Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Russian blogger complained to the ECHR verdict – REGNUM

Chelyabinsk, March 9, 2016, 12:22 – REGNUM Chelyabinsk blogger Konstantin Zharinov convicted in Russia for extremism, has filed a complaint with the European court of human Rights (ECHR), the newspaper “Kommersant».

according to him, the prosecution is politically motivated. For example, he points out in the complaint, that the census in social networks appeal Ukrainian nationalist organization “Right sector” to revolt against the authorities March 1, 2014, while the Supreme Court banned the “Right Sector” in the Russian Federation only 17 November 2014.

The lawyer Irina Khrunova, representing the interests of the blogger to the ECHR noted that the complaint stated on the “wiretapping” phone her client and monitoring its pages in social network Vkontakte.

Constantine Zharinov was sentenced to two years of probation 28 September 2015, but he was immediately pardoned. Despite this, Zharinov considers excessive the fact of prosecution because he removed his the census as soon as received the warning.

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