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RFE/RL: EU court says Russia violated rights of Bolotnaya protesters

Published Jan. 30, 2018 at 7:56 pm

Opposition activist Alexey Gaskarov, one of the anti-Putin protesters accused of instigating mass riots at Bolotnaya square, stands inside the defendant cage in Zamoskvoretsky district court in Moscow, on April 24, 2014, during his trial. A Russian court started today the trial of the four anti-Putin protesters found guilty of mass riots on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration as president in 2012. AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV / AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Russia violated the rights of three men who were jailed in connection with a protest on the eve of President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to his current term.

In a decision issued on January 30, the ECHR found that Russian authorities violated the rights of Andrei Barabanov, Aleksei Polikhovich, and Stepan Zimin during their detainment and prosecution over the protest on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.