The ECHR communicated complaints from Russians fined under the article on disrespect for authorities on the Internet

The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaints of 17 Russians prosecuted under article o. this in his Telegram channel . announced Pavel Chikov, the head of the human rights group Agora, which represents the applicants,

Among the applicants, as Chikov notes, were Nizhny Novgorod journalist Irina Slavina, who committed suicide, who was fined for an obscene pun with the name of the city of Shakhunya, and political scientist Fyodor Krasheninnikov, who was the first in the country to be arrested for repeated violation of this article.

They complained of a violation of the right to freedom of expression (Article 10 of the European Convention), and some also of a violation of the right to a fair trial and personal integrity (Articles 5, 6 of the Convention).

The law on disrespect for authority on the Internet, developed by Senator Andrei Klishas, ​​came into force in March 2019. According to Agora’s calculations , in the first year, one hundred protocols were drawn up under this article, including every second one for statements about President Vladimir Putin. It was also used to attract a resident of Bryansk, who danced on the “Mound of Immortality,” and a Magadan resident, who imitated urinating on a police car.