Ukraine's Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko has said that Ukraine would file another complaint in September against Russian Federation in the European Court for Human Rights, this time for banning the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea (the single highest executive-representative body of the Crimean Tatars).
“Our colleagues, lawyers from the Mejlis, have asked for some time in order to collect additional evidence. We decided that the complaint will be filed in September. The court is currently taking summer recess,” Petrenko told journalists on July 15 in Kyiv.
Deputy Justice Minister Natalia Sevostyanova earlier said that Ukraine would provide commentary in support of the first complaint to the ECHR against the Russian Federation involving events in Crimea and eastern Ukraine during 2014 before September 1.
Sevostyanova said on June 23 that all four complaints by Ukraine to the ECHR are at the so-called acceptance stage. “All four active complaints are at that stage. This means that ECHR is governed by a criteria list of admissibility. The decision whether the court has jurisdiction to review the case at all is taken first. The next stage is reviewing the basis of the complaint,” Sevostyanova said.
