Another participant in the anti-corruption action on March 26 complained to the ECHR

Lawyers from the Memorial Human Rights Center prepared and submitted to the European Court of Human Rights a complaint from another person detained at the anti-corruption rally on March 26 in Moscow.

The applicant Denis Kapranov appealed to the ECHR with a complaint about a violation of Articles 10 and 11 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms (the right to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly), as well as Article 5 (the right to liberty and security of person) and Article 6 (the right to a fair trial).

Kapranov was detained at a rally on March 26 in Moscow; on April 7, the Tverskoy District Court found him guilty of violating the rules of participation in a rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). The complaint in the Moscow City Court was rejected.

During the detention of Kapranov during the anti-corruption action on March 26, many procedural violations were committed. Thus, the arrest report says that the activist was detained not at 16:00, but at 18:00, and during the arrest force was used against him. The protocol says that Kapranov was taken to the police department at 19:00, although in fact he spent several hours in the car and was delivered to the police department only at 21:00.

In the complaint, the lawyers refer, in particular, tothe decision of the ECHR on the complaint about the detention of politicians Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin, which states that it is generally not necessary to take a person detained at a protest to the police department, since a report can be drawn up on the spot.

Earlier, lawyers of the Memorial Human Rights Center filed complaints with the ECHR against eleven people detained on March 26 in Moscow. Among the applicants were people subjected to administrative arrest. The detainees complained that the police at the scene did not have identification marks. While they were in paddy wagons, some of them were not allowed to go to the toilet, were not given food or warm clothes, and those left overnight were not given a place to sleep. Some were required to submit fingerprints, although such measures can only be taken for those detained under administrative charges if they have documents.

On October 19, it became known that the European Court had registered complaints from those detained on March 26 in Krasnodar.