Published on 10 June 2024
THIRD SECTION
Application no. 10504/18
Dmitriy Vladimirovich ZUBAREV and Others
against Russia
(see table appended)
PROCEDURAL INFORMATION
Following a preliminary examination of the admissibility of the application on 16 May 2024, the Court decided, under Rule 54 § 2 (b) of the Rules of Court, that notice of the application should be given to the Government of Russia.
In the enclosed table, whenever an applicant is referred to using initials, this indicates that the Court has authorised anonymity for that person, whose identity will not be disclosed to the public (Rule 47 § 4).
For further information on the procedure following communication of an application brought against Russia, subject of well-established case law of the Court, please refer to the Court’s website.
SUBJECT MATTER
The application concern complaints raised under Article 11 of the Convention relating to disproportionate measures against organisers and participants of public assemblies which are the subject of well-established case law of the Court (see Frumkin v. Russia, no. 74568/12, ECHR 2016 (extracts), Navalnyy and Yashin v. Russia, no. 76204/11, 4 December 2014 and Kasparov and Others v. Russia, no. 21613/07, 3 October 2013).
APPENDIX – STATEMENT OF FACTS
Application raising complaints under Article 11 of the Convention
(disproportionate measures against organisers and participants of public assemblies)
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Year of birth
Representative’s name and location
Name of the public event
Location
Date
Administrative / criminal offence
Penalty
Final domestic decision
Court Name
Date
Other complaints under well-established case-law
10504/18
14/11/2017
Dmitriy Vladimirovich ZUBAREV
1987
Vladimir Ivanovich ZUBAREV
1956
Galina Ivanovna ZUBAREVA
1956
Natalya Anatolyevna Kasilova
Vladivostok
Rally against corruption
(the first applicant)
Vladivostok
26/03/2017
article 19.3 § 1 of CAO
and
article 20.2 § 5 of CAO
administrative detention of 15 days
and
fine of RUB 10,000
Primorye Regional Court
12/05/2017
(a full copy of the judgment issued on 16/05/2017)
and
Primorye Regional Court
05/07/2017
Art. 5 (1) - unlawful detention - arrest, escorting to a police station, detention of the first applicant:
(i) on 26/03/2017 for the sole purpose of drawing up an offence record (article 20.2 § 5 of the CAO), and
(ii) on 20/02/2018 for the sole purpose of drawing up an offence record in respect of the rally of 28/01/2018 (article 20.2 § 8 of the CAO),
Art. 6 (1) - lack of impartiality of the tribunal in view of the absence of a prosecuting party in administrative-offence proceedings - the first and second sets of proceedings in respect of the first applicant (final judgments of 12/05/2017 and 05/07/2017),
Art. 6 (1) - unfair trial in administrative offence proceedings - inability to adduce evidence on equal footing with the prosecution (refusal to admit a video footage of the first applicant’s arrest in the second set of proceedings, final judgment of 05/07/2017),
Art. 6 (1) - and Art. 6 (3) (d) - unfair trial in view of restrictions on the right to examine witnesses - inability to cross-examine in open court police officers on whose written statements the first applicant’s conviction was based (second set of proceedings, final judgment of 05/07/2017),
Art. 8 (1) - Home - Search of the flat in which the three applicants lived, conducted on 05/05/2017 in connection with criminal investigation in respect of unidentified persons concerning use of violence against a police officer during the rally of 26/03/2017- court search warrant of 04/05/2017 issued by the Frunzenskiy District Court of Vladivostok, upheld on appeal on 08/08/2017 by the Primorye Regional Court; specific defects: no relevant or sufficient reasons to justify the search: applicant not a suspect, no adequate and sufficient safeguards against abuse: broad terms/wide content and scope of the search warrant (objects and documents not specific enough to restrict police’s discretion), no relevant or sufficient reasons to justify the search: no reasonable suspicion as the basis for the search authorisation,
Art. 10 (1) - measures in relation to media coverage of public assemblies - Voters’ Strike, 28/01/2018, Vladivostok – the first applicant was present as a journalist. On 20/02/2018 an administrative-offence record under article 20.2 § 8 of CAO was compiled in respect of him. On 28/02/2018 the police discontinued the proceedings, for the lack of corpus delicti. The applicant claimed compensation for an alleged breach of his right to liberty and freedom of expression on account of the arrest and unlawful administrative-offence proceedings. The courts awarded him RUB 3,000 (EUR 32) of compensation for unlawful arrest on 20/02/2018 and rejected the remainder of the claims. Final judgment of 07/04/2021 by the Supreme Court of Russia.