5.  The applicant was born in 1976 and lives in Moscow. 6.  On 2 June 2015 the applicant asked the Federal Migration Service to issue him a travel passport. His application was refused by reference to the fact that he had been convicted on two occasions and given suspended sentences which had not yet expired (see, for details, as regards the first conviction, Navalnyy and Ofitserov v. Russia, nos. 46632/13 and 28671/14, 23 February 2016, and, as regards the second conviction, Navalnyye v. Russia, no. 101/15, 17 October 2017). 7.  The applicant asked the court of general jurisdiction to overturn the refusal, relying in particular on the Court’s finding of a violation of Article 2 of Protocol No. 4 in a similar case of Nalbantski v. Bulgaria (no. 30943/04, 10 February 2011). 8.  On 30 September 2015 the Zamoskvoretskiy District Court in Moscow upheld the refusal as lawful, finding as follows:
“The complainant’s reference to the European Court’s judgment of 10 February 2011 in the case of Nalbantski v. Bulgaria is unsubstantiated because, in view of Mr Navalnyy’s personality, there are clear indications of a real public interest that outweigh the [complainant’s] right to freedom of movement.” 9.  On 4 December 2015 the Moscow City Court upheld the District Court’s judgment in a summary fashion. On 14 January 2016 the City Court corrected a clerical error in the date of the judgment. 10.  On 27 April 2017 the applicant was assaulted when leaving his office. The attacker threw green dye in his face and he suffered a chemical burn to his right eye. 11.  Faced with the risk of losing sight, on 3 May 2017 the applicant asked for authorisation to go to Spain for eye surgery. On the following day he was issued with a travel passport on humanitarian grounds.