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YVES ROCHER CASE: WHAT WERE NAVALNY BROTHERS CONVICTED OF?

... verdict. The appeal against the sentence did not lead to its cancellation, although it removed the obligation to pay the fine. In August 2017, the Federal Penitentiary Service managed to achieve an extension of the probationary period assigned to Alexey Navalny for another year (it expired on December 30, 2020). The lawyers' appeal to the ECHR led to a decision that the verdict was found unfounded, and the Russian authorities were obliged to pay compensation to the brothers in the amount of € 76,000. In the summer of 2018, the Russian government transferred 4 million rubles of compensation ...

LAWYERS OF ALEXEI NAVALNY WIIL APPEAL AGAINST THE COURT RULING

... arguments were found untenable. We should recall that the verdict in the case of Yves Rocher against Navalny in 2017 was recognized by the European Court of Human Rights as “arbitrary and unreasonable”, with a violation of the right for a fair trial. The ECHR refused to consider the issue of the political motivation of the case, but the Navalny brothers received compensation in the amount of 76 thousand euros. In 2018, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to cancel the sentence, the case was reopened. In 2019, the European Court of Human Rights recognized ...

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