CASE OF MARIYA ALEKHINA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (No. 2) – The application concerns the refusal of the Russian authorities to register the applicants’ human rights organisation “The Zone of Law”

The applicants – two members of a punk band, Pussy Riot, and a retired official from the Russian Federal Prison Service – attempted to establish a public association, “The Zone of Law”, with the object of providing legal assistance to…

CASE OF GRISHIN AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA – The applicants complained about their confinement in a metal cage in the courtroom during the criminal proceedings against them or during the administrative proceedings to which they were a party

The European Court of Human Rights notes that the applicants were kept in a metal cage in the courtroom in the context of their trial and/or administrative proceedings to which they were a party. The Court already dealt with the…