DISINFO: No political motivation in Yves Rocher fraud case against Alexei Navalny according to the ECHR
SUMMARY
According to the European Court of Human Rights there were no political motivations in the 2014 Yves Rocher fraud case against Alexei Navalny.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative stating that the Kremlin's political opponents are criminals and should be arrested in Russia or abroad. The article is part of an ongoing disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. One of the messages spread by this campaign is that the 2014 Yves Rocher fraud case against Navalny was fully legitimate and did not pursue any pro-Kremlin political objectives.
The ECHR Chamber Judgement of April 4, 2019 concerned Navalny’s house arrest and restrictive measures related to the Yves Rocher case. In this judgement, the ECHR “corroborated Navalny’s allegations” that the house-arrest and restrictions on him in the Yves Rocher case had been aimed at limiting his public activities, and that they had pursued the same aim of the suppression of political pluralism.
The ECHR also found that the house-arrest order, which had lasted 10 months, was not in proportion to the alleged crimes, and that the restrictions on Navalny during his house arrest had become more and more incongruous over time and parts of the communications ban had even been found to be unlawful in court.
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