KABLIS v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT
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In the case of Kablis v. Russia,
The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a
Chamber composed of:
Vincent A. De Gaetano, President,
Branko Lubarda,
Helen Keller,
Dmitry Dedov,
Pere Pastor Vilanova,
Alena Poláčková,
Georgios A. Serghides, judges,
and Stephen Phillips, Section Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 2 April 2019,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in two applications (nos. 48310/16 and 59663/17)
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 Grigoriy Nikolayevich Kablis
(“the applicant”), on 28 July 2016 and 30 July 2017 respectively.
2. The applicant was represented by Mr V. Zubkov, a lawyer practising
in Syktyvkar, Mr A. Laptev, a lawyer practising in Moscow, and
Mr E. Mezak, a human-rights defender from Syktyvkar who was granted
leave by the President of the Court to represent the applicant in application
no. 48310/16. The Russian Government (“the Government”) were
represented by Mr M. Galperin, Representative of the Russian Federation to
the European Court of Human Rights.
3. The applicant complained of a breach of his right to freedoms of
expression and assembly and the lack of an effective remedy in that respect.
4. On 27 March and 8 September 2017 the Government were given
notification of the applications.
THE FACTS
I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE
5. The applicant was born in 1976 and lives in Syktyvkar.