The European Court has upheld three complaints against Russia

On 29 January, the European Court of Human Rights upheld 3 complaints against Russia regarding articles on the use of torture and the detention of prisoners in inhumane conditions in the period from 2001 to 2003, states the official website of the European Court.

As Polit.ru writes, the victims Vasily Andreevsky, Dmitry Antropov, and Alexey and Anton Maltabar complained that they had to spend years and months in overcrowded cells, sometimes together with rats and insects. One of the plaintiffs recounted that police officers used torture while trying to extract a confession of committing a crime from him. The European Court sentenced Russia to pay from 3,000 to 22,000 euros to each of the victims as compensation for moral damages.

Russia leads in the number of complaints to the European Court of Human Rights. It is followed by Turkey, Romania, and Ukraine, the Court’s annual report states.

In 2008, the European Court received 27,250 complaints against Russia (28% of the total number), 11,000 against Turkey (11.4%), 8,900 against Romania (9.1%), and 8,250 against Ukraine (8.5%). Further down the list are Italy with 4,200 complaints, Poland (3,500), Slovenia (3,200), Germany (2,500), Moldova (2,450), France (2,400), Bulgaria (2,250), and the Czech Republic (2,100).