On January 24, 2018, Alexei Navalny appeared before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to challenge a series of arrests during protests between 2012 and 2014. He argued that the arrests were not merely unlawful, but politically motivated.
On November 15, 2018, the Grand Chamber ruled in his favor, finding that the Russian authorities had violated Navalny’s rights and had used the arrests to suppress political pluralism. The judgment became one of the most significant international legal rulings concerning Navalny and the treatment of political opposition in Russia.
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