Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s former president, is challenging sanctions imposed against him through both Europe’s top human-rights court and the top court of the European Union.
Russian and Ukrainian media reported this morning (5 August) that Yanukovych, who fled Kiev on 21 February, had lodged an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights, a Strasbourg-based court created by the 47-member Council of Europe to rule on cases brought under the 1953 European Convention on Human Rights.
Yesterday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the top court in the EU system, revealed the details of a challenge lodged by Yanukovych in May. Yanukovych’s …read more
Source: European Voice
