European Parliament 29 November 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-3399/02 by Gerhard Hager (NI) to the Commission. Appeal proceedings Nos 98/4010 and 98/4826.

At the pre-trial detention centre, Mr Osenchugov and Mr Shinshkin were allegedly tortured by two other adult inmates, one of whom was Mr Petrov Michail Germanovitch, without the prison guards intervening, with the aim of forcing them to confess to other thefts.