The euros owed to you as compensation for unlawful arrests at peaceful protests are on their way. Slowly, but they are on their way.
The day before yesterday, something important happened: the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) communicated the first case concerning a detention at the March 26 protest.
Formally, this is the second communication—the first one concerned my own arrest. But what really matters here is that this is the first communicated complaint from an ordinary person, not some celebrity. Elvira’s complaint was filed together with those of other protest participants, so things should work out well for them too.
Many thanks to Agora, which assigned the excellent lawyer Irina Khrunova to this case.
You may be surprised, but as many as 247 people detained at the March 26 protest still have not received a ruling from the appellate court (and only after that can they apply to the ECHR). In some cases, no hearing has even been scheduled yet; others have been sent back to the lower court; some still have not received a summons from the court of first instance, and so on. That is what Russia’s judicial system is like now. Still, the lawyers from the campaign headquarters and ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation) are handling all these cases carefully, just as we promised.
I am confident that for everyone who has applied to the ECHR with complaints about clear violations of their rights, justice will be restored and they will obtain lawful decisions from a fair court. That is the most important thing.
But compensation matters too. I would also point out that the Russian Federation recently paid compensation to Igor Tarasov, whose case we won together with RosEuroSud.
This is the one-person protest for which he was detained and fined:
Out of that amount, Igor donated 100,000 rubles to ACF:
What a great example to follow!
The Yandex.Money wallet for collecting donations to pay fines remains the same: 410011790053534.