ZAKHAROV AND VARZHABETYAN v. RUSSIA - 35880/14 (Judgment : Prohibition of torture : Third Section)

Art 11 • Art 3 (substantive and procedural) • Freedom of peaceful assembly • Degrading treatment • Police brutality against peaceful participants of the Bolotnaya Square political rally and lack of effective investigation • Use of force neither strictly necessary by applicants� own conduct nor indispensable in the context of quelling mass disorders

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 � 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

��������� Paul Lemmens, President, ��������� Georgios A. Serghides, ��������� Helen Keller, ��������� Dmitry Dedov, ��������� Mar�a El�segui, ��������� Gilberto Felici, ��������� Erik Wennerstr�m, judges, and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,

the applications (nos. 35880/14 and 75926/17) 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 two Russian nationals, Mr Viktor Nikolayevich Zakharov and Ms Turana Apkarovna Varzhabetyan (�the applicants�), on 1 May 2014 and 26 September 2017 respectively;