The ECHR awarded 140 thousand euros on complaints of violation of the rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of speech

The ECtHR awarded about 140,000 euros in compensation for complaints about detentions at peaceful protests and about the “extremist poster” “Freedom is not given - freedom is taken”. This was reported to OVD-Info by the Memorial Human Rights Center.

Russia was ordered to pay 5,000 euros to each of the 22 detainees on February 24, 2014 at the Zamoskvoretsky District Court and in the area of ​​Tverskaya Street, as well as at the same court on February 21, 2014 .

On February 21 and 24, people came to support the defendants in the Bolotnaya case for the announcement of the verdict. The police did not let them into the courthouse, so the listeners remained near it. The police believed that the activists organized the rally in this way, and began arrests. On the evening of September 24, the security forces were already detaining participants in a gathering on Tverskaya in support of the convicts.

Complaints about the detentions were filed within the framework of the coalition project of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", the "Public Verdict" Foundation, ANO YURIKS and OVD-Info, created after mass detentions in February-March 2014.

Russia must pay 3,000 euros to the head of the human rights project "Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights" Vadim Karastelev and his wife. In 2009, in Krasnodar, he, along with Tamara Karasteleva, picketed against a regional law imposing a curfew for minors. The Karastelevs were holding a poster "Freedom is not given - freedom is taken."

The prosecutor's office considered the picket to be propaganda of offenses among minors, and saw "extremist content" in the slogan. The case in many ways became resonant due to the linguistic examination of the poster authored by the candidate of philosophical sciences Vladimir Rybnik. Analyzing the poster, he referred to the so-called "Dulles plan", Spinoza, Jean-Paul Sartre and concluded that the assertion of the priority of individual rights over the state is extremist in nature.

"Public Verdict" also announces the assignment of 7,500 euros to Igor Borets-Pervak ​​and 5,000 euros to Kateryna Maldon, participants of the picket on January 26, 2015 in support of Ukrainian servicewoman Nadezhda Savcheno, convicted of involvement in the murder of journalists of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company in Donbas.

Russia must pay 12,800 euros to the Left Front coordinator Sergei Udaltsov for detentions on December 4, 2011 when he tried to go to a rally on Bolotnaya Square and on December 10 of the same year, when he was discharged from the hospital, where he ended up as a result of a hunger strike.

All amounts of compensation are indicated without compensation for fines and costs.

The paragraph about the appointment of compensation to Borts-Pervak ​​and Maldon has been corrected. Previously, Maldon's compensation was erroneously indicated.

• On September 8, the ECtHR awarded compensation to 13 detainees at protests on March 2, 2014 in Moscow against the entry of troops into the territory of Ukraine. The interests of 10 applicants out of 13 were also represented by lawyers of the coalition project.