Published on 13 October 2025
FIFTH SECTION
Applications nos. 7883/20 and 19424/20
Kostyantyn Volodymyrovych PETROV against Ukraine
and Roman Oleksandrovych OGUR against Ukraine
lodged on 28 January 2020 and 23 April 2020 respectively
communicated on 24 September 2025
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASES
The applications concern the applicants’ complaints under Article 3 of the Convention that they were ill-treated by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine and that there was no effective investigation in that respect.
The applicants provided evidence of certain injuries which could be sustained around the time they had been arrested and/or questioned.
Mr Petrov alleges that ill-treatment occurred on 11 April 2019. Criminal proceedings concerning his complaint in that respect were instituted on 2 May 2019. According to the most recently received information from the applicant, the investigation has been still ongoing.
Mr Ogur alleges that ill-treatment occurred on the night of 27 April 2017. Criminal proceedings concerning his complaint in that respect were instituted on 17 July 2017 and eventually discontinued on 15 July 2021 for lack of evidence that an offence had been committed.
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’ ill-treatment complaints by the domestic authorities compatible with the requirements of Article 3 of the Convention?