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issued by the Registrar of the Court ECHR 341 (2013) 21.11.2013 Chamber judgment concerning Belgium The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing one Chamber judgment1. This judgment is not final and is available only in French. The Court has also delivered today a judgment in the case of Putistin v. Ukraine (application no. 16882/03), for which a separate press release has been issued. Bouyid v. Belgium (application no. 23380/09) The applicants, Sa�d and Mohamed Bouyid, are two brothers, Belgian nationals, who were born in 1986 and 1979 and live in the municipality of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, part of the Bruxelles-Capitale district. Relying in particular on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), they complained that they had been slapped on the face by police officers, one on 8 December 2003, the other on 23 February 2004, when they were in the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode police station, and pointed out that these incidents had occurred in a context of tense relations between their family and certain police officers in that station, of which they were neighbours. No violation of Article 3 This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions, judgments and further information about the Court can be found on www.echr.coe.int. To receive the Court's press releases, please subscribe here: www.echr.coe.int/RSS/en or follow us on Twitter @ECHR_Press. Press contacts [email protected] | tel: +33 3 90 21 42 08 Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel: + 33 3 88 41 35 30) Nina Salomon (tel: + 33 3 90 21 49 79) Denis Lambert (tel: + 33 3 90 21 41 09) Jean Conte (tel: + 33 3 90 21 58 77) The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. 1 Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a judgment's delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If such a request is made, a panel of five judges considers whether the case deserves further examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and deliver a final judgment. If the referral request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the Convention, judgments delivered by a Committee are final. Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for supervision of its execution. Further information about the execution process can be found here: www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution