MOSCOW, December 21 (RAPSI, Diana Gutsul) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Russia to pay €900 in compensation to Igor Berezyuk, who was convicted of participating in the 2010 Moscow riots waged by football fans and nationalists, lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky told RAPSI on Wednesday.

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

According to prosecutors, 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 2 to 5.5 years in October 2011.

In March 2012, the Moscow City Court reduced the three defendants' sentences by several months. In particular, Ruslan Khubayev received 3 years and 9 months instead of 4 years. Berezyuk had his sentence reduced by 3 months to 5 years and 3 months. The court also reduced Alexander Kozevin's sentence to 2 years and 4 months instead of 2 years and 6 months.