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The ECHR ordered Russia to pay 2 thousand euros to a resident of Yekaterinburg for an interrupted single picket
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Russia to pay Yekaterinburg resident Vladimir Kapustin two thousand euros in compensation for moral damages because a police officer interrupted his solo picket. This is reported by “Apology of Protest”.
In December 2006, Kapustin stood at the post office with a poster “United Russia Party—poverty and extinction” during the party congress. A traffic police officer approached him and told him to go to the police department for a conversation. When Kapustin refused, the policeman warned him of responsibility for failure to comply with the demands of a government official. “Under pain of punishment,” Kapustin went to the department and stayed there for about an hour; no report was drawn up against him.
The European Court found that the local resident's right to liberty and security of person (Article 5 of the European Convention) and freedom of expression (Article 10) had been violated.