Upon his release, his family hid him and obtained a Russian “external passport” in his name to enable him to flee.

to Afghanistan, where his Russian wife and two daughters could not join him.

The applicant stated that following his examination by the surgeon, prison doctors attempted to force him to sign a document withdrawing his complaints about the quality of medical assistance.

The pressure caused by the bar behind his knees was such that it prevented his blood from circulating. The police officers hit him several times on the head with an empty glass beer bottle.

The applicant had not mentioned his request for adjournment of the hearings, nor the fact that his wife and his employee (his uncle) had informed him about the criminal proceedings instituted against him

He submits that the police officer G. repeatedly threatened him with torture in order to get his confession, demanded bribe from him, searched his flat with other police officers and put handcuffs on him

According to the applicant, the officers hit him several times all over his body with a truncheon and then took him to a police bus. The beatings were recorded on video.

K. told the applicant that his residence permit was invalid and took him to the Taganrog office of the Passports and Visas Service allegedly for the purpose of “checking the legality of his presence in

    On leaving the police station, the applicant met his aunt and a man from his village, who were waiting for him and his accomplice (his cousin), who had been questioned at the same time by

His intellectual ability was assessed to fall within a norm. The experts concluded that the applicant’s current mental condition made him unfit for serving a prison sentence. 21.

The applicant submitted that he had had a very close relationship with her as she had raised him after the death of his mother, convinced him to surrender to the authorities and, subsequently, despite

On 14 April 2009 the Kharkiv Court of Appeal sentenced him to ten years and six months’ imprisonment with confiscation of all his property. That judgment was eventually confirmed on appeal.

He had on his person 35,000 Austrian Schillings and other money in American Express and First National City Bank Traveller's cheques, for which he was made to sign when they were removed from him.

him to close his café.

In his summing up, he directed the jury as follows: “The second matter which arises from his silence is that it could count against him. It doesn’t have to but it could.

When he refused to do so, the officers wrapped his wrists with towel-like cloths and handcuffed him behind his knees.

    On 26 August 2009 the serving of his sentence of imprisonment was interrupted in order for him to take care of his elderly mother, who had undergone hip-replacement surgery in July 2009.

The applicant, who mistakenly understood that L. had been invited by his parents, consented to engage him and repeated his previous testimony in his presence.

He presumed that the evidence against him in the file mainly consisted of statements given by his colleagues and other civil servants.