US EditionECHR rules Ukraine failed to prevent, investigate violence in Odesa in 2014
- The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Ukrainian authorities failed to prevent and investigate violence during clashes in Odesa in May 2014, resulting in 48 deaths, including 42 trapped in a burning building and two shot dead.
- The court concluded that Ukrainian officials did not ensure timely rescue measures and failed to conduct effective investigations into the incident, as urged by the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
- The ECHR ordered the Ukrainian government to compensate 28 applicants, which included 25 relatives of the deceased and three survivors, for the state's negligence in the Odesa events.
- The ruling highlighted that Russian propaganda distorted the situation in Odesa, exploiting the events to undermine Ukraine's EuroMaidan Revolution, which started as a response to Pro-Kremlin President Viktor Yanukovych's decision in 2013.
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ECHR condemns Ukraine for events in Odessa, one of the perpetrators killed
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Ukraine must pay compensation to victims of the 2014 arson attack on a trade union center in Odessa. At that time, 46 "anti-Maidan" protesters died in the flames and jumping from the upper floors of the burning building, which was set on fire by Ukrainian extreme nationalists. Just a day after the verdict, one of the nationalist activists, Demjan Ganul, who is believed to have participated in the…
The ECHR found Ukraine guilty of inaction during the clashes and the fire in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa in 2014
The European Court of Human Rights found that the Ukrainian authorities allowed inaction during the fire in the Trade Unions Building in Odessa on May 2, 2014, thus violating an article of the European Convention on the Right to Life.
ECHR Says Ukraine Failed to Prevent 2014 Odesa Clashes, Acknowledges Russian Propaganda Role
Europe's top human rights court on Thursday ruled in the case on deadly 2014 clashes between opponents and supporters of Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution in the city of Odesa. Clashes that unfolded in the Black Sea port city culminated on May 4, 2014, when pro-Ukraine activists tried to storm Odesa's Soviet-era Trade Union building where dozens of pro-Russia and anti-Maidan activists had barricaded themselves.
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