01:14, 21 February 2017

ECtHR accepts Kobaliya’s complaints to consideration

Temur Kobaliya. Photo by Tatyana Filimonova for the "Caucasian Knot"

The complaints of Temur Kobaliya, the former head of the "Youth Consulting and Training Centre", about his administrative harassment in connection with the law on "Foreign Agents", was taken on February 20 to consideration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on October 26, 2015, Mr Kobaliya learnt that the court had fined his Centre by 300,000 roubles, and him personally – by 100,000 roubles. The reason for the fines was Kobaliya’s failure to notice in a post in the social network the status of his Centre as a "foreign agent".

The above Centre was put on the registry of "foreign agents" after the audit conducted in December 2014, after in 2013 Temur Kobaliya took part in the Georgian-Russian Forum "Problems and Prospects of Development of Civil Society Institute and Georgian-Russian Relations". On June 10, 2015, Volgograd held pickets in support of the Centre; and in July it was excluded from the registry.

The ECtHR has accepted two cases – the "Temur Kobaliya vs Russia" and the "Youth Consulting and Training Centre vs Russia", Mr Kobaliya has explained. According to his story, he failed to find justice in the courts of Volgograd.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Tatyana Filimonova

Source: CK correspondent