112.ua: Ukraine will again sue Russia over treatment of political prisoners

By Aisha Down.

Published April 18, 2018 at 1:18 pm

Pro-Russian activists guard the entrance of the regional Security Service building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk on April 9, 2014.Ukraine said on Paril 9 that pro-Russian militants had freed 56 after US and EU diplomats set up their first direct talks with Moscow and Kiev aimed at resolving the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. Ukraine's SBU security service said the group walked free from its headquarters in Lugansk after separatists seized the building and other key government offices at the weekend in the mainly Russian-speaking eastern industrial heartland.

Ukraine intends to file a lawsuit to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against Russia due to the violation of the rights of the Ukrainian political prisoners. Ivan Lishchyna, the Deputy Justice Minister for ECHR affairs claimed this as Ukrainian News reported.

‘This year we plan to file not only the sixth lawsuit but also several others. But we do not reveal the details because we are in the active gathering of the information and it is too early to disclose the content of the planned lawsuits. But we can say that the sixth lawsuit concerns the Ukrainian political prisoners. We gather the information and form the claim’, Lishchyna said.