Altyn Urda leader Danis Safargali complained to the ECHR

The defense of the leader of the Altyn Urda (Golden Horde) movement Danis Safargali sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights. This was reported on the Idel website. realities."

According to Irina Khrunova, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, who drafted the complaint, Russia violated two articles of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in relation to Safargali. The complaint states that in terms of charges of inciting hatred and hostility, Russian courts violated Safargali's right to a fair trial and the right to freedom of expression.

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan, which passed the verdict, was “critical” of the conclusion of specialists from the Nizhny Novgorod State University named after Lobachevsky. The university expert who spoke in court said that the publications on Safargali’s page do not contain signs of extremism.

— Specialist Koltunova E.A. argued in court that the texts submitted for examination are conflict-prone, but have nothing to do with either interethnic or interreligious oppositions,” Khrunova told Idel. realities." “They are aimed at criticizing the current government, there is no extremism in them, they are just criticism of the government.” The court indicated that the conclusion of experts from Nizhny Novgorod State University is only the private opinion of specialists.

On August 31, Safargali was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of inciting hatred and enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code), hooliganism (Article 213), causing minor harm to health (Part 2 of Article 115) and battery (Article 116). You can read more about this case in the OVD-Info material.