Rights Court Condemns Ukraine Over Violence Against Maidan Protesters
An aerial photo of Kiev, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) (CN) — On the seventh anniversary of the violent and historic Maidan uprising in Ukraine, Europe’s human rights court on Thursday ruled that Ukrainian police and authorities committed widespread abuses against protesters. For many in Ukraine, the findings by the European Court of Human Rights, or ECHR, come as a long-awaited verdict by the Strasbourg court to condemn the crackdown on protests by Ukrainian forces as inhuman and a violation of international human rights laws. The court’s rulings involved 38 people who to...
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