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• Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized and corrected errors in the judgement on the case against Vasilij Kononov

Russian-language newspapers referring to statements of the former Red Partisan Vasilij Kononov’s lawyer Mikhail Ioffe to the Russian press report that the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized and corrected errors in the judgement on the case against Vasilij Kononov. Mikhail Ioffe pointed to the fact that a judge from the Czech Republic who did not participated in voting was wrongly included into the list of judges. According to the lawyer, the Grand Chamber has also found new circumstances of Kononov’s case which therefore will need to be reviewed. In May 2010, the Grand Chamber, by 14 votes to three, ruled that Vasilij Kononov’s conviction of war crimes during WWII did not violate Article 7 (no punishment without law) of the European Convention of Human Rights. In an earlier judgment in 2008, ECtHR established that Latvia had violated Article 7 and awarded Mr. Kononov EUR 30,000 in compensation for moral damages. In 2009 the case was referred to the Grand Chamber at the Latvian government’s request.

Russian-language newspapers referring to statements of the former Red Partisan Vasilij Kononovs lawyer Mikhail Ioffe to the Russian press report that the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized and corrected errors in the judgement on the case against Vasilij Kononov. Mikhail Ioffe pointed to the fact that a judge from the Czech Republic who did not participated in voting was wrongly included into the list of judges. According to the lawyer, the Grand Chamber has also found new circumstances of Kononovs case which therefore will need to be reviewed. In May 2010, the Grand Chamber, by 14 votes to three, ruled that Vasilij Kononovs conviction of war crimes during WWII did not violate Article 7 (no punishment without law) of the European Convention of Human Rights. In an earlier judgment in 2008, ECtHR established that Latvia had violated Article 7 and awarded Mr. Kononov EUR 30,000 in compensation for moral damages. In 2009 the case was referred to the Grand Chamber at the Latvian governments request. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Telegraf