Daniil Konstantinov filed a complaint with the ECHR

The founder of the Moscow defense league Daniil Konstantinov appealed to the European Court of Human Rights with a complaint against violation of the right to freedom through criminal prosecution. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to lawyer Damir Gainutdinov.

In the document sent to the ECHR, Konstantinov claims that the charge of the murder brought to him in 2012 became the revenge of employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the refusal to cooperate. According to Konstantinov, in December 2011, after the detention for participating in the protest rally, an employee of the Center “E” invited him to become an informant. The policeman threatened in case of refusal to make Konstantinov a defendant in a criminal case. After leaving the police, Konstantinov told his associates about this conversation.

On March 22, 2012, Konstantinov was detained and accused of the murder of a certain Alexei Temnikov. The crime was committed on December 3, 2011 on Academician Yangel Street. At the same time, the opposition had an undeniable Alibi: at that time he celebrated his mother’s birthday on Mira Avenue in the Daikon restaurant, which was confirmed by photographs, witnesses, billing, geolocation. In addition, the murdered person was not familiar to Konstantinov.

Konstantinov spent more than two and a half years behind bars. October 16, 2014 acting The deputy chairman of the Chertanovsky District Court Julia Chernikova found Konstantinov guilty of hooliganism and sentenced to three years the colony-settlement, after which she amnestied and released in the courtroom . Chernikov explained the basis for retraining from the murder of murder to hooliganism by the fact that the fact that Konstantinov was not proved by the fact that Konstantinov’s death was not proved, but it was supposedly proved that Konstantinov spat Temnikov on his sleeve and threatened with a knife.

The case was considered in court for a second time. The prosecutor both once requested 10 years of strict regime for the Police. The first trial in the case led by Judge Galina Türkina ended on December 26, 2013 with a return to the investigation.

On February 25, the Moscow City Court recognized the verdict to Konstantinov legal . Protection in the appeal demanded to make an acquittal. The day before the meeting, Konstantinov on the blog on the "Faces" wrote that he did not hope for the fair decision of the Moscow City Court .

"In my case, there was a pure falsification supported by the entire system of state power: the Investigative Committee, the prosecutor’s office, the Center" E ", the FSB and the courts. In these conditions, it is absurd to rely on the abolition of the decision of the court of first instance and the acquittal in appeal," Konstantinov noted.