ECHR judgment of September 17, 2019 in the case of Iovcev and Others v. Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation (application No. 40942/14).
In 2014, the applicants were assisted in preparing the application. Subsequently, the application was communicated to the Russian Federation.
The case has successfully examined an application about violations of the applicants' rights to education, respect for private and family life, as well as unlawful deprivation of liberty, unlawfulness of searches carried out at them and confiscation of their property, lack of effective legal remedies to exercise their rights violated by the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaya authorities Of the Republic. " The case has violated paragraph 1 of Article 5 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (right to liberty and security of person), Article 8 of the Convention (right to respect for private and family life), Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention (right to education) the authorities of the Russian Federation; the authorities of the Republic of Moldova did not commit violations of the Convention.
In their application, the applicants, 18 citizens of the Republic of Moldova, complained about violations of their right to education, the right to respect for private and family life, illegal imprisonment, the illegality of their searches and confiscation of their property, as well as the lack of effective legal remedies to exercise their rights violated by the authorities of the Transdniestrian Moldavian Republic.
On September 17, 2019, on an application filed by the applicants, the Court unanimously ruled that the Government violated the requirements of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention (right to liberty and security of person), Article 8 of the Convention (right to respect for private and family life), Article 2 Protocol No. 1 to the Convention (the right to education) and that the authorities of the Republic of Moldova did not commit any violation of the Convention, and ordered the authorities of the Russian Federation to pay the applicants various amounts from 6,000 to 12,000 euros in respect of moral Foot injury.