The European Court of Human Rights, in its judgment in the case of M.B. and Others v. Slovakia (No. 2) of 7 February 2023, ruled on the violation of the rights of six Roma boys who faced violence at a police station in Košice in 2009. The ECtHR ruled that the responsible state authorities had violated both their right to protection from police violence and their right to an effective investigation of that violence, including an investigation into its possible racial motive. This violated their guaranteed right to protection against inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under Article 3 of the Convention in its substantive and procedural parts. They also violated their right to protection against discrimination in the enjoyment of their guaranteed rights and freedoms under Article 14, in its procedural part, on the ground that the State authorities failed to investigate sufficiently the possible racial motive for the violence against them.