Russia
Human rights and the rule of law are being increasingly undermined in Russia, where the authorities routinely subvert the country’s legal and administrative apparatus to silence dissent. Restrictive legislation, such as the so-called “Foreign Agents” laws, punish and vilify human rights defenders, civil society activists, and independent journalists, whilst law enforcement bodies and the security services act with impunity. Women and sexual minorities are not sufficiently protected against discrimination and violence, and restrictions on protest prevent ordinary Russians from exercising their right to freedom of assembly.
EHRAC was founded in 2003 and began by litigating cases at the European Court of Human Rights arising from the conflict in the Russian Republic of Chechnya, in partnership with Memorial Human Rights Centre. Our remit in Russia has steadily expanded over the years to include litigation on issues relating to civil society repression, restrictions on protest, LGBTIQ+ rights, violence against women and girls, security force violations as well as conflict and occupation.
Key EHRAC Cases
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 16664/07 Judgment date: 15 October 2015 The applicant, Ms. Taisa Abakarova, lived with her…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 16664/07 Judgment date: 15 October 2015 The applicant, Ms. Taisa Abakarova, lived with her…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 37542/05 Judgment date: 8 April 2010 In all these cases the applicants’…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 27180/03 Judgment date: 8 January 2009 Facts The applicants are the wife…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 41437/10 Judgment date: 22 September 2015 The applicants are the mother and…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 27065/05 Judgment date: 2 December 2010 The 29 applicants were residents of Katyr-Yurt,…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 32297/05 Judgment date: 23 April 2009 The applicant in this case is…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 69842/10 Judgment Date: 15 January 2015 On 10 July 2009, Batyr Albakov…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 68216/01 Judgment date: 9 October 2008 The three applicants are Russian nationals and…
Repression of civil society Violence against women and girls
Russia
Case No. 38004/12 The applicants were initially represented by Mr M. Feygin, Mr N.…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case No. 46468/06 Judgment date: 22/12/08 The applicant was a lawyer representing Mikhail Khodorkovsky,…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Russia
Case No. 4916/07; 25924/08 and 14500/09 Judgment date: 21 October 2010 Mr. Nikolai Alekseev is…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 68007/01 Judgment date: 5 July 2007 Facts This case concerns the “disappearance”…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 18114/06 Judgment Date: 3 July 2014 The applicant is of Chechen origin…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 4560/08 Judgment Date: 9 October 2014 The case was part of a group…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 17321/06 Judgment date: 25 November 2010 The applicants lived in the village…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 37966/07 Judgment Date: 3 July 2014 In March 2006, two of the…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 54765/09 Judgment date: 18 April 2013 The applicant, Tamara Askhabova, had five sons,…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 47215/07 Judgment date: 14 March 2013 The applicants are the mother and…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 7654/02 Judgment date: 12 February 2009 Facts Due to the hostilities in…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 8516/08 Date of judgment: 17 January 2017 In January 2007 Sultan Barakhoyev,…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Russia
Case No. 67667/09, 44092/12 & 56717/12 Judgment date: 20 June 2017 The three applicants…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 69481/01 Judgment date: 27 July 2006 The applicants were represented by the Stichting…
Politically motivated cases
Georgia Russia
Case Nos. 14594/07 et al., & 16363/07 Judgment date: 20 December 2016 In Berdzenishvili,…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case No. 34202/06 Judgment date: 10 July 2012 The applicants were ten Russian nationals who…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No.27233/03 Judgment date: 4 December 2008 Facts The applicant claimed that on 13…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 37315/03 Judgment date: 29 May 2008 Facts The applicants, husband and wife,…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Repression of civil society
North Caucasus Russia
Case Nos. 57953/00 & 37392/03 Judgment date: 21 June 2007 Facts The first applicant,…
Environment
Russia
Case No. 33509/04 Judgment date: 15/01/09 The applicant was called up to take part…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 27926/06 Judgment date: 31 October 2013 This case originated in four applications…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 59334/00 Judgment Date: 18/01/2007 According to the applicants (two brothers), on 15…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 35152/09 Judgment date: 16 February 2016 The applicant, Magomed Dalakov, lives in…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 36150/04 Judgment date: 29 May 2012 Facts The applicant alleged that on…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 18407/10 Judgment date: 19 December 2013 The four applicants were relatives of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 30613/05 and 30615/05 Judgment date: 11 February 2010 Facts The applicants’ sons…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 8620/09 and 47770/09 Judgment Date: 27 February 2014 The ECtHR joined nine…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case No. 30160/04 Judgment date: 27/9/07 In July 2003 the applicant, a resident of…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Georgia Russia South Ossetia
Forum: ECtHR Case Nos. 24964/09 et al. Admissibility decision date: 29 January 2019 Facts In all three…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Cases No. 34541/06, 43811/06 and 1578/07 Judgment date: 10 October 2013 These were three…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 23445/03 Judgment date: 29 March 2011 Facts The applicants are 27 Russian…
Environment
Russia
Case No. 55723/00 Judgment date: 9 June 2005 Facts Since 1982, the applicant and…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Russia
Case No. 18299/03 and 27311/03 Judgment date: 20 December 2011 The applicants in the…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case No. 74568/12 Judgment date: 5 January 2016 Mr Frumkin, the applicant, was arrested by the police…
Environment
Russia
Case No. 7946/08 Judgment date: 29 October 2015 The applicant, Ms. Gayeva, was the widow…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 62235/09 Judgment date: 12 May 2016 The case concerns the disappearance of Zarema…
Conflict and occupation abuses Politically motivated cases
Georgia Russia
Case No. 13255/07 Judgment date: 03/07/09 On 26 March 2007, the Georgian authorities lodged…
Conflict and occupation abuses Politically motivated cases
Georgia Russia
Case No. 13255/07 Judgment Date: 3 July 2014 In 2007 Georgia filed a case in…
Conflict and occupation abuses Politically motivated cases
Georgia Russia
Forum: ECtHR (GC) Case No.: 13255/07 Judgment date: 31 January 2019 Facts This case concerns the expulsion…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 14811/04 Judgment date: 20 January 2011 The applicant complained that he was kidnapped…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 58643/00 Judgment date: 4 October 2007 Facts On 19 January 2000 Ms…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Forum: ECtHR Case Nos: 27057/06 and 2 others Judgment date: 2 July 2019 Facts The case originated…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 67413/01 Judgment date: 1 April 2010 Following an external audit of the…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 67542/01 Judgment date: 15 May 2008 On 2 February 2000, the applicant…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case No. 70276/01 Judgment Date: 19/05/2004 The applicant was the former Chairman of the…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 26966/06 Judgment date: 10 June 2010 Facts The applicant argued that her…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 7615/02 Decision Date: 20/1/2005 According to the applicant, on 17th December 2000,…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 20756/04 Judgment date: 22 October 2009 The applicant was arrested on 6 March…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 57950/00 Judgment date: 24 February 2005 Facts The application concerned the indiscriminate…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case Nos. 57947/00, 57948/00, 57949/00 Judgment date: 24 February 2005 Facts The three applicants…
Advocacy and implementation
Russia
Case No. 34631/02 Judgment date: 9 October 2008 Facts The applicant, Dokka Itslayev, was…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 55508/07 and 29520/09 Judgment date: 21 October 2013 The case originated from…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 36367/09 Judgment date: 23 April 2015 The applicant, Ziyavdi Kagirov, lives in…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 7653/02 Judgment date: 29 April 2008 Facts The case concerned Ms Kaplanova’s…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 24427/02 Judgment date: 11 February 2010 Facts This case concerns the excessive…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 39166/04 Judgment date: 5 March 2009 Facts On 11 September, 2000 the…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 33488/04 Judgment date: 3 March 2011 Facts The applicant’s son was arrested…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case Nos. 57942/00 and 57945/00 Judgment date: 24 February 2005 Facts The applicants complained…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 12463/05 Judgment date: 22 April 2010 Facts The applicant’s husband was detained…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Forum: ECtHR Case No: 51111/07 and 42757/07 Judgment Date: 14 January 2020 Facts The…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case No 5829/04 Judgment date: 31/05/11 The applicant, formerly the richest person in Russia,…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 16622/05 Judgment date: 27 May 2010 Facts The applicants are ten Russian…
Right to fair trial
Russia
Case No. 25551/05 Judgment date: 01/07/10 In July 2002, the applicant was awarded 22.50…
Right to protection of property
Russia
Case No. 54522/00 Judgment date: 3 April 2012 In August 1994, a commercial bank was…
Advocacy and implementation
Russia
Case No. 29492/05 Judgment date: 26/02/09 The applicant held judicial office at the Moscow…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 29361/02 Judgment date: 15 November 2007 Facts The applicant’s son was a policeman…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case No. 57818/09 et al. Judgment date: 7 February 2017 The 23 applicants in…
Environment
Russia
Case Nos. 53157/99, 53247/99, 56850/00 and 53695/00 Judgment date: 26 September 2006 Facts The…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Russia Ukraine
Case No. 5355/15 Judgment date: 5 July 2016 This case was brought by applicants who…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 72250/01 Judgment date: 13 July 2010 Lopata alleged he was beaten by…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case Nos. 12713/02 and 28440/03 Judgment date: 2 October 2008 Facts The applicants are…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 7964/07 Judgment date: 24 May 2011 Facts The applicants’ son was abducted…
Advocacy and implementation
Russia
Forum: ECtHR Case No.: 32631/09 and 53799/12 Judgment date: 27 August 2019 Facts The…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 68004/01 Judgment date: 12 July 2007 Facts The case concerns the detention…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 2393/05 Judgment date: 18 June 2009 In Magomadova the applicant’s son was taken…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 37287/09 Judgment Date: 18 September 2014 The case concerned the disappearance of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 58701/00 Judgment date: 4 October 2007 Facts The applicant was the victim…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No 37193/08 Judgment date: 24 May 2011 Facts The applicant’s husband, Ruslanbek Alikhadzhiyev (brother…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case Nos. 14705/09, 67305/10. 68860/10, 70695/10 Judgment Date: 15 January 2015 The applicants are…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case No. 38004/12 Date of Judgment: 17 July 2018 The applicants – Mariya Alekhina,…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 49076/06 Judgment date: 19 April 2011 Facts The first applicant is the…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 25385/04 Judgment date: 15 January 2009 In June 2004, the applicant’s husband was apprehended…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 67326/01 Judgment date: 25 September 2008 Facts On 5 October 1999, the…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case number: 7653/06 Judgment date: 12 December 2017 The applicant was arrested in January…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case Nos. 57941/00, 58699/00 and 60403/00 Judgment date: 26 July 2007 Facts The case…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 12703/02 Judgment date: 3 July 2008 Facts The applicant is the mother of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 24297/05 Judgment date: 23 July 2009 Facts The applicant’s son was apprehended…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 2952/06 Judgment date: 1 April 2010 Facts The applicants are five Russian nationals…
Politically motivated cases Repression of civil society
Russia
On Friday 6 March 2020, the prominent Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, his Anti-Corruption…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case No. 76204/11 Judgment Date: 4 December 2014 On 5 December 2011 the applicants,…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case No. 29580/12 et al. Judgment date: 2 February 2017 On seven occasions between…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Forum: ECtHR Case No.: 43734/14 Judgment date: 9 April 2019 Facts The applicant, Aleksey Navalnyy, is an…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case No. 101/15 Judgment date: 17 October 2017 Political activist Alexei Navalny, and his…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case No. 45083/06 Judgment Date: 3 October 2017 In August 2000, a nuclear submarine…
Repression of civil society
Russia
Case Nos. 25501/07, 57569/11, 80153/12, 5790/13 и 35015/13 Judgment date: 26 April 2016 The applicants…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 66460/01 Judgment date: 2 June 2005 Facts On 5 November 1998 the…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case No. 14902/04 Judgment date: 20 September 2011 The applicant was represented by Mr…
Repression of civil society
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 5632/10 Judgment date: 14 March 2017 Oleg Orlov, the chairman of Memorial…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 39583/05 Judgment Date: 24 April 2014 The applicants were the parents of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 53036/08 et al Judgment date: 9 January 2014 Facts These 20 cases relate to complaints…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Russia Ukraine
Unlawful detention and ill-treatment of Ukrainian volunteer combatants.
Prohibition of slavery and forced labour
Other Russia
Case No. 25965/04 Judgment date: 07/01/10 The applicant’s daughter, Ms. Rantseva, a 20-year-old Russian…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Forum: European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) Case No.: 75734/12 and 2 others Judgment…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
On 26 April 2009 Rashid Razzakov, a migrant worker in Voronezh, arrived at a meeting place…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 12712/02 Judgment date: 3 July 2008 Facts In the early hours of…
Repression of civil society
Russia
On 22 March 2017, the European Court of Human Rights decided to refer a…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 8320/04 Judgment date: 19 June 2008 The applicant is a citizen of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 38570/05 Judgment date: 8 April 2010 Facts The applicant’s son disappeared on…
Discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people
Russia
Unlawful dispersal of LGBTIQ+ protest against Russia’s “gay propaganda” law.
Violence against women and girls
Russia
On 10 November 2016, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaints brought…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 32805/03 Judgment date: 18 June 2009 On 21 July 1997, the applicant…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 32501/11 Judgment date: 22 January 2013 The applicant was the father of…
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 26562/07 Decision date: 2 July 2015 On 1 September 2004, the first day…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Justice for Beslan survivors.
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 57935/00 Judgment date: 29 November 2007 Facts The applicant and her family…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Russia
Case Nos. 55762/00 and 55974/00 Judgment date: 13/12/2005 The applicant was an ethnic Chechen…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 39358/05 Judgment date: 15 March 2011 Facts The applicant’s brother had been…
Conflict and occupation abuses
Russia Ukraine
Case No. 73590/14 et al. Judgment Date: 13 February 2018 The applicants currently reside…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Application No. 63638/09 Judgment Date: 20 June 2013 In October 2009 the applicant’s son…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Cases No. 25654/08 and 49379/09 Judgments dates: 3 May 2012 and 31 July 2012 …
Conflict and occupation abuses
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 1200/03 Judgment date: 4 December 2008 Facts On 23 January 2000, the…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 34085/06 Judgment date: 5 July 2011 The applicants were Mr Bekhan Velkhiyev and…
Violence against women and girls
Russia
Forum: ECtHR Case No.: 41261/17 Judgment date: 9 July 2019 Facts The applicant suffered multiple incidents of…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 24051/11 Judgment date: 25 July 2017 Vyacheslav Yankovskiy was detained in April…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
Russia
Case No. 52327/08 Judgment date: 10 July 2012 The applicant alleged that on the evening…
Politically motivated cases
Russia
Case No. 181248/09 Judgment date: 8 July 2010 In Yuldashev the applicant fled to…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 39436/06 Judgment date: 30 January 2014 In December 2004 Mr Yanayev, a…
Abuses by security forces and law enforcement
North Caucasus Russia
Case No. 40166/07 Judgment Date: 26 March 2015 The case concerned the unlawful abduction…
