Posted on 07/19/2018 4:36:30 AM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, July 17, Interfax - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the way Russian authorities handled the trial of the members of the punk group Pussy Riot who performed a 'punk prayer' protest at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in 2012 violated the applicants' right to a fair trial.
"The ECHR ordered [Russia] to pay 16,000 euros each to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina and 5,000 euros to Yekaterina Samutsevich. The court also ordered Russia to pay 11,750 euros in respect of costs and expenses," the Pussy Riot members' lawyer Irina Khrunova told Interfax on Tuesday.
In its resolution, which was published on the ECHR website, the Strasbourg-based court unanimously recognized that the applicants' criminal prosecution and also designating the group's video materials as extremist and banning them violated Article 10 (which provides the right to freedom of expression and information) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Furthermore, the judges also unanimously recognized that the convention's Article 6, which protects the right to a fair trial, had been violated as well.
Checks in the mail.
Jurisdiction, don’t waste time on happenings outside of yours.
Russia is a signatory, as a member of the Council of Europe (as of 1996).
Not that that matters.
What about the rights of the churchgoers not to have their worship interrupted?
Good point.
Clever Belarus, who seems to be the hold-out...(^:
Hopefully the Russian authorities have more b*lls than the ECHR, or Pussy Riot for that matter, and tell them all where to stick their judgement.
Oh good grief! I’d send them a check dated for the day after the Second Coming.
Russia also has a law specifically against desecrating or disrupting a religious ceremony.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.