The courts had had regard to several further items of evidence and also had considered Said   S.’s statements to be corroborated by evidence obtained from several anonymous informers, who had identified

(b) Merits – The statements that the applicant had made in his confession had provided the domestic investigating authorities with the framework around which they had built their case, had directed them

In addition, bullet-proof jackets had been provided to the applicant and his colleague, who had been invited to a preparatory meeting and had been given appropriate instructions.

The applicant had spent his whole life in Switzerland. The Court thus had to make sure that the domestic courts had put forward very sound reasons to justify the expulsion.

He had been acquitted at first instance after a public hearing during which different evidence had been taken and the applicant had been heard.

In Mr   B.’s submission, Mr E. and L. had told him that Mr K., P. and the applicant had beaten them up, that the applicant had had either a stick or a rifle, and that he had broken the rifle butt.

The latter had died before the application had been lodged by the first applicant.

A non-statutory review had been conducted with the aim of finding closure for women who had undergone the procedure, and an ex gratia payment scheme had been implemented, which had been subject to a report

The Government had not submitted any documentation relating to the investigative steps they had claimed had been taken and it did not appear from the domestic judicial decisions that those steps had been

The Court had to examine whether the application of these legal provisions had had a compensatory effect in practical terms, rendering the proceedings fair as a whole.

A non-statutory review had been conducted with the aim of finding closure for women who had undergone the procedure, and an ex gratia payment scheme had been implemented, which had been subject to a report

A non-statutory review had been conducted with the aim of finding closure for women who had undergone the procedure, and an ex gratia payment scheme had been implemented, which had been subject to a report

In that connection, due regard had to be had to the seriousness of the offence in issue.

As the young girls had been abandoned at birth and had not had any contact with their biological parents while alive, and one of the mothers had explicitly waived parental rights, the children had de facto

The Court therefore had to determine whether the interference had been necessary in a democratic society.

It had found that this type of complaint had to be examined from three angles.

The reports on the use of truncheons had not specified which officers had used them.

However, the investigating authorities had done none of this as soon as the matter had come to their attention.