Date: 29 September 2009
The applicant, Valentin Polyakov, is a Russian national who was born in 1979 and is serving a prison sentence in the Tver Region (Russia). Relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), he complains that he was beaten by the police when arrested in October 1999 on suspicion of drug trafficking. He also complains under Article 6 § 3 (d) (right to a fair trial) that the domestic courts arbitrarily rejected his requests to examine witnesses in his favour in the criminal proceedings against him.
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)
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