Over recent days Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has spoken in two television interviews of the high-profile trial of three people accusing of killing Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet, with his comments disturbingly misleading. Earlier statements from Avakov are already part of a case against Ukraine at the European Court of Human Rights, and the same concerns about violations of the defendants’ right to a fair trial are likely to be raised over these comments as well.
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Interior minister Arsen Avakov speaks during the parliament meeting on June 5, 2020.
