Ukraine has provided the European Court with work for many years to come
Since 2014, Ukraine has bombarded Europeans with such a number of lawsuits against Russia that in four years the European Court of Human Rights has only managed to consider a sixth of the materials.
Representatives of the Ukrainian justice system spoke about this during a conference broadcast by Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Thus, the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Pavel Petrenko noted that over several decades of work of the ECHR, the court has considered only 16 interstate cases, while since 2014 Ukraine has already filed six cases “unprecedented in scope” to the court.
“We are very glad that the first case of Ukraine against Russia – regarding Crimea – was transferred to the Grand Chamber of the ECHR, but almost four years have passed. We will additionally make a huge request that, within the framework of the rules of this court, regulations will be taken to speed up the work on considering the next stages of these cases,” Petrenko said.
At the same time, the lawyer said that the Ukrainian government is additionally submitting a document that “describes massive violations of the rights of Ukrainians on the territory of the aggressor country, which indicates the specific names of officials involved in this.”
Also, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine Ivan Lishchina expressed the hope that this time the cases will not be transferred to the Grand Chamber in four years, since the European Court is learning to work with documents of this scale. At the same time, the official does not doubt the results of consideration of these cases.
“Despite formal non-recognition or recognition, there is a special mechanism for implementing ECHR decisions, which includes supervision by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. Pressure from this and other bodies of the Council of Europe regarding a decision taken in relation to a particular country usually leads to the fact that, perhaps not immediately, but after a year or two, the responsible country somehow implements the decisions. There is an example of cases against Turkey that concerned the conflict in northern Cyprus. Turkey has not recognized these decisions for many years, but is now beginning the path towards recognition and implementation. That is, the decision of the European Court will be implemented in any case,” hopes Ivan Lishchina.
Let us add that earlier a document on the violation of the rights of Ukrainians serving sentences in Russia was commented on by Russian State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, calling this initiative a continuation of the flash mob about “political prisoners and starving people.”
“Unfortunately, Ukraine has been turned into a puppet country that does what it is told. This lawsuit itself is a continuation of a certain flash mob about “political prisoners and starving people.” At the same time, persons who have committed terrorist and extremist crimes are serving their sentences in the Russian Federation,” Poklonskaya said in a commentary to RIA Novosti.
Ukraine has provided the European Court with work for many years to come.