Alexei Navalny at the ECHR

On January 24, 2018, Alexei Navalny appeared before the Grand Chamber of the ECHR in Strasbourg over his complaint about repeated detentions at rallies in 2012–2014. He sought a ruling that these detentions were not merely unlawful, but politically motivated. On November 15, 2018, the Grand Chamber of the ECHR held that the Russian authorities had violated Navalny’s rights and used the detentions to suppress political pluralism.