Alexey Gaskarov appealed to the ECHR

Alexey Gaskarov’s defense sent documents to the ECHR last Friday, Kommersant writes . In it, the person involved in the Bolotnaya case demands that Russia be found guilty of violating four key articles of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: the rights to a fair trial, freedom of opinion and freedom of assembly, as well as the prohibition of torture.

The complaint alleges that the police themselves instigated the riots in the square. As the lawyer of the oppositionist in Strasbourg, Natalya Dobreva, writes in the complaint, “it looks more like the authorities were going to intimidate the protest masses.” “The police, without warning, blocked the passage to the stage, creating a crush during the rally, which ultimately provoked the arrests,” the lawyer writes. During the clashes, Gaskarov himself received a head injury - his eyebrow was cut with a baton, Dobreva notes. His attempts to contact law enforcement agencies with a demand to initiate a criminal case on the fact that the police exceeded their powers were unsuccessful.