The European Court of Human Rights announced late on Tuesday that, in the current war context, Kyiv had formally asked it to “suspend the examination of all applications against Ukraine until further notice”. This request was made in a letter dated 24 February.
In response and “following the military attack of February 2022”, the Court decided to do so for all “cases in which Ukraine is a respondent or an applicant government”.
A series of measures have been put in place which are applicable from now on and “until further notice”, subject to exceptions authorised by Robert Spano, the President of the Court.
With the exception of requests for urgent interim measures, new applications will be registered for further consideration.
For cases where the file is ready for examination, decisions and judgments will continue to be adopted, but will not be published or communicated to the parties.
“Application of these measures will be reassessed in the light of developments in the situation in Ukraine by the end of March 2022 at the latest”. (Original version in French by Véronique Leblanc)