{"id":1159,"date":"2013-01-22T22:50:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T22:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcstaging.co.uk\/ehrac\/?post_type=case-studies&p=1159"},"modified":"2023-10-31T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:58:18","slug":"prohibition-of-torture-inhuman-or-degrading-treatment-suleymanov-v-russia","status":"publish","type":"case-studies","link":"http:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/en_gb\/key-ehrac-cases\/prohibition-of-torture-inhuman-or-degrading-treatment-suleymanov-v-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Suleymanov v Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Case No. 32501\/11
\n<\/a>Judgment date: 22 January 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

The applicant was the father of Tamerlane Suleymanov, and lived in Grozny, Chechnya.\u00a0At around 11.30 am on 9 May 2011, a group\u00a0of eight armed men in black uniforms arrived\u00a0in two civilian cars at the son\u2019s place of work.\u00a0On identifying Tamerlan, the armed men beat\u00a0him with rifle butts until he was unconscious,\u00a0before driving him away. The incident took\u00a0place 20 metres from a police station, and in\u00a0front of several witnesses, including, according\u00a0to the applicant, policemen who failed to\u00a0intervene. The applicant complained to the\u00a0authorities that the perpetrators were the\u00a0same State officials who had ill-treated his son\u00a0two days before, and that he had information\u00a0that his son was being held by the authorities\u00a0in the village of Yalkhoy-Mokhk. He added that his son had been subject to ill-treatment\u00a0in detention on several occasions prior to his\u00a0abduction. The applicant had received no\u00a0reliable news of his son. He complained to\u00a0the ECtHR under Articles 3, 5 and 13 that\u00a0Tamerlan had been ill-treated and unlawfully\u00a0detained by law-enforcement officers, and\u00a0that the authorities had failed to effectively\u00a0investigate the matter. The applicant had also\u00a0made a Rule 39 request for Interim Measures\u00a0that was granted by the ECtHR, requiring\u00a0full access by investigators to the Kurchaloy\u00a0ROVD and for all measures to be taken in\u00a0order to establish whether Tamerlan was being\u00a0detained there. The steps taken by the Russian\u00a0Government established that Tamerlan\u00a0was not being held at the Korchaloy ROVD.<\/p>\n

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