European Court of Human Rights said 9-year-old was subjected to 'ill-treatment' by Russian police, who allowed her to see her father being kicked.
A 9-year-old girl who witnessed her father being beaten while he was arrested by Russian police has been awarded damages, after a court ruled she had been tortured during the incident.
The incident took place in May 2008. The child's father, who was a police officer at the time, was arrested outside the girl's school as part of an undercover operation by the Federal Service for Drug Control unit. The internal inquiry also dismissed a witness statement from an electrician who said he saw the beating on the basis he was an alleged drug user and therefore"unreliable."
"The law-enforcement officers, who had been well aware that the applicant was on the scene of the operation, had proceeded without paying any attention to her presence, thus exposing her to a scene of violence against her father in the absence of any resistance on his part.
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