On Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:19:58 +0000 Anton Nesterov <komachi@openmailbox.org> wrote:
tl;dr Roman Zakharov, Russian journalist and activist, tried to sue Russian government since 2003 for intercepting his mobile telephone communications and the Russian laws on surveillance as unconstitutional. He failed and then went to the European Court of Human Rights,
What about 'human rights' in europe? I understand europe is a police state like russia and virtually the rest of world? I mean, come on? A bunch of european high-ranking shitbags pointing their fingers at their russian criminal 'colleagues'? And I, unlike Zennaan ( =P ) don't mean this as any kind of endorsement of the russian government...
which ruled that Russian laws violate Article 8 of ECHR and forced Russia to pay 40,000 euro of compensation.
Here is the text http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-159324
It also has a good review of Russian laws about surveillance.