The applicant, Shaig Garayev, is an Uzbek national who was born in 1981. He has been detained since April 2008 in a remand facility in Baku pending extradition to Uzbekistan on charges of the murder of six persons and the mutilation of their corpses. Relying in particular on Articles 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and 13 (right to an effective remedy) of the European Convention on Human Rights, he alleged that, if extradited, he would be at risk of being tortured by the Uzbek law-enforcement authorities. He notably submitted that the Uzbek authorities had persecuted him and his family and subjected them to torture and inhuman and degrading treatment in the past. He also complained that his detention pending extradition was unlawful and that there had been no judicial review of his detention, in breach of Article 5 §§ 1 (f) and 4 (right to liberty and security) of the Convention.
(from the official press-release prepared by the Registry Office of the European Court of Human Rights)