The European Court of Human Rights has found that Ukraine violated the rights of five Ukrainians who were dismissed from their posts as a result of Ukraine’s Government Cleansing (Lustration) Law. The judgement from 17 October 2019 is a fairly damning assessment of aspects of Ukraine’s lustration law, though not unexpected since most of the failings of the law were pointed out back in 20144, but ignored. Volodymyr Yavorskyy, human rights activist and one of the fiercest critics of the law, believes that parliament must now amend the law, and that those dismissed should now be able to get their jobs back.
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Halya Coynash: Damning ECHR judgement puts future of Ukraine’s lustration law in question
This photo shows the inside of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Feb. 7, 2019.
