Russia: ECHR rules compensation to be paid to 107 citizens and organisations designated ‘foreign agents’
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rules that compensation must be paid to 107 citizens and organisations who have foreign agents status in the Russian Federation
23.10.2024
Article published on the ASI website
On 22 October, the ECHR’s website posted a ruling under which Russia must pay compensation to citizens and organisations recognised in the country as foreign agents.
The claimants include 107 citizens and organisations that, among other things, have received fines for violating foreign agents’ legislation. Among these are:
- International Memorial and the Memorial Human Rights Centre (recognised as foreign agents and dissolved by Moscow city’s court);
- The Dozhd television channel (recognised as an undesirable organisation);
- The journalist Yuri Dod and political scientist Ekaterina Schulman (recognised as foreign agents);
- Journalists working for the Projekt media organisation (recognised as an undesirable organisation).
In June 2022, Vladimir Putin signed a law under which ECHR rulings that came into force after 15 March 2022 would not be enforceable in Russia. In February 2023, the Court agreed to start considering complaints filed by foreign agents in the Russian Federation.