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[ ] DECISIONS ON ADMISSIBILITY [ ] [ ] H.D. v. POLAND Prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment – admissible Article 3 Right to liberty – inadmissible Article 5, Section 1(e) Ill-treatment during arrest and during detention at a sobering-up centre On June a Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights unanimously declared partly admissible the application in the case of H.D. v. Poland . Summary of the facts The applicant, who suffers from diabetes, was arrested by policemen on a train, where she claimed she had fallen into a hypoglycaemic coma. The policemen, believing she was drunk, attempted to take her to the railway police station. She apparently resisted arrest and alleges that she was beaten and kicked. She was then taken to a sobering-up centre, where she was examined by a doctor who found her to be intoxicated. She maintained that she was refused insulin at the centre and was tied to a bed. A test showed alcohol in her blood. She was released after / hours. She was examined the following day by a forensic expert who
Human Rights Case Digest – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2001
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