Published on 16 December 2024
 
THIRD SECTION
Application nos. 58553/18 and 27303/19
Afgan SADIGOV against Azerbaijan
and Babak HASANOV against Azerbaijan
communicated on 28 November 2024
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The applications concern the applicants’ alleged ill-treatment by police officers and ineffective investigations into those allegations.
According to the applicants, they were ill-treated by the police officers during their arrest and/or in police custody, following which they lodged criminal complaints with the prosecuting authorities.
While in application no. 58553/18 the applicant has not received any reply to his criminal complaint, in application no. 27303/19 the prosecuting authorities rejected the applicant’s complaints of ill-treatment as unsubstantiated. The applicants’ complaints against the prosecuting authorities lodged before the domestic courts were unsuccessful.
The applicants complain under Article 3 of the Convention that they were subjected to ill-treatment by the police and that the domestic authorities failed to conduct an effective investigation in that regard.
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
1.  Have the applicants been subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention (see Labita v. Italy [GC], no. 26772/95, § 119, ECHR 2000-IV, and Mustafa Hajili v. Azerbaijan, no. 42119/12, §§ 34-37, 24 November 2016)?
 
2.  Having regard to the procedural protection from torture or inhuman or degrading treatment (see Labita, cited above, § 131, and Mustafa Hajili, cited above, §§ 47-48), were the investigations in the present cases by the domestic authorities in breach of Article 3 of the Convention?
 
The Government are requested to submit copies of all documents concerning the investigations into the alleged ill-treatment (complaints, decisions and other relevant documents).