The ECHR communicated the complaint of Pussy Riot members

In early December 2013, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) communicated the complaint of members of the Pussy Riot group.

On December 23, 2013, it became known that on December 2, 2013, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) communicated the complaint "Maria Vladimirovna Alekhina and Others v. Russia", filed by their defenders Yonko Grozev and Irina Khrunova on February 6, 2013.

The ECtHR, in particular, Russia faces the following questions:

1. Were there any violations during the trial? the provisions of art. 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits inhuman or degrading treatment?

2. Did it violate Art. 3 convention premise members of Pussy Riot in a glass cage during a court session?

3. Did the duration of the preliminary conclusion "reasonable time", under Art. 5 § 3 of the Convention. Were the grounds for the defendants' detention "relevant" and "sufficient"?

4. Was the right of the applicants to a fair trial under Art. 6 § 1 of the Convention. In particular,

a) whether the applicants could exercise their right to the defense required in § 3 of Art. 6c of the Convention, in the absence of the possibility of confidential communication with lawyers and personal meetings with the defense during the trial; b) whether the applicants were in a position to effectively challenge the reports of the experts involved in the investigation. Did they have the opportunity to freely ask questions of the experts? Were the applicants able to obtain the participation of experts in the hearing? Was the right of the applicants to refutation and counter-evidence, provided for by Art. 6 § 3d of the Convention, were the experts on an equal footing with the experts involved by the prosecution?

1. Is the prosecution and sentence for an action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on February 21, 2012 as a violation of the law to freedom of expression under Art. 10 of the Convention?

2. Does Art. 10 convention decision on the recognition of the video recording of the performance of the group Pussy Riot as extremist material, adopted on November 29 2012 Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow?

3. In addition, the court asked the Russian government for copies of the video recordings of the applicants, who were identified as extremist.

December 23, 2013 Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were released under an amnesty.

Earlier, the ECHR filed a complaint by Ekaterina Samutsevich, which was accepted by the ECHR for consideration in December 2012, and a complaint about the ban on the group's videos as extremist.

Recall that Pussy Riot members were convicted for an action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy motivated by hatred), Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina received two years in prison in a penal colony, Yekaterina Samutsevich received two years of probation with a two-year probationary period. We consider this verdict unjustified.

Sources

• Application no. 38004/12 Mariya Vladimirovna ALEKHINA and others against Russia // European Court of Human Rights. 2013. 2 December.