sychiatric disorder. It also upheld the award of the medical expenses. It however quashed the award in respect of non-pecuniary damage to the applicant's mother, finding that she had not personally suffered any ill-treatment.
B. Ill-treatment by escorts on 27 June 2002
1. Criminal proceedings against the applicant on a charge
of robbery and the use of force by escorts in the courthouse
79. On 28 March 2001 the applicant was charged with robbery. On 26 September 2001 additional charges of several counts of robbery, theft and unlawful possession of firearms were brought against him.
80. On 12 April 2002 the Lipetsk Regional Court ordered the applicant's in-patient psychiatric examination. On 31 May 2002 a panel of psychiatrists of the Lipetsk Regional psychiatric hospital found that the applicant was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In view of his medical condition, his participation in the court hearings was considered inadvisable. The applicant needed in-patient psychiatric treatment.
81. On 27 June 2002 the applicant and four co-defendants were escorted to the Lipetsk Regional Court for a hearing. After the defendants refused to go into the courtroom, the presiding judge ordered that they be brought in by force. The defendants were informed of the judge's order and agreed to proceed to the courtroom. They were handcuffed and started to mount the stairs.
82. It appears from the reports of the escorts that on the stairs one of the defendants, Mr P., suddenly ran in the direction of the toilets, while the other defendants attacked the escorts. The escorts beat the defendants with rubber truncheons and managed to suppress the attack and to bring the defendants into the courtroom.
83. According to the applicant's mother, she and the relatives of the other defendants were waiting in the hall for the beginning of the hearing. She saw the escorts hitting the applicant and his co-defendants with truncheons while they were mounting the stairs. The applicant fell on the handrail and one of the escorts slapped and kicked him many times. The applicant fainted. He was dragged by the escorts across the floor into the cage inside the courtroom. She called an ambulance.
84. The ambulance doctors examined the applicant and concluded that he had had an epileptic fit. He was taken to Lipetsk hospital No. 4 for treatment.
85. It can be seen from a certificate issued on the same day by the head of Lipetsk hospital No. 4 that the diagnosis of an epileptic fit was confirmed by the hospital doctors, who also detected hyperemia (a medical condition in which blood congests in part of the body) of the applicant's neck.
86. The applicant was handcuffed to a hospital bed in the corridor. On the next day he was transferred back to the detention facility, the doctors' objections notwithstanding.
87. On 17 January 2003 the Lipetsk Regional Court ordered the applicant's confinement to a psychiatric hospital. On 31 January 2003 he was transferred to the Lipetsk Regional psychiatric hospital.
88. On 28 April 2003 the Lipetsk Regional Court found the applicant guilty of several counts of aggravated theft and robbery, decided not to sentence him because of his mental incapacity and ordered his compulsory psychiatric treatment.
89. On 26 November 2003 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the judgment on appeal.
90. On 25 March 2004 the Gryazi Town Court of the Lipetsk Region ordered that in-patient psychiatric treatment be replaced by out-patient psychiatric supervision. On 29 March 2004 the applicant was released from hospital.
2. Investigation into the alleged ill-treatment
91. On 1 July 2002 the applicant's mother asked the prosecutor's office of the Sovetskiy District
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