They have also not shown in what respect their children would require treatment which could not be afforded to them there.

According to the applicants, making such applications was difficult for them as they are poor and live their lives in the Roma community, isolated from the rest of society.

The Court first found that they could only complain insofar as they had lost their functions in the municipal council, since only this concerned their own personal rights.

They further asked the Court to advise them whether or not there were any other authorities still outstanding.

Their car in the garage and the cowshed with two calves inside were burned. On the same day M. buried the bodies on a patch of land by the house, having wrapped them into pieces of cloth.

The gendarmerie replied that they had been unable to find the perpetrators despite their searches. 20.

There is no evidence to support the contention that these respondents had any possession of the land of Fjall which could result in their direct title through adverse possession.

On 25 March 1999 the applicants were brought before the public prosecutor and the investigating judge, where they denied the veracity of their statements to the police and alleged that they had been forced

During their police custody, the applicants signed statements and confessed that they were members of the Revolutionary Left.

The applicants were then heard by the youth court in conditions which they said were highly unfavourable.

They further complain under Article 8 of the Convention that they were subjected by the Russian authorities to an absolute ban on contact with their family members and with the outside world.

In their opinion, the medical reports clearly indicated the effects of the ill-treatment which they had suffered. 26.

    In the context of the applicants’ appeal against their conviction, they requested dismissal of the case inter alia on the ground that their right to have access to documentation, guaranteed

The first applicant asked the servicemen how their car had arrived at the dugout. They replied that it had arrived there, followed by a four-door silver-grey Niva vehicle.

As the police found certain irregularities, they sanctioned individual drivers and then allowed the buses to proceed to Melnik.

They pointed out that the statements made by these soldiers were identical as a result of the psychological pressure exerted on them by the gendarme officer present during their questioning. 38.

means of altering the position of landowners or of compensating them for damage they may have sustained in the time up to the final award of the statutory compensation in land.

The defendants were confronted with a stark but clear choice: either they could help the police in the knowledge that what they said may be utilised against them, or they could protect themselves and remain

They led the inhabitants out of the encampment and set their tents on fire with their personal belongings inside. The officers fired six shots in the air and shot a dog.

They submitted that, according to that report, as a rule, contacts of children with the parent they were not living with became a burden for them and were thus not in their best interests if the parents