During the hearings they sat on a bench enclosed on four sides by metal rods 10 millimetres in diameter.

On unspecified dates, a number of other robberies were committed in a similar way in the region. 7.

This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.

with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by two Russian nationals, Mr Aleksandr Sergeyevich Svinarenko and Mr Valentin

  In August 2001 Mr Kovalev was found guilty of being a member of an organised armed gang and of two armed robberies and was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years’ imprisonment.