CONCURRING OPINION OF JUDGE DEDOV

I voted with the majority to find a violation of Article 11 of the Convention in the present case, on the basis of my opinion annexed to the Barabanov v. Russia (nos. 4966/13 and 5550/15, 30 January 2018) judgment. In the present case, the applicant was affected by the brutality of the police officers, who had severely beaten a protester using truncheons. The applicant ’ s behaviour, in my view, was not violent. Instead, he tried to stop the violence, so he grabbed the police officer ’ s hand and pulled it off a protester. Therefore, the present case should be differentiated from the cases of Barabanov , cited above, and Zimin v. Russia (nos. 63686/13 and 60894/14, 30 January 2018).