorities, no one was accused […]
JUDGMENT Sitnikov v. Russia (no. 14769/09) and Kondakov v. Russia (no. 31632/10) 2-5-2017 SUMMARY Inhuman and degrading treatment. Detainees. Police violence(bangs, kicks, virtual drownings, etc.) in the preliminary investigation of detained persons, with the result of signing their confession and the authorities’ refusal to investigate complaints about the police, constitutes inhuman and degrading treatment. Russia’s conviction for […]
JUDGMENT Olisov and others v. Russia 2-05-2017 (no. 10825/09, 12412/14, and 35192/14) see here SUMMARY Police violence in pre-trial procedures. Torture. Research. Police violence with bumps, kicks, beatings with a wooden trunk, choking attempts, bindings etc. against detainees to confess consists of torture. Insufficient investigation by the Russian authorities, which justified the acts by the police officers who […]
JUDGMENT Zherdev v. Ukraine 27-04-2017 (no. 34015/07) see here SUMMARY Degrading treatment by the police. The applicant, who was found guilty of robbery and homicide and sentenced to 13 years in prison, has filed with the ECtHR complaints about police pre-trial (physical and psychological abuse by the police authorities in order to extract his confession) […]
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