Case of European Court of Human Rights, October 23, 2008 (case CASE OF SERGEY KUZNETSOV v. RUSSIA)

Appeal Nbr: 10877/04

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Case of European Court of Human Rights, October 23, 2008 (case CASE OF SERGEY KUZNETSOV v. RUSSIA)

FIRST SECTION

CASE OF SERGEY KUZNETSOV v. RUSSIA

(Application no. 10877/04)

JUDGMENT

STRASBOURG

23 October 2008

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

In the case of Sergey Kuznetsov v. Russia,

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

Nina Vajić, President,

Anatoly Kovler,

Khanlar Hajiyev,

Dean Spielmann,

Sverre Erik Jebens,

Giorgio Malinverni,

George Nicolaou, judges,

and André Wampach, Deputy Section Registrar,

Having deliberated in private on 2 October 2008,

Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:

PROCEDURE

1. The case originated in an application (no. 10877/04) against the Russian Federation lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") by a Russian national, Mr Sergey Vladimirovich Kuznetsov ("the applicant"), on 25 December 2003.

2. The applicant was represented by Mr Yu. Yershov, a lawyer practising in Yekaterinburg. The Russian Government ("the Government") were represented by Mr P. Laptev, a former Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights.

3. On 1 March 2005 the President of the First Section decided to give notice of the application to the Government. It was also decided to examine the merits of the application at the same time as its admissibility (Article 29 § 3 of the Convention).

THE FACTS

I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE

4. The applicant was born in 1957 and lives in Yekaterinburg.

5. On 18 March 2003 the applicant and two other persons (Mr Sh. and Ms M.) sent a notice to the head of Yekaterinburg town administration of their intention to stage a picket in front of...

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