
European Court of Human Rights, Mariya Alekhina and others v. Russia
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- Dirk Voorhoof (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- After the international disapproval of the Russian authorities’ interferences with the punk band Pussy Riot, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found various violations of the rights of the band’s members under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The ECtHR found violations under Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), Article 5 § 3 (right to liberty and security) and 6 §§ 1 and 3 (c) ECHR (right to fair trial), in relation to the conditions of their transportation and detention in the courthouse, their pre-trial detention, the treatment during the court hearings and restrictions to legal assistance. Most importantly the ECtHR found the criminal prosecution and prison sentence of the Pussy Riot members a breach of their freedom of expression under Article 10 ECHR. It also found that their right to freedom of expression has been violated on account of declaring the Pussy Riot video material available on the Internet as extremist and banning it.
- Keywords
- Freedom of Expression, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, case law, hate speech, freedom or expression and religion, extremism
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8579356
- MLA
- Voorhoof, Dirk. “European Court of Human Rights, Mariya Alekhina and Others v. Russia.” IRIS (ENGLISH ED. ONLINE), no. 8, European Audiovisual Observatory, 2018, p. 2.
- APA
- Voorhoof, D. (2018). European Court of Human Rights, Mariya Alekhina and others v. Russia. IRIS (ENGLISH ED. ONLINE), (8), 2.
- Chicago author-date
- Voorhoof, Dirk. 2018. “European Court of Human Rights, Mariya Alekhina and Others v. Russia.” IRIS (ENGLISH ED. ONLINE), no. 8: 2.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Voorhoof, Dirk. 2018. “European Court of Human Rights, Mariya Alekhina and Others v. Russia.” IRIS (ENGLISH ED. ONLINE) (8): 2.
- Vancouver
- 1.Voorhoof D. European Court of Human Rights, Mariya Alekhina and others v. Russia. IRIS (ENGLISH ED ONLINE). 2018;(8):2.
- IEEE
- [1]D. Voorhoof, “European Court of Human Rights, Mariya Alekhina and others v. Russia,” IRIS (ENGLISH ED. ONLINE), no. 8, p. 2, 2018.
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