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European rights court finds Ukraine never investigated whether a 2016 attack on two Jehovah's Witnesses was religiously motivated

Illustration: an empty doorstep with scattered pamphlets beside a closed case file marked with a stopped clock

In Barsuk and Gyl v. Ukraine, a unanimous Fifth Section Chamber held that Ukraine breached Article 3 and Article 9, each taken with Article 14, by describing the attacker's motive with a stock legal formula and letting the five-year prosecution deadline expire. The Court did not decide why the attack happened — only that Ukraine never seriously tried to find out. Each applicant was awarded EUR 4,000.