Defender of Torfyanka Park complained to the ECHR

The defender of the Torfyanka park, Vadim Ozhogin, complained to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg about the decision of the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow, which in December 2016 fined Ozhogin a thousand rubles under Art. 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism). This was reported on the Memorial website.

On November 27, Ozhogin was walking through the park to the store and decided to walk to the place where the church was originally planned to be built to see what was happening there. At that moment, Orthodox activists were praying there. When the prayer ended, Ozhogin shouted to the priest, "Get out of the park." Then he saw the police detain one of the park's defenders. Ozhogin approached them and tried to find out the reason for the detention. As a result, he himself was detained . Moreover, he was detained at the behest of a man in civilian clothes.

The police officers who detained Ozhogin differed in their testimony in court. One said that Ozhogin swore, and the other said that he swore, but definitely not a foul language. The judge persistently repeated the same question to the policeman - could the partners hear different things or not? She asked him until the policeman agreed that they could. The judge forbade uttering abusive words in court, and even forbade writing them on pieces of paper, and did not even allow me to write down the first letters of words.

According to the applicant and his representatives, the executive authorities of the Russian Federation violated Art. 5 (right to liberty and security of person), Art. 6 (right to a fair trial) and Art. 10 (right to freedom of expression) of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.