The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Russian police illegally used a database to follow the movements of human rights activists and place them in preventive detention before a protest march against the government in Samara in 2007. The database was purportedly created in order to enforce anti-extremism laws against skinheads and neo-Nazis, but the 3,865 people in the database in 2007 also included members of opposition parties and human rights activists, such as Sergei Shimovolos of Nizhny Novgorod, who brought the case after his preventive detention for 45 minutes prevented him from participating in the march in 2007. The European Court held that Shimovolos's right to privacy was violated by his inclusion in the database and that the Russian authorities should review the use of the database in order to prevent such violations.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1664631
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