On May 15, the European Court of Human Rights released its decision on the attack on participants of a press tour in Chechnya in 2016. The ECHR found that Russia failed to ensure the victims' right to an effective investigation and awarded them €6,000 in compensation.
The press tour was organized by the human rights organization "Committee for the Prevention of Torture" and focused on human rights violations in Chechnya. The committee's office had already been attacked twice in Grozny, so it was relocated to Ingushetia. The press tour included human rights activists and journalists, including international ones: Ivan Zhiltsov, press secretary for the KPP; Ekaterina Vanslova, an international lawyer; Øystein Windstad, a correspondent for the Norwegian publication Ny Tid; Maria Persson Löfgren of Swedish Radio; Yegor Skovoroda, a correspondent for Mediazona; Alexandrina Elagina, a New Times journalist; Mikhail Solunin, a photographer; and Anton Prusakov, a former Kommersant employee. They reported being followed for two days, accompanied everywhere by a silver Priora with Chechen license plates. On September 3, 2016, while the minibus rented for the press tour was traveling from Ingushetia to Chechnya, near the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, it was cut off by several cars and forced to stop. People wearing medical masks and wielding bats emerged from the vehicles. They ordered the passengers out of the minibus, kicked them, dragged them by the hair, beat them with batons, stole their phones and electronics, set their vehicles on fire, and fled.
According to one of the victims, journalist Yegor Skovoroda, the attackers shouted, "You are defending terrorists, the murderers of our fathers!" They spoke to each other in Chechen. Four passengers required medical attention. The worst-injured were the minibus driver, Bashir Pliev, who suffered a broken arm, leg, and ribs, and Norwegian journalist Øystein Windstad, whose teeth were knocked out by the attackers.

On the same day, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on charges of intentional destruction of property and hooliganism. Charges of robbery and obstruction of journalistic activity were later added.
The Committee for the Prevention of Torture stated that it believes the attack was "Kadyrov-inspired." "I am convinced that these bandits acted on the orders of people who repeatedly threatened to shut down the activities of the JMG (the committee's joint mobile group). Ramzan Kadyrov and his lieutenants have made this promise time and again," said Igor Kalyapin, head of the committee.
Meanwhile, at the time, Kadyrov's press secretary, Alvi Karimov, stated that "not a single journalist, not a single human rights activist—no one—was beaten in the Chechen Republic."
The crime caused a major stir: journalists and human rights activists picketed the Russian presidential administration demanding that the perpetrators be found. Vladimir Putin declared the need to "thoroughly investigate the situation." The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the attack. Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev took special care of the case. Nevertheless, the case remains unsolved—not even the perpetrators have been identified. Petitions from the victims and their lawyers to review the case materials were denied pending the completion of the criminal investigation, which was repeatedly suspended. In 2017, Russiangate reported that the attack was carried out by associates of Ingush religious figure Ibragim Belkhoroev, one of the leaders of the Batalkhadzhin religious group, at the behest of Chechen State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov. However, investigators refused to investigate these individuals for involvement in the crime.
Three years after the attack, the victims filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) alleging an ineffective investigation into their allegations of ill-treatment. The applications from Ekaterina Vanslova, Anton Prusakov, Ivan Zhiltsov, Bashir Pliev, Alexandrina Elagina, Nikita Protsenko, Øystein Windstad, and Mikhail Solunin were consolidated into a single case, "Vanslova and Others v. Russia." The ECHR ruled that the Russian authorities had failed to effectively investigate the ill-treatment committed by private individuals and ordered the state to pay the applicants €6,000 in compensation. The applicants also complained of other violations of the Convention on Human Rights. They claimed that the assault, vandalism, and theft of their property were committed by government officials. The court dismissed these complaints, finding no clear evidence in the case file to support these allegations.
In its decision, the ECHR noted that although the Russian Federation ceased to be a party to the Convention on September 16, 2022, the violations at issue in the complaint occurred prior to that date, and therefore the court has jurisdiction to hear the case of Vanslova and Others v. Russia.

On March 15, 2022, due to its military aggression against Ukraine, Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe.

In response, in June of that year, the Russian Federation adopted a federal law excluding the enforcement of European Court of Human Rights rulings that entered into force in Russia after that date.

"We won't be receiving compensation anytime soon... But it's not about the money. Honestly, I never thought getting this damn decision would be so important to me. I'm sitting here crying. I don't know what else to say right now," Alexandrina Elagina wrote on Facebook. In the comments to her post, one user characterized her emotions as "an urgent need to restore not just justice, but a true picture of the world."