In yet another move discrediting the much-trumpeted reform of Ukraine’s Supreme Court, the High Qualification Commission of Judges has overcome the civic veto imposed on the appointment of Yaroslav Romanyuk to one of the judges’ posts vacant. A two-thirds majority (11 out of the 16, with only three voting against) saw nothing unacceptable about the appointment of a judge who publicly defended the repressive anti-protest laws of Jan. 16, 2014, and whose ruling, evicting a 97-year-old from her home, was found by the European Court of Human Rights to have violated the elderly lady’s rights.
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The statue of Lady Justice Themis is seen on April 5, 2017, at the Supreme Court of Ukraine in Kyiv.
