The ECHR awarded 49 thousand euros in compensation to seven people detained at protests from 2010 to 2014

The ECtHR awarded 49,000 euros in compensation following complaints from human rights defenders and activists detained for participation in protests from 2010 to 2014. This was reported on the website of the court.

The court ordered Russia to pay from five to ten thousand euros to human rights activists Lev Ponomarev and Yana Teplitskaya, activists Mikhail Schneider, Philip Kostenko, Mikhail Krieger, Dmitry Vinogradov and Alexander Shcherbakov. From 2010 to 2014 they were detained for participating in protest actions, Russian courts fined them from 500 to 1,000 rubles or imposed up to 15 days of administrative arrest.

The ECHR recognized that Russia violated the right to freedom of assembly and a fair trial, guaranteed by the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

• In October 2020, the ECtHR awarded 140,000 euros on complaints of violation of the right to freedom of assembly and freedom of speech; more than 30 thousand euros - to two beaten for shares on May 6, 2012; 25,808 euros – to those detained at a rally against the ban on “LGBT propaganda”; 5,000 euros each for those detained at rallies in 2011 and 2014.