The court rejected Ildar Dadin's claim for transfer and detention in a colony

On September 19, the Zheleznodorozhny City Court of the Moscow Region rejected Ildar Dadin’s claim against the Federal Penitentiary Service and the administration of IK-7 of Karelia. Interfax reports this with reference to lawyer Nikolai Zboroshenko, who represented Dadin’s interests.

Dadin's lawsuit included complaints about transfer to IK-7, the conditions of transfer, eight disciplinary sanctions in the colony, and the denial of access to a lawyer in the colony.

Ildar Dadin was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on charges of “repeated violations of the rules for holding public events.” The lawsuit stated that being transferred to a colony in Karelia contradicts Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which enshrines the right to respect for private and family life, and therefore he had no right to be sent to serve his sentence so far from home.

While in the colony, Dadin reported in November 2016 about the torture he suffered in the colony. Lawyer Natalya Vasilkova was not allowed to visit him in the colony soon after he refused to be examined by epileptologist Vasily Generalov, who came to him from Moscow in connection with reports that Dadin had suffered an attack similar to an epileptic one. Dadin insisted that the examination be carried out only in the presence of a lawyer, who was not nearby at the time.

At the beginning of December 2016, it became known that Dadin was sent to a colony in another region. He made contact from the colony in the Altai Territory only after more than a month. On February 22, 2017, the Supreme Court decided to close Dadin's case and release him.