ECHR receives complaints from Navalny brothers
MOSCOW. Jan 8 (Interfax) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has given priority to a complaint filed by Oleg Navalny against a criminal case over stealing of funds from Yves Rocher, his lawyer Kirill Polozov said.
"The ECHR yesterday communicated my client's complaint and has given it priority," Polozov told Interfax on Thursday.
On December 30, 2014, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court sentenced Oleg Navalny to three and a half years of imprisonment and handed a suspended three-and-a-half-year prison sentence to his brother Alexei on charges of massive fraud and stealing funds from the cosmetics firm.
The ECHR re-communicated his complaint against the house arrest, Alexei Navalny's lawyer Olga Mikhailov told Interfax on Thursday.
"The ECHR accepted our complaint against the extension of the house arrest and re-communicated it along with the previous one, having posed four questions to the Russian government to which the latter must reply before February 13," Mikhailova said.
The complaint is against what the defense considers an illegal detention of A. Navalny under house arrest, she said. The questions posed by the ECHR pertain to three articles of the European Convention on Human Rights which, according to A. Navalny's defense, were violated during the Yves Rocher trial.