The ECHR declared it illegal to keep defendants in a metal cage in the courtroom

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in a lawsuit filed by three Russian citizens, found their stay in a metal cage during the trial illegal and humiliating and demanded that the Russian Federation pay them from three to seven and a half thousand euros as compensation, the court decision says.

The court stated that from 2014 to 2015 it received three applications from citizens who did not know each other - Ruslan Vorontsov from Krasnoyarsk, Alexander Susarin from Cheboksary, and also from Evgeny Belyaev from Cherepovets.

In all three cases, the applicants complained that they were kept in a metal cage during the trial, which violated Article Three of the Human Rights Convention, which requires that no one be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

The court recognized that detention in metal cages violates the civil rights of the defendants, and ordered Russia to pay moral compensation to the victims: three thousand euros to Vorontsov and seven and a half thousand euros each to Susarin and Belyaev. The Cheboksary resident was also ordered to compensate one thousand euros for legal costs.

Vladimir Akimenkov, released under an amnesty in the Bolotnaya case, commented to Ekho Moskvy that he welcomed the decision of the ECHR and hoped for a positive decision on a similar complaint.

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