The ECHR ordered Russia to pay compensation to the journalist

The court awarded the Russian compensation of €13.6 K

The European court of human rights (ECHR) has awarded a €13.6 K Stanislav Dmitrievsky, who was sentenced for inciting hatred or enmity (article 282 of the criminal code).

This is stated in the court’s decision, published on the website of the ECHR.

Demetrius complained to the ECHR for Russia’s violation of article 10 of the Convention for the protection of human rights (Freedom of expression) and article 6 (Right to a fair trial) and article 13 (Right to an effective remedy). He believes that the articles for which he was convicted, he tried to provide objective and unbiased information about the conflict in Chechnya and to convey the views of both parties.

The court found Russia’s violation of freedom of expression in the case of Demetrius. He considered that the intervention of the Russian authorities “was not necessary”.

The head of the international human rights group “Agora” Pavel Chikov, in conversation with RBC said that this is the first decision of the ECHR in a criminal case on extremism in Russia, which has a precedent meaning.

“The ECtHR analyzed the situation, the identity of the authors of the appeal and the applicant has reviewed the text and said directly that there were no calls to violent action and that was the excessive response by the authorities, is clearly disproportionate to the situation,” he said.

Demetrius led the organization “Society of Russian-Chechen friendship” and was chief editor of the newspaper “Pravo-Zaschita”. In 2004 he published the appeal of leaders of the Chechen separatists Akhmed Zakayev and Aslan Maskhadov. Zakayev urged not to vote in the election of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Maskhadov to recognize at the international level the conflict in Chechnya “genocide of the Chechen people by the Russian authorities.”

The Prosecutor’s office of Nizhny Novgorod found in these articles calls for the violent overthrow of the regime. In 2006, Dmitrievsky was found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred and sentenced to two years of imprisonment conditionally.

© 2017 – 2019, paradox. All rights reserved.