Published on 3 February 2025
 
FIFTH SECTION
Application no. 30134/17
Oleksiy Oleksandrovych PADALKA against Ukraine
and 2 other applications
(see list appended)
communicated on 13 January 2025
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASES
The applications concern allegations of ill-treatment by law-enforcement authorities and the lack of effective domestic investigation in respect of these allegations. The applicants rely on Articles 3, 6 and 13 of the Convention.
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
1.  Have the applicants been subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention?
 
2.  Having regard to the procedural protection from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment (see Labita v. Italy [GC], no. 26772/95, 131, ECHR 2000-IV and Kaverzin v. Ukraine, no. 23893/03, §§ 169-182, 15 May 2012), was the investigation of the applicants’ relevant complaints by the domestic authorities compatible with the requirements of Article 3 of the Convention?
 
 
APPENDIX
Application no.
Case name
Lodged on
Applicant
Year of Birth
Place of Residence
Alleged ill-treatment
30134/17
Padalka v. Ukraine
04/04/2017
Oleksiy Oleksandrovych PADALKA
1992
Lebedyn
04-11/08/2012
Officers of the Lebedyn municipal police
Multiple bruises and abrasions
2544/19
Gorbanenko v. Ukraine
26/12/2018
 
Mykola Kostyantynovych
GORBANENKO
1991
Dnipro
07-10/03/2015
Officers of the Babushkinsyy district police in Dnipro
Cranio-cerebral injury, chest and ribs contusion, multiple hematomas and abrasions
7397/19
Kovalskyy v. Ukraine
23/01/2019
Roman Viktorovych KOVALSKYY
1988
Makedony
 
05-12/11/2008
Officers of the Baryshivka and Berezan police
Police officers squeezed the applicant’s genitals having first blind‑folded him and having inserted a piece of foam in his mouth to prevent him from screaming; pushed and manhandled him while he was handcuffed; and threatened him with torture with a view to obtaining self‑incriminating statements during the period when the applicant was detained for having allegedly committed an administrative offence