He asked the court to find his phone tapping unlawful and to award him damages.

the intended correctional impact on him; thus, the experts recommended the applicant’s confinement in a custodial psychiatric clinic for mandatory treatment pending his recovery. 5.

him from exercising his parental rights and duties.

He claimed that his and his family’s personal information had been accessible to a lawyer of the defendant in those proceedings. The applicant had feared for his and his family’s life and health. 5.

Since the applicant had not responded, on 20 April 2000 the Registrar sent another letter to him, asking whether he intended to pursue his petition and informing him of the terms of Article   37 §

       On 24 March 1997 the applicant unsuccessfully requested the court to grant permission for his wife to visit him in prison.

placing him in detention.

liver and abdominal haemorrhaging; moreover, when the victim had fallen down stairs, the applicant had thrown his shoes at him and left him sitting against the wall, failing to go to his aid.

with him his assault rifle, 2 magazines loaded with 60 rounds and a bayonet knife.

Police officers punched him on the face and, when he fell on the floor, kicked him on his head and body and insulted him.

One of them, in his capacity of assistant Public Prosecutor (Hulpofficier van Justitie), ordered the applicant to submit to a bloodtest whilst informing him that a refusal would amount to a criminal offence

Then three or four policemen restrained him so that he found himself lying on his back with his hands shackled behind.

Later, when it resumed, the applicant was heard shouting that his rights had been breached and that the police officers had immobilised him to the ground and had searched him.

He alleges that the lack of any possibility for him to decide to end his life on his terms is disproportionate and that the respondent State is under an obligation to provide a possibility for him to end

him and by itself served as the main restriction on his leading a dignified life in the already harsh environment of a penal facility.

The applicant maintained his confession. According to him, he did so having bribed the judge in charge of the case and hoping that she would release him on probation.

The applicant then asked the Kaunas Remand Prison Administration to allow his relatives to give him the device.

In December 2009 the applicant filed a criminal complaint on account of the ill-treatment allegedly inflicted on him during his detention and requested to undergo a forensic medical examination.

In particular, they hit him with a heavy object, presumably a pistol handle, on the back of his head so that he started bleeding, and beat him in the kidney area. 12.

According to the applicant, towards the end of November 1992 the Lance Corporal hit him on the side of the head with his fist, causing him to fall and strike his head on the ground.