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