EuropeThe best judicial judicial for human rights is set as a rule on Wednesday RussiaActions in conflict in Ukraineincluding human rights violations during full invasion and descent Malaysia Airlines Let MH17.
Judges on European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg will rule in four cases, brought Ukraine and The Netherlands against RussiaIndicating the first time that the International Court will judge Russian guilt for the wider conflict in Ukraine from 2014. years.
Every decision will be largely symbolic. Complaints were brought before the expulsion of the Court’s Management Body Moscow 2022. Year, after invasion in full scale.
The families of the MH17 victims see a decision as an important turning point in their 11-year-old search for justice.
“It’s a real step in understanding who was really responsible,” said Thomas Schanhanman, who lost the 18-year-old son Quinn in Tragedy, told the associated press.
Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot in 17. July 2014, using a Russian racket of crack noise from the territory in eastern Ukraine under the control of separatist rebels. All 298 passengers and crew were killed, including 196 Dutch citizens.
In May, the UN Aviation Agency found Russia responsible for the disaster.
Echr is an important part Council of EuropeThe most important institution for the human rights of the continent. Russia was expelled from the Council of Moscow on Invasion and the Rat in Ukraine. However, the Court can still address cases against Russia from before being expelled.
2023. The judges were found in Ukraine and the Netherlands in the challenge of jurisdiction, finding that there is sufficient evidence to show areas in eastern Ukraine under the control of separatist rebels, “including weapons providing and giving political and economic support.
The decision on Wednesday will not be the last from the EHCR dealing with the war. Kiev There are other cases that are underway against Russia and has almost 10,000 cases that individuals brought against the Kremlin.
Decisions in Strasbourg are separated from criminal prosecution in the Netherlands in which two Russians and the Ukrainian rebel are convicted in the absence of more murders for their roles in the MH17 flight roles.
Meanwhile, 2022. year, the Supreme Court of the United Nations ordered Russia to stop military operations in Ukraine, while the case is heard, the process lasting years. Russia has drank the order by International Court of Justice.
Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky formally granted plans to appoint a new Tribunal for the prosecution of high-Russian officials for full invasion in Ukraine.
Schansman, who has also made an individual case to ECHR, has no plans to stop persecuting justice, more than a decade after his son’s death. “The worst we could stop fighting,” he said. “MH17 is not the case that will disappear for Russia.”