The European Court of Human Rights said cases brought by Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia over alleged human rights violations were admissible.
Posted: Jan 25, 2023 11:18 AM EST | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
The cases will now move on to the merits stage, expected take another one to two years before a final decision is issued.The ECHR decision opens the doors to at least three other cases by the Ukrainian state against Russia, as well as thousands of individual cases, which had been put on hold pending the decision on jurisdiction.
The court says it has jurisdiction in cases already started before Moscow's withdrawal from the ECHR's writ, and Russia could be ordered to pay damages, but the court has no way to enforce its rulings.The court's finding that Moscow did control pro-Russian forces in Ukraine mirrors a Dutch court ruling last November that Moscow had "overall control" over the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic in Eastern Ukraine from mid-May 2014.
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