Information Note on the Court’s case-law 9

August 1999

Satık and Others v. Turkey (dec.) - 31866/96

Decision 31.8.1999 [Section I]

Article 3

Inhuman treatment

Applicants allegedly beaten up by prison staff after refusing to submit to search: admissible

The applicants allege that they were severely beaten by prison staff and gendarmes following their refusal to submit to a search procedure, which they considered arbitrary, before being taken to court. The Government disputed this version of the incident. They maintained that more than 20 prisoners refused to be searched and linked themselves together as they proceeded towards the prison exit. While going down some stairs that led to the exit, they fell on top of one another and hit themselves on the banister and the walls.

Admissible under Articles 2 and 3.

© Council of Europe/European Court of Human Rights This summary by the Registry does not bind the Court.

Cli ck here for the Case-Law Information Notes