ECHR declares partially admissible lawsuit of Netherlands, Ukraine against Russia
26 Jan 2023 08:33am
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"In its decision in the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia... the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has declared the applications partly admissible," the court's press release read.
The ECHR found that some evidence provided by the governments of Ukraine and the Netherlands was admissible.
"It held that there was sufficient evidence to satisfy the burden of proof at the admissibility stage of administrative practices in violation of a number of Articles of the Convention and it declared the majority of the complaints by the Government of Ukraine admissible. Likewise, the evidential threshold for the purposes of admissibility had been met in respect of the complaints of the Government of the Netherlands concerning the downing of MH17 which were therefore also declared admissible," the ECHR said.
The MH17 passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, crashed in the Donbas conflict zone on July 17, 2014. All 298 passengers, mostly Dutch citizens, and crew members on board were killed. - BERNAMA
