Russia appealed the decision of the ECHR on compensation to Pussy Riot

The Ministry of Justice appealed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, obliging Russia to pay Pussy Riot to Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Toloconnikova and Ekaterina Samutsevich almost 50 thousand euros. The court considered that the Russian authorities violated the four articles of the Convention on Human Rights, Moscow did not agree with the decision, RIA Novosti writes with reference to the press service of the ministry.

"The decision of the European Court of Human Rights" Alekhin and others against Russia ", issued in July 2018, was appealed by the authorities of the Russian Federation in the prescribed manner," the department said.

Recall that in July of this year, the European Court of Human Rights issued a decision on a complaint by the participants of the Pussy Riot punk group for investigation and the court conducted in relation to them in Russia in connection with the action arranged by activists in 2012 in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

The court admitted that during the proceedings in this case the rights of the defendants were violated, and ordered Russia to pay them compensation for moral damage for a total of 37 thousand euros.

In particular, according to the ECHR, the Russian authorities violated 4 articles of the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - Art. 3 (ban on inhuman and humiliating the dignity of circulation), Art. 5 (right to freedom and personal integrity), Art. 6 (the right to a fair trial) and Art. 10 (freedom of expression).

In favor of Nadezhda Toloconnikova and Maria Alekhina, who received real terms in Russia, the court decided to recover 16 thousand euros from Russia. The third participant in Punk -Molebna - Ekaterina Samutsevich, the punishment for which was replaced by conditional - the ECHR awarded five thousand euros. In addition, activists will pay legal costs in the amount of 11 thousand 760 euros. Thus, in total, the ECHR recovered about 48 thousand euros from the Russian Federation in favor of Pussy Riot participants.

The plaintors themselves previously asked the Strasbourg court to recover 120 thousand euros from Russia as compensation for non -pecuniary damage and 10 thousand euros in reimbursement of legal costs.

Recall, the Pussy Riot action took place in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow at the end of February 2012. The activists came to the temple and, wearing the masks, performed the song "The Virgin, Putin of the run", in which they condemned the policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In total, five girls participated in the action, but the police managed to detain only three of them - Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikov and Ekaterina Samutsevich. It was not possible to find two other suspects.

In August 2012, the Khamovnican Court of Moscow sentenced all three detained participants to the two years in a general regime for hooliganism. Later, in the fall of the same year, the Moscow City Court replaced the real term for Samutsevich with conditional punishment. The verdict against Tolokonnikova and Alekhina was left unchanged. In December 2013, two other girls were released on amnesty. A few months after their release, the Moscow City Court softened the punishment for the girls for a month. The verdict was revised after the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the presence of numerous violations in it.