CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 19 juin 2003

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .s94935B0F { width:389.85pt; display:inline-block } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .s2CA41382 { width:8.76pt; display:inline-block } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s331C3E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:6pt } .s8AD34D0 { margin-top:6pt; margin-left:20.15pt; margin-bottom:6pt; text-indent:8.8pt; font-size:10pt } .s47E2B0C6 { margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sADADF4A7 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .s3964C3A3 { width:1.36pt; display:inline-block } .s901C2590 { width:56.7pt; display:inline-block } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS     330   19.6.2003   Press release issued by the Registrar   CHAMBER JUDGMENT CONCERNING TURKEY   The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing the following Chamber judgment, which is final.   Ülkü Doğan and Others v. Turkey (application no. 32270/96)   Friendly settlement   Allegations of torture while in police custody   Ülkü Doğan, born in 1964, and Celal Yalçıtaş and Servet Çolak, both born in 1968, are Turkish nationals living in Adana. They claimed that they were arrested on 11 May 1996 and a large number of documents seized from them. According to the police, they were arrested on 12   May 1996. On 13 May 1996 the Adana public prosecutor authorised their detention in police custody for 15 days. On 26   November 1996 they were convicted by the Konya State Security Court of spreading propaganda for an armed terrorist organisation ( Ekim ) and sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment and a fine. They unsuccessfully appealed.   They complained, under Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the Convention, that they were ill-treated while in police custody and made further complaints under Article 5 § 3 (right to be brought promptly before a judge); Article 5 § 4 (right to have lawfulness of detention decided speedily by a court); Article 6 § 3 (c) (right to legal assistance of own choosing); and Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination).   The case has been struck out following a friendly settlement in which 80,000 euros is to be paid for any damage sustained and for costs and expenses. The Turkish Government have also made the following declaration:   “1. The Government regret the occurrence, as in the present case, of individual cases of ill-treatment by the authorities of persons detained in custody notwithstanding existing Turkish legislation and the resolve of the Government to prevent such actions. It is accepted that the recourse to ill-treatment of detainees as claimed in the present case constitute a violation of Article 3 of the Convention. The Government undertake to issue appropriate instructions and adopt all necessary measures to ensure that the prohibition of such acts and the obligation to carry out effective investigations are respected in the future. The Government refer in this connection to the commitments which they undertook in the Declaration agreed on in Application no. 34382/97 and reiterate their resolve to give effect to those commitments. They note that new legal and administrative measures have been adopted which have resulted in a reduction in the occurrence of ill-treatment in circumstances similar to those of the instant case as well as more effective investigations. … ”. (The judgment is available only in English.)   ***   This summary by the Registry does not bind the Court. The full text of the Court’s judgment is accessible on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Registry of the European Court of Human Rights F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex Contacts:   Roderick Liddell (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 24 92)   Joanna Reynell (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15)   Stéphanie Klein (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 21 54) Fax: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 27 91   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. On 1 November 1998 a full-time Court was established, replacing the original two-tier system of a part-time Commission and Court.