CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 29 juin 2007

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s2C7B3542 { font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt; color:#0000ff } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .sADADF4A7 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS   465 29.6.2007   Press release issued by the Registrar     European Court completes fact-finding mission in case concerning Ukraine   A fact-finding mission in Ukraine has just been completed by the European Court of Human Rights.   A delegation of three Court Judges – Rait Maruste (Estonian), Renate Jaeger (German) and Volodymyr   Butkevych (Ukrainian) – took evidence from witnesses in Khmelnytsky (Ukraine) from Monday 25 to Wednesday 27 June 2007 in Izyaslav Prison and held an on-the-spot investigation in the case of Druzenko and Others v. Ukraine (applications nos. 17674/02 and 39081/02).   The case mainly concerns the complaints of 13 detainees about their alleged ill-treatment in the course of training and search operations carried out with the involvement of special forces in the prison in which they were serving their sentences. The applicants alleged that they were ill-treated in the course of training on, among other things, suppression of prison riots, and responding to hostage-taking and terrorist attacks. The applications raise issues under Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), Article 8 (right to respect for private life), Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) and Article 34 (individual applications) of the European Convention on Human Rights.   The Ukrainian Government submit that the applicants were never ill-treated by special forces and that there has been no violation of Articles 3, 8, 13 and 34 of the Convention.   The two applications were introduced before the Court on 27 June 2001 and 24 March 2002. They were declared admissible on 15 January 2007. The Court will now continue its examination of the case.     ***   Further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Press contacts Emma Hellyer (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15) Stéphanie Klein (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 21 54) Beverley Jacobs (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 54 21) Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.