
Lawyers Ksenia Kostromin and Alexei Lipzer filed a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court of the sentence to Ildar Dadin. This was reported by the wife of political prisoners Anastasia Zotova.
Protection asks the Armed Forces to cancel the sentence as not complies with Russian law. "We consider the verdict illegal and unreasonable, and Article 212.1 of the contradictory Constitution of the Russian Federation itself," Kostromina told Interfax.
On December 7, 2015, the judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow Natalia Dudar sentenced Dadina to three years of general regime ( 

This was the first sentence under Article 212.1, included in the Code in 2014.
On August 5, Tatyana Moskalkova, the Commissioner for Human Rights, filed a cassation appeal in the Armed Forces
On October 4, the defense appealed the sentence to Dadin in the European Court of Human Rights . As stated in the complaint, Russia violated in relation to Dadin Article 11 (freedom of assembly and associations) and 6 (the right to a fair trial) of the European Convention, as well as Article 4 (the right to not be attracted to a second trial or punishment) of Protocol No. 7 to this convention.
On November 1, a letter from Dadin Zotova was published, which was recorded from his words by lawyer Alexei Lipzer on October 31. In a letter, Politzek talked about the torture that he was subjected to in the Karelian IK-7 . In the FSIN, these facts deny these facts, but Dadin himselfconfirmed them to the human rights activists who visited him . The IK-7 prisoners also talked about torture, which other convicts were subjected to at different times.
In support of Dadin, protests are held. Human rights activists, politicians, and cultural figures made his defense.
The ECHR applied urgent (interim) measures to the application for torture in the colony. In addition, the ECHR on his own initiative assigned a complaint priority . By November 17, Russia should provide the Strasbourg forensic documents, for which Dadin’s medical examination is immediately conducted by doctors independent of the Federal Penitentiary Service. The ECHR also ordered access to Dadin to the applicant, lawyer of the fund Nikolai Zboroshenko.