Martinez Sala And Others v Spain: ECHR 2 Nov 2004

ECHR Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction) – No violation of Art. 3 regarding the allegations of ill-treatments; Violation of Art. 3 regarding the lack of effective investigation; Non-pecuniary damage – financial award; Costs and expenses award – domestic proceedings; Costs and expenses partial award – Convention proceedings.
ECHR Court found that the Spanish authorities had failed to carry out an effective official investigation into the applicants’ allegations that they were ill-treated in police custody when arrested in the summer of 1992, shortly before the Olympic Games in Barcelona, in connection with an investigation into terrorist offences.
No violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment)
Violation of Article 3 (investigation)

Citations:

58438/00, [2004] ECHR 582

Links:

Wordlii, Bailii

Jurisdiction:

Human Rights

Cited by:

JudgmentMartinez Sala And Others v Spain ECHR 8-Aug-2011
Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights . .
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Human Rights, Prisons

Updated: 01 July 2022; Ref: scu.227731