Source: hudoc

The applicant, Vladimir Markaryan, is a Russian national who was born in 1976 and lived, prior to his arrest, in Shakhty, Rostov Region (Russia). He was convicted of a number of offences, including murder and the organisation of a criminal gang, and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in a judgment which became final in September 2004. Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), he complained that he had been ill-treated in police custody in May 2003 – alleging in particular that he had been brutally and repeatedly beaten by several police officers in order to make him confess to the murder – and that there had been no effective investigation into his complaints.

Two violations of Article 3 (ill-treatment + investigation)

Just satisfaction: EUR 10,000 (non-pecuniary damage)