The ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) has communicated the first seven complaints concerning detentions at "that very rally." The case combines seven applicants: Frumkin, Navalny, Gunko, Aristov, Shchekin (all surnames are in Latin script, so I may be mistaken; in the original it is "Shchekin"), Gromov, Sibiryak, and Zinovyeva.
The document first describes the overall situation, and then the events concerning each participant, roughly like this:
The full document is here; it was obtained by Konstantin Terekhov from "RosEuroSud".
The appendix shows that Terekhov's complaints have been joined with complaints submitted by other representatives.
Russia must now respond to the questions set out in the communication letter by January 15, 2015. Yes, all of this is, of course, taking terribly long, especially considering that today the first of the "Bolotnaya prisoners" (people prosecuted over the Bolotnaya Square protest case), Yaroslav Belousov, is being released after serving an unlawful prison sentence.
Nevertheless, the fact that the ECHR has finally gotten to these complaints and begun finding them admissible gives hope that those events will become the subject of review by a court, rather than a "court."
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