Such deficiencies and the slack attitude on the part of the prosecutor’s office caused, in the Court’s view, a loss of precious time and complicated the investigation of the applicant’s allegations. 59

On the first occasion, he was slapped, kicked and severely beaten with truncheons by three police officers, one of his teeth being broken in the process.

Investigator Mr S. also allegedly slapped the applicant once. The beating continued, on and off, for most of the day as the applicant allegedly continued to maintain his innocence.

The doctor recorded in his notes that the applicant had alleged that he had been repeatedly slapped and punched occasionally in the back of the head during the 2nd and 3rd interviews and that he had been

In particular, he stated that on 26 July 2005, at the end of a court hearing, the prison guards had pushed and slapped him in order to make him move faster. He had protested.

The third applicant submitted that he had been beaten during his arrest but had only been slapped in the face in the police car.

When I was in Askeran, I spoke to the deputy head of the administration of Askeran, Slavik Arushanyan, and compared his recollection of the events with that of the Khojaly inhabitants who came under fire

claiming that she herself had been physically attacked, Ms   Leila Dzhikurashvili complained that her ten-year-old daughter had been dragged along by the hair, her eleven-year-old son had been slapped

He repeatedly slapped her across the face in response to her allegedly insulting behaviour. Ms K. called the police, complaining that she had been beaten up and robbed of two gold rings.

solicitors alleging physical assaults by RUC officers while in custody, including being punched in the back, punched under the chin with a clenched fist, stabbed in the throat with extended fingers, slapped

Bosnia and Herzegovina lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a national of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr Slaven

The applicant alleged that K. slapped him on the face, and S. hit his face against the table and punched him in the chest.

His questioners also repeatedly humiliated him and slapped him on the head.

It stated that in the beginning, when the applicant had tried to kiss and touch her, Ms A had told him that she was not interested because she was the girlfriend of Mr D and slapped the applicant.

During the transfer she had not been given food or medication, had been slapped and insulted by the officers, and had not been allowed to go to the toilet in a proper place or in privacy.

shoulder from behind; that another brother had shown him one of the compromising photographs; and that then they had punched and kicked him and wrung his wrists, but he did not mention that they had slapped

She was beaten with fists, slapped with palms, kicked with legs, her head was pushed into a tree and she was strangled.

    On 10 December 2021 (the first day of the trial) the applicant admitted in his interrogation that he had occasionally shouted at his children, had pushed them and had slapped them in the

The Government pointed out that as regards the second applicant's leg injury, the latter's friend S.Š., when questioned by police, stated that “the police officer slammed the door so loudly that the second