The court went on to note that when his rights were being explained to him at the pre-trial stage, the applicant had stated that he understood his rights, that he spoke Russian, would give

Consequently, the applicants were obliged to surrender a part of the contentious agricultural land and to reimburse the price of the remainder to the plaintiffs.

Six of them were adjourned because Mrs P. had failed to appear before the court and one because the judge was involved in other proceedings.

They were represented before the Court by Ms S. Margaritova-Vuchkova, a lawyer practising in Sofia. The Bulgarian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agents, Mrs N.

Four more medical reports were issued subsequently.

    In October 1998 the proceedings were resumed. 11.

According to the official record, small quantities of heroin, cocaine, a hand gun and other belongings were seized.

Subsequently further search and seizure warrants were issued, documents were seized or handed over voluntarily, numerous witnesses were heard and the later co-defendants were questioned.

According to the applicants, the keys were eventually handed over because spouses   B. were no longer residing in the property and had virtually abandoned it.

Some of the servicemen were not wearing masks and were of Slavic appearance.

The same torture techniques were applied to servicemen T. and A. 10.

    The applicants were represented by lawyers of the NGO EHRAC/Memorial Human Rights Centre. The Russian Government (“the Government”) were represented by Mr   G.

The Government were mandated to devise a procedure for the conversion and to fix the value of the promissory notes.

    The applicants were represented by Mr D. Marinov, a lawyer practising in Plovdiv. The Bulgarian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mrs M. Dimova. 3.

On 15 April, 24 April and 25 February 2014 respectively the applicants in the first, second and third cases were arrested on suspicion of theft.

The Croatian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Ms Š. Stažnik. 3.

It went on to say that those securities were being offered to the public in breach of the requirements of the law, and ordered the company to desist from making further offers immediately and to unwind

    Shortly thereafter the armed men who were searching the house went outside and asked the first applicant for Vakhit Avkhadov’s identity papers.

His parents were asleep and did not open the door.