ECtHR: Russia has dedicated many human rights violations on the Crimean peninsula

It’s Ukraine that has introduced the case to court docket. The nation’s authorities believed that Russia has been behind in depth human rights violations because the Russians occupied and annexed the Crimean peninsula in February 2014.

On Tuesday, Ukraine received. The Court docket concludes that Russia has violated the European Conference on Human Rights, amongst different issues, with regard to the best to life, the prohibition of inhuman and degrading therapy, the best to non secular freedom and freedom of expression.

Tuesday’s ruling was not in regards to the annexation itself, however regarding actions that Russia has dedicated followingwards.

Russia was kicked out of the Council of Europe within the wake of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Which means the nation is not lined by the European Conference on Human Rights, which varieties the authorized foundation for the Human Rights Court docket in Strasbourg,

Nonetheless, the court docket can cope with instances that concern occasions earlier than Russia was banned. The case that Tuesday’s ruling is regarding occurred in March 2024.

Russia has beforehand denied accusations that it has dedicated human rights violations and that it represses political opponents on the annexed Ukrainian peninsula.