The ECHR communicated and gave priority to the complaint of Sergei Udaltsov

The European Court of Human Rights will give priority consideration to the complaint of Sergei Udaltsov, who was sentenced to 4.5 years of general regime for organizing mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. about this in his LiveJournal The defender of the convicted person, Dmitry Agranovsky, wrote .

As Agranovsky writes, the ECHR communicated and gave priority to Udaltsov’s complaint about inhumane treatment, lack of a fair trial, illegal composition of the court, violation of the right to defense, freedom of speech and assembly.

According to the lawyer, the European Court has posed questions to the Russian Government that must be answered by May 4, 2016.

In July 2014, the Moscow City Court sentenced oppositionists Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev to four and a half years in prison each on charges of organizing mass riots on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012. The Supreme Court later declared this sentence legal.