The ECHR awarded four thousand euros to those detained at rallies of Navalny supporters in 2017

The European Court of Human Rights awarded 3,900 euros in compensation to six people detained at anti-corruption rallies of supporters of Alexei Navalny in 2017. This was reported by the human rights organization Apology with reference to the court decision .

Muscovite Yevgeny Mironov was detained at a rally on March 26, 2017, dedicated to the release of Navalny’s investigation “He’s not Dimon for you” about ex-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Mironov was kept in the police department for several hours, and then fined 15 thousand rubles. According to estimates , 1,043 people were detained in Moscow at that time.

Five more applicants, whose detention the ECHR recognized as a violation of the right to freedom (Article 5 of the European Convention), were in Moscow and St. Petersburg at a rally on June 12, 2017. After his arrest, Mikhail Smirnov was sentenced to mandatory labor, arrest, and fines. to the police department across the country . were taken In total , more than 1,700 people

The ECHR also awarded 3 thousand euros to Yabloko member Nikolai Kavkazsky for a flash mob on May 17, 2015, on the international day against homophobia. Then the police detained 17 people in a Moscow park who were planning to release multi-colored balloons into the sky. They were released without protocols after a preventative conversation.