6.  The applicants were born in 1973 and 1978 respectively. They currently live in Sweden. 7.  In 1999 and 2000 the first applicant, Mohammad Jaber Alipour, a veterinary surgeon, opened a veterinary clinic in Iran. Following the denunciation by the State authorities in Iran on religious grounds of the feeding of cats and dogs (since keeping pets was seen as propagating Western culture), the authorities began to put pressure on the applicant to close down his clinic. As the applicant failed to do so, the clinic was closed down by the authorities. Despite this, the applicant continued to be harassed by State officials. 8.  On 28 November 2000 the applicant arrived in Turkey. He claimed that he had had to flee Iran as he had been harassed and persecuted by the State authorities for having opened a veterinary clinic in the city of Oromoyeh. 9.  In 2004 the applicant's request for asylum was rejected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and subsequently by the Ministry of the Interior. The applicant's objection to the Ministry's decision was also dismissed. While the applicant claimed that he had not been notified of the outcome of his objection, the Government submitted that in March 2005 the applicant had gone to the Afyon police headquarters but refused to be served with the decision dismissing his objection. 10.  On 6 November 2007 the applicant filed a petition with the Ministry of the Interior requesting a residence permit on the ground that he wished to marry an Iranian refugee in Afyon. 11.  On 29 November 2007 the director of the department responsible for aliens, borders and asylum attached to the General Police Headquarters requested the Afyon police to apprehend and deport the applicant as soon as possible. The director's letter gave the applicant's home address and his mobile telephone number. 12.  On an unspecified date the UNHCR reopened the applicant's file. 13.  On 10 January 2008 the applicant was arrested by police officers in Afyon, his city of residence. He claimed that the officers had told him that he was being arrested with a view to his deportation to Iran. Although he explained to the police that his file was under examination by the UNHCR, he was taken to Ağrı, where he escaped from the police. The deportation order was not served on him. The applicant further claimed that, when they had arrested him, the police had confiscated his passport, with the result that he could not appoint a lawyer to represent him. 14.  On 12 January 2008 a police director from the Afyon police headquarters sent a letter to the General Police Headquarters and all provincial police headquarters. He explained in his letter that the applicant had gone missing while being deported. Noting that the applicant might go to the UNHCR's Ankara office for his interview, which was to be held on 28 January 2008, he asked the police directors to take all necessary steps to apprehend him. 15.  On 17 January 2008 the UNHCR's Ankara office interviewed the applicant. 16.  On 6 February 2008 the first applicant was granted refugee status under the UNHCR's Mandate. 17.  On 22 February 2008 the President of the Second Section decided to extend until further notice the interim measure indicated under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court. She also decided to request the applicant to inform the Court whether he would be applying to the relevant domestic authorities for his identity documents, so that his representative could take the necessary legal steps regarding the deportation order issued in his respect and request his transfer to a third country following the UNHCR decision of 6 February 2008 recognising him as a refugee. 18.  On 8 April 2008 the respondent Government informed the Court that on 11 March 2008 the applicant had gone to the Afyon police headquarters. The applicant had then been placed in the Kırklareli Aliens' Admission and Accommodation Centre. 19.  On 26 June 2008 the applicant issued his representative with a notarised power of attorney to represent him in Turkey. Subsequently, on 13 July 2008, the applicant's representative lodged a petition with the administrative authorities, seeking the annulment of the decision to hold the applicant in the Kırklareli Foreigners' Admission and Accommodation Centre. He subsequently brought a case before the Ankara Administrative Court requesting the first applicant's release from the facility . 20.  On 20 March 2009 the Ankara Administrative Court dismissed the request for suspension of the administrative decision to hold the first applicant in the Kırklareli Foreigners' Admission and Accommodation Centre. The proceedings are currently pending before the same court. 21.  On 24 April 2009, on a request from the UNHCR, the Government of Sweden accepted the first applicant within the refugee quota for Sweden. A plane ticket to Stockholm was booked for the applicant for 27 May 2009. The applicant's transfer had to be postponed since the national authorities did not authorise the applicant's release and departure to Sweden. 22.  On 24 and 29 March 2010 the Government and the applicant's representative informed the Court respectively that the applicant had left Turkey on 4 March 2010 and arrived in Sweden where he was granted refugee status. 23.  The applicant submitted that he did not have access to a doctor in the Kırklareli Foreigners' Admission and Accommodation Centre. The buildings were old and had not been renovated. The rooms were crowded. The bedding was also old and dirty. The toilets were very dirty and were rarely cleaned. The authorities did not provide proper cleaning materials to the detainees for them to do the cleaning either. The cleaning products given to the detainees had passed their expiry dates eight to nine years earlier, thus exposing detainees to the risk of several diseases, in particular cancer, if they used them. As a result of the poor detention conditions, the applicant suffered from skin diseases and infections. The applicant submitted digital photographs of various locations in the detention centre such as the bedrooms, kitchen and toilets, in support of his allegations. In one room there were two bunk beds on which there were pillows and blankets. There was no bed linen on the beds. In another room there were two beds with bed linen, pillows and blankets. The photographs of the kitchen sinks and cookers showed that the latter were unusable. Another photograph showed that there were four sinks in the bathroom. Inside, the toilets were partially covered with a dark substance. Photographs of the cleaning products that had labels in the Cyrillic alphabet showed that their dates had expired nine to ten years ago. 24.  On 13 July 2008, when the applicant's representative lodged a petition with General Police Headquarters requesting that the applicant be released (see paragraph 19 above), he also asked that the applicant be provided with medical assistance. In his petition, the applicant's representative further noted that the conditions of detention in the Kırklareli Foreigners' Admission and Accommodation Centre were inhuman and constituted a breach of Article 3 of the Convention. 25.  On 27 August 2008 the applicant, together with four other persons including the second applicant, started a hunger strike to protest about his placement and the physical conditions in the Centre. 26.  Furthermore, although the applicant was suffering from a hernia and required an operation, the authorities did not take any steps to provide him with medical treatment. He received no reply to his requests to be operated on for his condition.
(b)  The Government's account 27.  The Government submitted that all the bedrooms in the Kırklareli Foreigners' Admission and Accommodation Centre, which was not a detention centre, were equipped with cleaning and personal hygiene items, namely soap, towels and other similar items; the bedding was changed every week. Hygiene standards were maintained in the kitchen and the cafeteria and the food provided in the facility was the same as that provided to students in police academies. They noted that the applicant and the other foreign nationals were not allowed to cook in the Centre. The Government contended that hot water was provided at least two days a week and that the sanitary facilities were checked frequently. 28.  The Government further maintained that the applicant had been provided with medical assistance on nineteen occasions between 21 April and 11 November 2008 while he was being held in the Kırklareli Centre and had undergone an operation. According to the documents submitted by the Government, the applicant had undergone orthopaedic surgery on 10 October 2008 in relation to an old thighbone fracture in the Kırklareli State Hospital at his request. He was hospitalised between 9 and 17 October 2008 and a femoral implant which had been inserted following the accident was taken out. The applicant was examined by a general practitioner in relation to his muscle pains and pain related to a thighbone fracture which he suffered due to an old traffic accident that he had had in 1998. He was also examined by an ophthalmologist, a neurologist and a dentist and prescribed medication or treatment. 29.  In 2002, while living in Iran, the applicant had a relationship with a man, as a result of which she was tortured by her father.  In 2004 she met another man who was an asylum seeker in Turkey. As she was being forced to marry her cousin, she left Iran with this man and arrived in Turkey on 28 August 2004. In September 2004 they married in Turkey. In December 2007 the applicant obtained a divorce as her husband, a drug addict, had forced her into prostitution. 30.  On unspecified dates the applicant applied to the Ministry of the Interior and the UNHCR requesting temporary asylum and refugee status respectively. 31.  On 8 January 2008 the UNHCR's Ankara office recognised the applicant as a refugee. 32.  On 14 March 2008 the applicant was notified that her request for temporary asylum had been rejected by the Ministry of the Interior. On the same day she was arrested by police officers from the Burdur police headquarters. 33.  On an unspecified date, following the President's decision to apply Rule 39 of the Rules of Court, the applicant was placed in the Kırklareli Foreigners' Admission and Accommodation Centre. 34.  On 13 July 2008 the applicant's representative lodged a petition with the General Police Headquarters, requesting that the applicant be released. In his petition, the applicant's representative further noted that the conditions of detention in the Kırklareli Foreigners' Admission and Accommodation Centre were inhuman. 35.  On 27 August 2008 the applicant, together with four other persons including the first applicant, started a hunger strike to protest about her placement and the physical conditions in the Centre. 36.  In the meantime, on 8 July 2008, the applicant issued her representative with a notarised power of attorney to represent her in Turkey. Subsequently, the representative brought a case before the Ankara Administrative Court requesting the applicant's release from the facility where she was being held, noting that the applicant was due to have an interview with the Canadian Consulate with a view to obtaining refugee status in Canada. The lawyer also asked the court to order a stay of execution of the applicant's detention. 37.  On 6 March 2009 the Ankara Administrative Court suspended the administrative decision to hold the second applicant in the Kırklareli Foreigners' Admission and Accommodation Centre and ordered her release with a view to facilitating her interview at the Canadian Consulate. The court also ordered that the applicant be granted a residence permit until her transfer to Canada. The applicant was subsequently transferred to Eskişehir. 38.  On an unspecified date the Government of Sweden accepted the second applicant within the refugee quota for Sweden. A plane ticket to Sweden was booked for the applicant for 10 August 2009. 39.  On 24 July 2009 the Ministry of the Interior authorised the applicant's departure from Turkey to Sweden. 40.  On an unspecified date the applicant left Turkey and went to Sweden.