Thread: Ukraine Takes Russia to Europe Rights Court Over 'Targeted Assassinations'

Ukraine has accused Russia of targeted assassinations of "perceived opponents" in a case lodged at the European Court of Human Rights, the latest salvo by Kiev in a barrage of legal complaints against Moscow.


The case, which was filed last week, accuses Russia of carrying out "state-authorized" assassinations "in Russia and on the territory of other states... outside a situation of armed conflict," the court said Tuesday.

Europeiska Pravda, a Ukrainian news outlet specializing in European affairs, said the complaint included the case of leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was poisoned last year with the Novichok nerve agent in an attack blamed on Moscow.


This could not immediately be confirmed by the Strasbourg court, which provided no details of any of the alleged assassinations in its statement.


It is the ninth case taken by Ukraine against Russia at the ECHR, which hears complaints over alleged breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights.


"We have finally done this," said Ivan Lishchyna, Ukraine's deputy justice minister and a commissioner for the rights court.


"We tried to cover all cases for which there is solid evidence of Russian involvement," he said on Facebook.


Ukraine also accuses Russia of failing to investigate the assassinations "and of deliberately mounting cover-up operations aimed at frustrating efforts to find the persons responsible," the court said.


Ukraine argues that they constitute an infringement of the right to life, which is protected by the Convention on Human Rights, to which Russia is a signatory.


Other cases taken by Ukraine relate to the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, human rights violations in the Crimea peninsula which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and Russia's seizure of three Ukrainian navy vessels in the Kerch Strait in 2018.


Ukraine's government has been at war with separatists in eastern Ukraine since pro-Russian militias launched a bid for independence in the wake of Moscow's annexation of Crimea.


Nearly 13,000 people have been killed in the conflict, which deepened Russia's estrangement from the West.


Ukraine Takes Russia to Europe Rights Court Over 'Targeted Assassinations' - The Moscow Times

Ukraine's government has been at war with separatists in eastern Ukraine since Russian-backed militias launched a bid for independence in the wake of Moscow's annexation of Crimea and shot down a civilian airliner.

FTFY.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The Ukraine's government has been at war with separatists in Eastern Ukraine since Russian-backed militias launched a bid for independence in the wake of Moscow's annexation of Crimea..

And FTFY.

For a self recognized man of blinding intelligence your grammar sure as hell sucks the big one.

Painful to read. Grinding on the senses.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

And FTFY.

For a self recognized man of blinding intelligence your grammar sure as hell sucks the big one.

You really a witless fuck aren't you?

I rest my case.

Oh dear, is Ukraine gonna default on paying it's natural gas bill again?

Originally Posted by sabang

Oh dear, is Ukraine gonna default on paying it's natural gas bill again?

Is Ukraine going to get cut off again?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Is Ukraine going to get cut off again?

Yes, when the Nordstream is finished...

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

FTFY.

So the U govt is forced to bomb their own population...

Originally Posted by Klondyke

So the U govt is forced to bomb their own population...

English, arsehole. Try it.

^There is hardly a language you would comprehend in your Ignorancy. Why not to try with pictures? Your Jack-in-box is not good enough for you?

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Why not to try with pictures?

Almost witty . . . yet so pathetic. Russians and humour . . . nyet, tovarish. Sadness, alcoholism and depression . . . da, tovarish

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