The European Court declared the arrest of Navalny and Yashin illegal on December 5, 2011

The European Court of Human Rights declared the arrest of Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin after a mass event on December 5, 2011 on Chistoprudny Boulevard illegal. Navalny’s blog about this on Twitter, the message contains a fragment of the ECHR decision. The court in the actions of the Russian authorities violated a number of articles of the European Convention on Human Rights: Article 11 (freedom of assembly and association), Article 6 (clause 1: right to a fair trial), Article 5 (clause 1: right to liberty and security of person) ), Article 13 (right to an effective remedy), Article 3 (prohibition of torture - the ECHR assessed the conditions of detention as torture). The court decided to award Navalny and Yashin 26 thousand euros each as compensation for moral damage and 2,500 euros to Navalny as compensation for costs.

reportedly arrested for 15 days after being detained on December 5 Navalny and Yashin were , when people who came to the event, dissatisfied with the results of the Duma elections, staged a procession. About 300 people were detained that day.