for the alleged breach of his Convention rights under Article 6.

  24     In respect of the applicant's complaint that the Court of Appeal had unjustly failed to provide his lawyer with an opportunity to defend him in his absence at the hearing before

The applicant, his adult companion, the person who had called the police, as well as the nurse who had examined him in detention and the officers who had arrested him and who had taken his statement, were

   Further, the applicant complains under Article 8 that the court decisions denying him access to his children on Christmas 1992 violated his right to respect for his family life.

At the hearing, A.V. changed his statement and claimed that a man had offered to find work for him and the applicant.

The applicant was tried by the Sympheropol Court, which on 7 October 2004 found him guilty of murder and sentenced him to fifteen years’ imprisonment.

Those circumstances were capable of giving the applicant cause for fear, which had been strengthened by the decision to impose a fine on him because of his conduct in the proceedings.

The applicant admitted that after the divorce he had not seen his son for one year on account of his health problems. He claimed that his son was happy to spend time together and to play with him.

On 15   February   2021, while serving his prison sentence, the applicant requested the director of Pravieniškės Correctional Facility, to transfer him to serve the remainder of his sentence

However, it convicted him for bribe taking and sentenced him to three years imprisonment, suspended.

Russia (application no. 60333/00)   MAKING A DETAINEE WAIT FIVE MONTHS BEFORE RETURNING HIS DAMAGED GLASSES TO HIM AND ANOTHER TWO MONTHS FOR HIS NEW GLASSES AMOUNTED TO DEGRADING TREATMENT  

  Violence had been used, Gross had pulled him around the room by his moustache, and he had been slightly hit on his head.

He further maintains that the police planted evidence against him, having put a blood stain on his shirt.

The Government state that when two police officers grabbed him by his arms and started to hustle him out, the applicant threw himself down on the ground.

  After having served his sentence, the applicant remained in custody with a view to his forthcoming deportation.

of his private life.

According to the applicant, the special police unit stormed his flat, threw him on the floor and punched him in the head and body.

Expert reports had indicated that he would remain unable to live on his own. In June 2010 the Migration Office revoked his residence permit and ordered him to leave Switzerland.

He was therefore unable to attend, but was represented by his lawyers. The court sentenced him in absentia to a term of imprisonment.

On one occasion, however, his wife wrote to him enclosing a short letter from his legitimate daughter.