The ECHR ordered the payment of 173.5 thousand euros to 23 share applicants from Russia

On February 7, the European Court of Human Rights issued a ruling in the case “Lashmankin and others v. Russia,” which combined 15 complaints from 23 share applicants from different regions of Russia. According to the applicants, the Russian authorities violated their rights by introducing “unjustified restrictions on the peaceful public events they had planned.”

published by the ECHR, as a result of examining the complaints, concluded that there were indeed violations of the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights, in particular, Article 11 (freedom of assembly), Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) in conjunction with Article 11, Article 5 (right to liberty) and Article 6 (right to a fair trial), and decided to pay the applicants a total of 173.5 thousand euros.

The public events referred to in the resolution cover the period from 2009 to 2012. These are rallies in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova in Samara and Moscow, in 2010 and 2011 in, a rally demanding Putin’s resignation on March 20, 2011 in Kaliningrad, movement rallies in, and also on December 19, 2012 in front of the State Duma building against the adoption of the ban law for the adoption of Russian orphans by US citizens and others.

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