CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 14 novembre 2017

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sA6BC7FA7 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:right } .s9793A85B { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt } .s5E1364CA { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s8229ABDD { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center } .s68C46B95 { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center } .s3F59B822 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-transform:uppercase }   Communicated on 14 November 2017   THIRD SECTION Application no. 9157/08 Aleksey Petrovich MANANNIKOV against Russia lodged on 8 January 2008 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The application concerns the applicant’s right to freedom of expression. On 27 October 2007 he showed up at a pro-incumbency rally and unfurled a banner that read “Putin better than Hitler”. The police removed him from the meeting and a judge fined him for “a breach of the established order for conducting meetings that resulted in a threat to public security”. A detailed statement of facts is available in the case of the applicant’s co-defendant Mr   Batenev (no. 14620/08). QUESTION tO THE PARTIES Was there a violation of the applicant’s right to freedom of expression guaranteed by Article 10 of the Convention?