CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 5 avril 2023

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s379BC09C { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s10950C61 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:justify } .s5E1364CA { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s339D85E6 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s665E407E { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s5FFF0A75 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:7pt } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .s76CF415B { page-break-before:always; clear:both } .s25D5DE94 { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:7pt } .s1DE04B9 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:7pt } .sA1D3DA2E { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic }   Published on 24 April 2023   FIFTH SECTION Application no. 21425/18 Viktor Sergiyovych KOVALENKO against Ukraine lodged on 27 April 2018 communicated on 5 April 2023   SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The application concerns the alleged ill-treatment of the applicant by off ‑ duty police officers on 17 February 2008, and the alleged lack of an effective investigation into the matter. The applicant complains that as a result of the ill-treatment he sustained a skull fracture, concussion, and bruises on the soft tissues of his head. Since February 2008, the applicant repeatedly requested the opening of criminal proceedings in relation to the alleged ill-treatment. These were eventually opened on 18 July 2014 and are still pending. The applicant presented a forensic medical report of 25 April 2016, concluding that his head injury was serious. He complains under Article 3 (substantive and procedural limb) that he was ill-treated by State agents and that the subsequent investigation into his ill-treatment was ineffective.       QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES 1.     Has the applicant been subjected to ill-treatment by off-duty police officers on 17 February 2008, in breach of Article   3 of the Convention?   2.     Having regard to the procedural protection from inhuman or degrading treatment (see paragraph   131 of Labita v.   Italy [GC], no.   26772/95, ECHR 2000-IV; Savitskyy v. Ukraine , no. 38773/05, §§ 99-101, 26 July 2012; and Voykin and Others v. Ukraine , no. 47889/08, §§ 117, 27 March 2018), was the investigation in the present case by the domestic authorities in breach of Article   3 of the Convention?