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The ECHR awarded compensation to those detained at rallies in 2011 and 2014
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg published judgments on cases of detainees in Moscow and St. Petersburg at rallies in 2011 and 2014 . about this . writes The Human Rights Center “Memorial”
On December 5, 2011, a rally was held in Moscow against violations in the elections to the State Duma, and on February 24, 2014, actions were held in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the verdicts in the Bolotnaya case. The ECtHR considered the complaints of 30 people who were detained at these events. Complaints in connection with the events of 2014 were prepared by lawyers within the framework of a specially created coalition project of the Memorial Human Rights Center, the Public Verdict Foundation, ANO YURIKS and OVD-Info.
The ECHR found that the Russian authorities violated the detainees' right to liberty and security of person (Article 5 of the European Convention ), the right to a fair trial (Article 6) and the right to freedom of assembly (Article 11). The ECtHR ruled to pay all applicants five thousand euros as compensation for non-pecuniary damage, as well as reimburse the costs of paying fines and legal costs.
Mikhail Mayzuls, Boris Nikolsky, Vitaly Novoselov, Artem Khukhorev, Evgeny Yakshin, Ivan Babitsky, Ilya Shchurov, Andrey Skorokhod, Petr Maslov, Georgy Mzhavanadze, Daniil Grachev and Pavel Protasov appealed against the 2014 detentions and subsequent decisions of the Russian courts.
Ilya Vorontsov, Alexey Kotlyarsky, Tamara Krutenko, Lyubov Krutenko, Ilyas Setdinov, Daria Rosenshein, Alexander Kondrashev, Grigory Yudin, Vitaly Apakidze, Emil Terekhin, Fedor Bogatyrev, Sergey Vlasov, Georgy Dzhalagoniya, Andrey Orel, Igor Tarasov, Dmitry Doronin, Alexander Poganov and Sergei Ilupin appealed against the actions of the Russian authorities against the participants of the 5 December 2011 rally.
“I am glad that the ECtHR recognized the violation of the right to freedom of assembly and a fair trial, and I am sincerely grateful to Tatyana Glushkova and her colleagues who represented my interests. At the same time, I am very sorry that the listed rights are now suppressed in Russia even more severely than nine years ago, and the right to fair elections, which we stood for in December 2011, is being realized on stumps and in trunks, ”Memorial cites lyrics by Sergei Ilupin .
- On February 24, 2014, 430 people were detained near Manezhnaya Square, according to OVD-Info . On the same day, 234 people were detained near the Zamoskvoretsky Court . In November 2016, the ECtHR communicated the complaints of the detainees.
- On May 6, 2012, on the eve of the inauguration of Vladimir Putin for the third presidential term, an agreed-upon protest march took place in Moscow, which was supposed to end with a rally on Bolotnaya Square. However, most of those who came to the event did not make it to the venue of the rally: next to the Udarnik cinema, at the entrance to Bolotnaya Square, a mass brawl broke out between the marchers and the police. Gradually, a significant part of the demonstrators became involved in the confrontation. were opened against several dozen participants in the action Later, criminal cases .
- On December 5, 2011, a rally was held in Moscow against fraud in the elections to the State Duma. The protesters were roughly dispersed by riot police and police officers. Several hundred detainees ended up in the police department, and many were subsequently fined and arrested. During these events, the OVD-Info project arose .