Case 256_96

256_96 interference 96. Finally, in the case of Taranenko v. Russia (no. 19554/05, §§ 70-71 and §§ 90-97, 15 May 2014), the applicant was part of a group of about forty people who forced their way through identity and security checks into the reception area of the President’s Administration building which was open to public. When they stormed the building, the protestors pushed one of the guards aside and jumped over furniture before locking themselves in a vacant office where they started to wave placards and to distribute leaflets out of the windows. The applicant was arrested, subsequently charged with participation in mass disorder in connection with her taking part in the protest action and remanded in custody for a year, at the end of which time she was convicted as charged. She was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, suspended for three years. In those circumstances, the Court considered that the applicant’s arrest, detention and conviction constituted an interference with the right to freedom of expression. Unlike the aforementioned cases, in the case of Taranenko, the Court ultimately found a violation of Article 10 of the Convention interpreted in the light of Article