European Court of Human Rights finds Russia guilty of violating human rights in occupied Crimea
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Russia guilty on June 25 of committing a "pattern or system of violations" of human rights in occupied Crimea since the peninsula was illegally annexed in 2014. The decision stems from several complaints Ukraine brought to the court in the years following Russia's occupation of Crimea. Ukraine argued that Russia had engaged in a "campaign of repression," which included "disappearances; ill-treatment; unlawful detention; impossibility to opt out of Russian citizenship; suppression of Ukrainian media and of the Ukrainian language in schools; pre-tr...