The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) reviewed the appeal of the victim of domestic violence of Russians Margarita Gracheva, whose husband cut off her brushes of both hands. According to the decision published on the instance website, the court ordered Russia to pay a woman compensation in the amount of 370 thousand euros.
The ECHR recognized the Russian side guilty of violating the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, namely, Article 3, in which the ban on the use of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is prescribed. In particular, the court indicated that in the Russian law there is no concept of “family violence”, it is not considered as the reason for law enforcement.
By decision of the ECHR, Russia is obliged to pay the Gracheva 330660 euros compensation for spending on medical services, as well as 40 thousand euros compensation for the moral damage. The court also ordered the state to pay 20 thousand euros to other applicants, who were also victims of domestic violence, namely Natalia Tunic, Elena Gershman and Irina Petrakova.
In December 2017, Dmitry Grachev brought his wife Margarita to the forest and cut off her brushes to the ax that she wanted to divorce with him, after which she took her by car to the hospital. Doctors were able to restore the left brush of women, for the right hand made a prosthesis. The criminal was sentenced to 14 years in a strict regime colony. Before that, the woman has repeatedly appealed to the police with complaints about the violence from the spouse, however, law enforcement officers refused to initiate a criminal case.