The ECHR communicated the complaint of the coordinator of the Cheboksary headquarters Alexei Navalny

Semyon Kochkin is appealing the prosecution under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and its consequences.

June 5, 2019 head project "Apology of Protest" lawyer Alexei Glukhov said that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) communicated the complaint of the coordinator of the Cheboksary headquarters Alexei Navalny Semyon Kochkin to be held liable under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or displaying symbols of prohibited organizations).

Recall that in At the end of May 2017, the Moscow District Court of Cheboksary fined Kochkin under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for one and a half thousand rubles, and at the end of June of the same year this decision was approved by the Supreme court of the Republic of Chuvashia.

The reason for the persecution of the activist was the fact that in August 2015 he made a repost on the social network VKontakte An excerpt from the satirical show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver translated Andrey Bocharov. We are talking about a video called "How Chechen girls swindled ISIS militants", in which the symbols of what is banned in Russia flicker "Islamic State". The video was about how three Chechen the girls entered into correspondence with the militants, defrauded them of money for travel to Syria, but they didn't go there. The moderator ridiculed the situation in which such fraud is becoming an effective counter-terrorism measure. It's obvious that the video did not pursue the goal of promoting the ideology and practice of the "Islamic state", so we believe that Kochkin was brought to responsibility is wrong. However, Russian law punishes public demonstration of prohibited symbols without regard to context. Previously Kochkin also tried to attract to responsibility for the repost of a collage with a swastika from the public of the singer Monetochka.

As a result of the fact that Kochkin was prosecuted under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, August 4, 2017 electoral the commission refused to register him for elections as a candidate for Tsivilsky District Assembly of Deputies.

Recall according to Russian electoral law, citizens punished for committing an administrative offense under 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, cannot be elected if the vote in the election takes place before the end of the term, within which a person is considered subjected to administrative punishment, that is, in within one year from the date of completion of the execution of the decision on the appointment administrative punishment. And since in July 2017 year Kochkin was brought to justice also under Part 1 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for organization and participation in the uncoordinated action "He is not Dimon to you" (then he mandatory work was appointed), he lost the right to organize public events for a year. shares in accordance with paragraph 1.1 of Art. 5 Federal Law "On Assemblies".

According to Glukhov, representing the interests of Kochkin, in a complaint to the ECtHR he noted that the Russian authorities in this case violated several articles European Convention on Human Rights: art. 6 (on the right to a fair litigation), Art. 7 (on punishment solely on the basis of law), Art. 10 (on the right to freedom of expression), art. 11 (on the right to freedom of assembly and association), as well as Art. 3 of Protocol No. 7 to the Convention (on compensation in case of miscarriage of justice). The ECtHR put before the Russian authorities questions about whether Kochkin's rights guaranteed by the indicated articles of the Convention.

Sources

• The ECtHR communicated an important case for the protesters. Message in the Telegram of the project "Apology of Protest". 2019. June 5.