CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 13 janvier 2025

.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 } .s6C3B0BAF { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:28.35pt } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s5FFF0A75 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:7pt } .s75A32C27 { border-collapse:collapse } .s3695F815 { border:0.75pt solid #949494; padding:1.02pt 5.03pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#dfdfdf } .s598389F8 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; font-size:11pt } .sEECE831 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; color:#474747 } .sC7F8CD85 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:6pt; text-align:center; font-size:11pt } .sAC521AF { border:0.75pt solid #949494; padding:1.02pt 5.03pt; background-color:#dfdfdf } .sE8934522 { border:0.75pt solid #949494; padding:1.02pt 5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .s304E8EB8 { margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; font-size:11pt } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .s2EB42ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt } Published on 3 February 2025   FIFTH SECTION Application no. 30134/17 Oleksiy Oleksandrovych PADALKA against Ukraine and 2 other applications (see list appended) communicated on 13 January 2025 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASES The applications concern allegations of ill-treatment by law-enforcement authorities and the lack of effective domestic investigation in respect of these allegations. The applicants rely on Articles   3, 6 and 13 of the Convention. QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES 1.     Have the applicants been subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, in breach of Article   3 of the Convention?   2.     Having regard to the procedural protection from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment (see Labita v.   Italy [GC], no.   26772/95, 131, ECHR   2000-IV and Kaverzin v. Ukraine , no.   23893/03, §§   169-182, 15   May 2012), was the investigation of the applicants’ relevant complaints by the domestic authorities compatible with the requirements of Article   3 of the Convention?     APPENDIX Application no. Case name Lodged on Applicant Year of Birth Place of Residence Alleged ill-treatment 30134/17 Padalka v.   Ukraine 04/04/2017 Oleksiy Oleksandrovych PADALKA 1992 Lebedyn 04-11/08/2012 Officers of the Lebedyn municipal police Multiple bruises and abrasions 2544/19 Gorbanenko v. Ukraine 26/12/2018   Mykola Kostyantynovych GORBANENKO 1991 Dnipro 07-10/03/2015 Officers of the Babushkinsyy district police in Dnipro Cranio-cerebral injury, chest and ribs contusion, multiple hematomas and abrasions 7397/19 Kovalskyy v. Ukraine 23/01/2019 Roman Viktorovych KOVALSKYY 1988 Makedony   05-12/11/2008 Officers of the Baryshivka and Berezan police Police officers squeezed the applicant’s genitals having first blind ‑ folded him and having inserted a piece of foam in his mouth to prevent him from screaming; pushed and manhandled him while he was handcuffed; and threatened him with torture with a view to obtaining self ‑ incriminating statements during the period when the applicant was detained for having allegedly committed an administrative offence