Case 369_19

369_19 personal_scope 19. There is no doubt and it is undisputed among the parties that the applicants suffered a breach of their rights under Articles 5 § 1 and 11 of the Convention. In this respect the Court sees no reason to depart from the conclusion of the national courts, which acknowledged the violation of these Articles. The Court shares this opinion and does not consider it necessary to re-examine the merits of this complaint. The Court also notes that the domestic courts awarded the applicants compensation for non-pecuniary damage. It thus considers that the principal issue is whether the award made was proportionate to the damage the applicants sustained. It recalls in this latter respect that the level of compensation must not be unreasonable in comparison with the awards made by the Court in similar cases (see Burdov v. Russia (no. 2), no. 33509/04, § 99, ECHR 2009). Where, as in the present case, the victim status and therefore, the existence of a violation, is linked with the monetary redress afforded at domestic level, the Court’s assessment necessarily involves comparison between the actual award and the amount that the Court would award in similar cases (see, mutatis mutandis, Scordino v. Italy (no. 1) [GC], no. 36813/97, §§ 181 and 202, ECHR 2006-V, and Holzinger v. Austria (no. 1), no. 23459/94, § 21, ECHR 2001-I).