MOSCOW, March 2 (RAPSI, Diana Gutsul) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has communicated an application filed by Igor Berezyuk, who was convicted of having participated in the 2010 Moscow riots waged by football fans and nationalists, lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky told RAPSI on Wednesday.

Berezyuk insists that Russian authorities have violated Article 5 (Right to Liberty and Security) of the European Convention of Human Rights by illegally extending the detention.

According to the prosecution, as many as 5,000 football fans and nationalists caused public unrest on December 11, 2010 in Moscow after a rally to commemorate FC Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov, who was shot dead on December 6, 2010.

Thirty-two people were injured in the riots.

The Tverskoy District Court sentenced five individuals to prison terms ranging from two to five and a half years in October 2011.

In March 2012, the Moscow City Court reduced the three defendants' sentences by several months. In particular, Ruslan Khubayev received three years and nine months instead of four years. Berezyuk had his sentence reduced by three months to five years and three months. The court also reduced Alexander Kozevin's sentence to two years and four months instead of two years and six months.