CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 15 janvier 2016

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The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows. In 2014-15 the applicants lodged notices of the public assemblies indicated in the Appendix. On all occasions the authorities refused to approve the dates and locations proposed by the applicants, and the domestic courts upheld these administrative decisions. The judicial decisions in every case were taken after the respective dates of the originally proposed assemblies. The grounds for the refusal related to the assemblies’ purposes. The final domestic decisions are indicated in the Appendix. COMPLAINTS The applicants complain under Article 11 of the Convention of a violation of their right to peaceful assembly. They claim that the ban on holding LGBT public assemblies is not in accordance with the law, does not pursue any legitimate aim and is not necessary in a democratic society. The applicants complain under Article 13 in conjunction with Article   11   of the Convention that they did not have an effective remedy against the alleged violations of their freedom of assembly. They allege that the time ‑ limits for lodging a notice of the proposed events did not allow them to obtain a final judicial decision on the lawfulness of the ban before the assembly in question was due to take place. Lastly, the applicants complain of the discriminatory manner in which the authorities treated their applications for holding LGBT public events, contrary to Article 14 in conjunction with Article   11 of the Convention.     QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES 1.     As regards each assembly listed in the Appendix, has there been an interference with the applicants’ freedom of peaceful assembly, within the meaning of Article 11 § 1 of the Convention?   2.     Assuming there was such an interference, did it comply in each case with the requirements set forth in Article 11 § 2 of the Convention?   3.     Did the statutory periods for notification of the public event and those for the judicial review of the decisions banning the organisation of the event allow for a final judicial decision to be given before the intended date of the event? If not, has there been a violation of Article 13 in conjunction with Article 11 of the Convention in the present case?   4.     Have the applicants suffered discrimination in the enjoyment of freedom of assembly contrary to Article 14 of the Convention read in conjunction with Article 11?   Appendix   No. Applicants Date of application form   Public Event Final Domestic Decision Proposed Theme Date Court Date 1. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, MIKHAYLOVA 21/01/2015 Rally to call for the exclusion of transgenderism from the list of mental illnesses. 15/11/2013 Moscow City Court 14/08/2014 2. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, MIKHAYLOVA 22/01/2015 Rally to call for the acquittal of the gay activists Nikolay Alekseyev and Yaroslav Yevtushenko convicted by a court in the city of Arkhangelsk for propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations on the basis of the Russian federal law banning propaganda of gay lifestyle to minors. 18/12/2013 Moscow City Court 14/08/2014 3. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, MIKHAYLOVA 26/01/2015 Rally to express the views of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community in support of the heart of the Russian TV channel Rossiya-1 journalist Dmitriy Kiselev and against the burning and burying of his heart in the soil. 30/11/2013 Moscow City Court 14/08/2014 4. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 27/01/2015 Rally to express the position of gays and lesbians against global warming at the time of the Olympic Games in Sochi in February 2014. 16/12/2013 Moscow City Court 12/08/2014 5. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 28/01/2015 Rally to express the position of gays and lesbians in support of the return of the annual change to daylight savings time in the Russian Federation. 15/12/2013 Moscow City Court 12/08/2014 6. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, MIKHAYLOVA 29/01/2015 Rally to call for the criminal prosecution of the deputy head of the Department of Regional Security of the Moscow Government V.V. Oleynik as well as other officials of the Moscow Government on the basis of Article 149 of the Russian Criminal Code for the unlawful hindering of all attempts to organise public events to fight homophobia and in support of the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals. 11/11/2013 Moscow City Court 14/08/2014 7. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 30/01/2015 Rally to call for the reform of the Russian language in order to exclude all the words which have the particle “gay” in them. 22/12/2013 Moscow City Court 12/08/2014 8. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 31/01/2015 Rally to express the support for the policy of the Russian Prime, Minister Dmitry, Medvedev towards “gay bears”. 24/11/2013 Moscow City Court 12/08/2014 9. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 02/02/2015 Rally to discuss the “gay gifts” which can be presented to the Geydar Aliyev Centre in Baku. 09/12/2013 Moscow City Court 12/08/2014 10. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, MIKHAYLOVA 07/02/2015 Rally to publicly celebrate the birthday of the founder of the Moscow Gay Pride movement and the Russian LGBT human rights project GayRussia, Nikolay Alekseyev. 23/12/2013 Moscow City Court 12/08/2014 11. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, MIKHAYLOVA 21/02/2015 Rally to call for the strengthening of the fight against HIV/AIDS in the homosexual community on World AIDS Day. 01/12/2013 Moscow City Court 22/08/2014 12. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 21/02/2015 March to call for a collection to buy sports shoes for the former journalist of the Russian TV channel Contr-TV, Anton Krasovskiy, who was sacked for his sexual orientation. 02/12/2013 Moscow City Court 22/08/2014 13. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 25/02/2015 Rally of homosexual people against all bad things. 07/12/2013 Moscow City Court 26/08/2014 14. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, MIKHAYLOVA 28/02/2015 Rally against the discrimination against the deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Vitaliy Milonov, on the basis of his sexual orientation and gender identity. 21/11/2013 Moscow City Court 02/09/2014 15. ALEKSEYEV, ALEKSEYEVA, MIKHAYLOVA 02/03/2015 Rally to call for the improvement of medical services for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community in state health institutions in Russia. 24/12/2013 Moscow City Court 04/09/2014 16. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, MIKHAYLOVA 03/03/2015 Rally to condemn the short-sighted policy of the Russian authorities which results in the forced migration abroad of capable and reproductively healthy homosexual individuals from Russia. 28/11/2013 Moscow City Court 04/09/2014 17. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, MIKHAYLOVA 05/03/2015 Rally to focus the attention of society and of the authorities on the need to take measures to fight homophobia in the world of sports and to promote tolerance towards homosexual athletes. 06/11/2013 Moscow City Court 10/10/2014 18. ALEKSEYEV, ALEKSEYEVA, MIKHAYLOVA 06/03/2015 Rally to call for the expulsion of Russia from the Council of Europe for its failure to comply with the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Alekseyev v. Russia on the illegality of Moscow Gay Pride bans. 12/01/2014 Moscow City Court 24/10/2014 19. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 12/03/2015 Rally calling on gays, lesbians and heterosexuals to press for a total ban on flashing lights on officials’ cars. 09/01/2014 Moscow City Court 24/10/2014 20. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, MIKHAILOVA 13/03/2015 Rally to express gratitude to the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin for the decriminalisation of homosexual relations in Russia in 1993. 25/11/2013 Moscow City Court 14/11/2014 21. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 14/03/2015 Rally of gays, lesbians and their heterosexual friends calling for friendship between nations. 05/01/2014 Moscow City Court 24/10/2014 22. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 16/03/2015 Rally to call for the universal decriminalisation of consensual homosexual relations in every country in the world. 25/12/2013 Moscow City Court 24/10/2014 23. ALEKSEYEV, ALEKSEYEVA, MIKHAILOVA 17/03/2015 Rally to express the support of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community for the raising of the retirement pensions of Russian citizens. 19/12/2013 Moscow City Court 14/11/2014 24. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 18/03/2015 Rally calling on gays, lesbians and heterosexuals to push for the shortening of New Year holidays in order to fight against alcoholism and as a consequence to increase the life expectancy of Russian citizens. 08/01/2014 Moscow City Court 24/10/2014 25. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, MIKHAILOVA 25/03/2015 Rally to express condemnation of the possible state removal of children from the openly lesbian Masha Gessen. 29/11/2013 Moscow City Court 14/11/2014 26. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 08/04/2015 Rally against the appointment of the homophobic journalist Dmitriy Kiselev as general director of the new state information agency Russia Today. 20/12/2013 Moscow City Court 24/10/2014 27. ALEKSEYEV, ALEKSEYEVA, MIKHAILOVA 30/04/2015 Rally to call for the creation of a political party of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender people and their allies in Russia. 29/12/2013 Moscow City Court 10/12/2014 28. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 02/05/2015 Rally to start collecting signatures in support of conducting the public demonstrations at the ninth Moscow Gay Pride in May 2014. 14/01/2014 Moscow City Court 10/12/2014 29. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO, MIKHAILOVA 05/05/2015 1. Rally to express support for the opening of third gender restrooms in all state institutions and commercial companies; 2. Rally to call for the simplification of the procedure to change “gender” in identification documents of transgender individuals without the need for surgery; 3. Rally to congratulate Muscovites and the city’s guests for the New Year 2014 in the name of homosexual Father Frosts and transgender Snow Maidens; 4. Rally to condemn the passage of the tightening of the law regarding responsibility for homosexual relations in Uganda.   1.   26/12/2013     2.   27/12/2013     3.   31/12/2013     4.   15/01/2014 Moscow City Court 20/01/2015 30. ALEKSEYEV, ALEKSEYEVA, MIKHAILOVA 06/05/2015 Rally to call for the broadcasting of the American gay series "Queer As Folk" on Russian federal TV channels. 07/01/2014 Moscow City Court 10/12/2014 31. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 07/05/2015 Rally of homosexual and heterosexual people calling for the reform of the Russian Postal Service in order for it to be more effective in its work. 10/01/2014 Moscow City Court 10/12/2014 32. ALEKSEYEV, ALEKSEYEVA, MIKHAILOVA 11/05/2015 Rally of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and its heterosexual friends calling for peace in the whole world. 16/01/2014 Moscow City Court 10/12/2014 33. ALEKSEYEV 23/05/2015 1. Picket in Arkhangelsk to focus the attention of society and of the authorities on the need for the passage of a federal law banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in Russia; 2.   Rally in Arkhangelsk to focus the attention of Russian society and of the authorities, as well as the international community, on the need for the repeal of laws criminalising consensual homosexual relations between adults around the world; 3.   Arkhangelsk Gay Pride march to express support for the tolerant attitude and respect for the rights and freedoms of persons of homosexual orientation in Russia. 1. 03/05/2014       2.   11/05/2014         3.   12/05/2014 Moscow City Court 02/12/2014 34. ALEKSEYEV 27/05/2015 Rally in Kostroma to call for the criminal prosecution of the head of the Kostroma Administration, V.V. Emets, as well as other officials of the Kostroma Administration, on the basis of the Article 149 of the Russian Criminal Code for the systematic banning of public assemblies to fight homophobia and in support of the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals. 18/04/2014 Moscow City Court 02/12/2014 35. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, RUMYANTSEVA 19/06/2015 Rally to publicly disseminate the quote of the legendary Soviet actress Faina Ranevskaya “Homosexuality is not a perversion. Field hockey and ice ballet are!” 15/09/2014 Kostroma Regional Court 19/01/2015 36. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, RUMYANTSEVA 18/07/2015 Moscow Gay Pride march to raise awareness of homophobia and to promote the rights of sexual minorities. 14/09/2014 Kostroma Regional Court 19/01/2015 37. ALEKSEYEV, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, RUMYANTSEVA 18/07/2015 Rally in central Moscow against the “Law on the Propaganda of Non-Traditional Sexual Relations to Minors". 16/09/2014 Kostroma Regional Court 19/01/2015 38. ALEKSEYEV, ALEKSEYEVA, MIKHAILOVA, NEPOMNYASHCHIY, YEVTUSHENKO 14/09/2015 Seven rallies in central Moscow: 1. to call on the US Congress to adopt anti-discrimination legislation; 2.   against the “exploitation of homosexual reindeer by Santa in Western countries”; 3. in support of LGBT activists convicted of the administrative offence of "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors"; 4.“ to play gay snowballs to warm up homeless people”; 5.   “to express opinions about the incestuous relations between Santa and Snow Maiden”; 6.   to call for the renaming one of Moscow streets after gay activist Harvey Milk; 7.   to call for a referendum on gay marriage. 1. 19/11/2013   2. 30/12/2013   3. 01/01/2014     4. 03/01/2014 5. 04/01/2014   6. 06/01/2014   7. 11/01/2014 Moscow City Court 1.   26/03/2015 2-4. 20/03/201             5. 28/05/2015   6-7. 20/03/2015