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Deutsche Welle: Protests in Kyiv after top court scraps anti-graft laws

Published Oct. 30, 2020 at 4:59 pm

A smoke bomb thrown by protesters goes off near the Constitutional Court in Kyiv on Oct. 30, 2020. Several hundred people protested the court, demanding that its judges resign, following their controversial ruling on the anti-graft laws.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Kyiv on Friday in protest at a court ruling that struck down a raft of anti-corruption laws.

Protesters, including students and anti-corruption activists, held placards which read “Corrupted court of Ukraine” and “Out the pigs of the constitutional court.”