The European Court of Human Rights issued rulings on 141 complaints filed by OVD-Info and Memorial from protest participants. The applicants were awarded between 3,500 and 6,000 euros in compensation.
Among the applicants there are people brought to administrative responsibility because of the actions of 2019–2022, including for fair elections to the Moscow City Duma, against amendments to the Constitution, for the release of ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal, in support of Alexei Navalny, against the war with Ukraine and others.
The court found that the Russian state violated the demonstrators' rights to freedom of speech and assembly, a fair trial and personal integrity (Articles 5, 6, 10 and 11 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms). In addition, the ECHR decided that Russia violated the right to privacy of several applicants, since they were detained using a facial recognition system (Article 8 of the Convention).
The decisions are contained in the decisions “Borodin and others against Russia” , “Petrov and others against Russia” , “Abrosimova and others against Russia” , “Dankovskaya and others against Russia” , “Gusev and others against Russia” , “ Korolkova and others against Russia” , “Lutsevich and others against Russia” , “Pankratov and others against Russia” , “Perevozchenko and others against Russia” , “Elyshev and others against Russia” . These decisions were published on the ECHR website on March 7 and 14.
- In 2022, OVD-Info published a report on the topic of persecution of participants in peaceful protests using cameras and facial recognition.
- On June 11, 2022, Vladimir Putin signed a law allowing the Russian government not to implement ECHR decisions taken after March 15, 2022, the day Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe. At the same time, the Court continued to consider complaints about violations by the Russian authorities that occurred before September 14, 2022. Lawyers are still turning to the ECHR with them in order to maintain contact with the Council of Europe, to which Russia may someday want to return. It also makes it possible to record violations and inform European countries about the scale of human rights violations in Russia.