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The European Court of Human Rights twice condemned Russia on Tuesday who made "no effort" to identify the sponsors of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and for "multiple violations" against Pussy Riot
Chance of the calendar, the family of the journalist murdered in 2006 and three members of the feminist punk group condemned in 2012 won the same day a highly symbolic judicial victory before the ECHR, obtaining the condemnation of Moscow.
In a first judgment, the ECHR seized by Anna Politkovskaya's family, condemned Russia for failing to "implement the appropriate investigative measures to identify the sponsor (s) of the murder" of the Russian journalist.
In a communique, the European court stresses that "the (Russian) State has failed to fulfill the obligations relating to the effectiveness and duration of the investigation incumbent on it under section C European Convention on Human Rights of 1950.
By five votes to two, those of the Russian and Slovak judges, the Court sentenced Moscow for violating the "right to life".
"The investigation resulted in tangible results since five men were found directly guilty of murder "but" in a homicide of this type, however, it can not be considered that the investigation was appropriate if no effort was made to identify the "
A well-known investigative journalist, Anna Politkovskaya investigated allegations of human rights violations in Chechnya
She also repeatedly criticized the president's policies. Vladimir Putin
More than ten years after this badbadination that had moved the whole world, the sponsors have still not been identified by the Russian justice.
In June 2017, Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, recognized hit able to have organized the murder of the journalist in October 2006, had died in prison, where he was serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
Of Chechen origin, he was the uncle of Rustam Makhmudov, who was convicted of shooting the journalist, aged 48, at the entrance to her building. He was also sentenced to life imprisonment and serving his sentence.
The court also sentenced a Moscow police officer, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, to 20 years' imprisonment for taking part in the preparation of the murder.
– Victory of the Pussy Riot –
Degrading treatment, violation of freedom of expression: in a second judgment, "Maria Alekhina and others against Russia", the Court also pinned Moscow for "multiple violations" against three members Punk Riot punk band in 2012.
Maria Alekhina, Nadejda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich were convicted of attempting to play anti-Putin songs in Moscow Cathedral in February 2012.
They were sentenced in August 2012 to two years of camp, especially for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred."
Ekaterina Samutsevich had been released in October 2012, while Nadejda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina had served 22 months of their sentence.
Their sentences of imprisonment had led to a wave of solidarity among many artists and musicians around the world.
The Court ruled that young women, transported in a "crowded vehicle" in court had to "endure the humiliation of being permanently exposed to the sight of all in a glazed box". They were also "surrounded by armed police and placed under the care of a dog."
And "for the simple reason that they had worn brightly colored clothes, made arm movements, launched their legs in the air and used foul language, the domestic courts pronounced a sanction of an exceptional severity ", underlines the Court.
The Court condemned Russia to pay up to 16.000 euros of moral damage to each of the Pussy Riot.
The Pussy Riot re-talked about them on Sunday, when four more of their members, dressed in police uniforms, briefly introduced themselves to the field in Moscow during the World Cup finals. football, France-Croatia. On Monday, these four people were sentenced to 15 days in prison
The two judgments of the ECHR are subject to appeal.
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