The ECHR awarded the Karelian activist compensation after accusations of extremism

The European Court of Human Rights awarded 10 thousand euros to the head of the Karelian youth human rights group Maxim Efimov for the fact that the Russian authorities violated his right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and associations. This was reported by "network freedoms".

In 2011, Maxim Efimov was accused of arousing religious hostility and humiliation of the dignity of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and Orthodox believers. This happened after the newspaper Efimov published in the newspaper, the Karelia was tired of priests. In it, he sharply spoke about the close cooperation of the Karelian diocese with the republican authorities. Under the threat of premises in a psychiatric hospital, Efimov left for Estonia, where he received political asylum.

In 2014, the Karelian youth human rights group was liquidated because its founder was Efimov, who was accused of extremism.

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The European Court in the decision noted that the publication of the newspaper "Hour Nolo" did not concern individual believers, did not call for discrimination and did not incite violence or intimidation. The court did not see evidence that the statements in the note were false or slanderous.

The court indicated that the Russian anti -extremist law does not correspond to the “quality of the law”, as it involves the liquidation of NPOs only on the basis that the investigator accused the founder of extremism.

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