Halya Coynash: Ukraine to answer before ECHR over arrest that sparked anti-Roma riots – KyivPost – Ukraine’s Global Voice – Kyiv Post

Published Oct. 19. Updated Oct. 19 at 9:24 am

This screenshot from the TV Ukraina film, shows Mykhailo Chebotar, arrested in August 2016 over the murder of a 8-year-old girl in Loshchynivka (Odesa oblast).

Photo by Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

The European Court of Human Rights is to examine several alleged violations, including torture and discrimination, in the case of a young man arrested in August 2016 over the murder of a 8-year-old girl in Loshchynivka (Odesa oblast). Mykhailo Chebotar was 21 and lived locally yet his Roma ethnicity was used as a pretext for shocking anti-Roma disturbances, abetted by the local authorities. The defence has also succeeded in adding documents to the case regarding the alleged torture, with the State Bureau of Investigations having initiated an investigation.

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