They further requested that if this request was refused then the court should hear the bank clerks as witnesses.

Following their refusal to comply with the order, the police officers arrested the applicant and one of his friends (E.A.), and sought to put them in a police car.

The court had provided the applicants with State-funded lawyers but by written request they had decided to reject the assistance of these lawyers, and to conduct their own defence.

A.S., a person close to the applicants’ family and employed by them in one of their businesses, stated at his interview that on the day of the events he had met the applicants and H.P. shortly after the

that the European Commission and the European Court declared admissible the applicants' complaints that, in the framework of the criminal proceedings conducted against them, they had been denied a fair

    The first and second applicants proceeded to the Migration Court (Migrationsdomstolen) where they maintained their story and added that several of their friends had been arrested since they

Selma resisted going down with them; however the officers forced her to. The applicant then heard the police officers ask Selma whether there were any PKK terrorists in the house.

My aim was thus to get to know them closely using an empirical approach, and to present the Gypsies of Turkey as they are, in all their aspects, on the basis of the principles of scientific objectivity

The applicants submit that they withdrew the other grounds of appeal relating to the meaning of this part of the leaflet because lack of time and legal advice prevented them from fully pursuing them.

The Regional Court attached importance to the fact that the couple had only requested to have their (step)daughter join them in the Netherlands on 16   September 1997, and that they had failed to

The latter, after having heard them, ordered their remand in custody. 14.

In 1986, their caravan was stolen and they moved into the workshop building on the land.

Moreover, they considered the grounds for remission of the tax surcharges but found none applicable to the situation before them.

  The Court considered that any ill-treatment inflicted in the way alleged by the applicants would have left marks on their bodies which would then have been observed by the doctor who examined them

The theft was reported to a pair of unarmed surveillants by the owner of the scooter. The three of them then set off in pursuit.

requests of their relatives, among whom there was the applicant.

It was they who shot my brother. Both of them had a pistol in their hands but I am unable to identify the make. One of the killers was approximately 1 metre 80 tall, the other 1 metre 60.

In one of these sets of proceedings, they obtained an order by the Constitutional Court in May 2004 quashing the judgments and decisions of the courts below on the ground that they breached their constitutional

During most of the time in question they were alone in their cells, where they spent almost 23 hours a day.