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- 2000/06/27
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56pp
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Published judgment in the Behiye Salman case (A44/43/1/51). On 27 June 2000, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that there had been a violation of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights with respected to Agit Salman’s death in custody (16 votes to 1), that there had been violations of Article 2 with regards to the failure to carry out an effective and adequate investigation into the death and of Article 3 (unanimous), that there had been a violation of Article 13 (16 votes to 1), and that Turkey failed to comply with its obligations under former Article 25 § 1 (unanimous). The Turkish Government were ordered to pay Behiye Salman £39,320.64 sterling in pecuniary damages, £35,000 sterling in non-pecuniary damages, and £21,544.58 sterling in legal fees and expenses (less 11,195 French francs awarded in legal aid). The full judgment is available for viewing in English at https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/?i=001-58735
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French