The Country of Illegal Searches

They write that the State Bureau of Investigation conducted another “urgent” search. Without a ruling from the investigating judge. This time, at Shabunin’s.

And just yesterday, on July 10, 2022, the European Court of Human Rights published its decision on the case of KORNIYETS AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE , which concerns the shameful habit of Ukrainian law enforcement officers, although what law enforcement officers are there, I will write, security forces.

So the decision in the case of KORNIYETS AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE directly concerns the shameful habit of Ukrainian security forces to conduct arbitrary searches under the guise of “urgent” ones.

Our law firm partner Vladimir Efimenko made an effort to bring this decision to light.

The European Court of Human Rights found such searches and the lack of opportunity to effectively challenge them to be a violation of Articles 8 (Right to respect for private and family life) and 13 (Right to an effective remedy) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The European Court of Human Rights has found that Ukrainian investigators and prosecutors abuse their right to enter homes without a court order and too often do so without justification.

And Ukrainian investigative judges, according to the ECHR decision, will not check the validity of the “urgent” searches, but will simply rewrite the investigators’ fabrications.

Let’s hope that the ECHR’s decision will help bring to justice those who like to rummage through other people’s things, as well as the judges who cover for them.

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