Relatives of those killed and injured during Maidan protests demand to punish judges

The families of those killed and injured during the Maidan protests demand to punish the judges who persecuted the protesters.

The appropriate appeal was filed to the President, the Speaker of Parliament, the judges, the High Council of Justice and the Council of Judges of Ukraine, the Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper reports.

The families claim that the judicial system has not cleansed for two years.

“Only seven out of more than 330 judges, who delivered unjust judgments on Euromaidan cases, have been fired. Nobody has been prosecuted. Majority of these judges continues ‘to administer justice’,” the appeal reads.

The relatives claim that judges turn out to be above suspicion.

“It comes to the absurd. For example, judge A.P. Linnik, who revoked a driving license for a trip to presidential residence in Mezhyhiria, is considering the criminal case against judge V.P. Kytsiuk, who delivered similar judgments. Every court of Kyiv has a judge who was involved in the persecution of activists. Is it possible to trust such courts and trials?” the authors of the appeal ask a rhetorical question.

The appeal states that the Council of Judges “has actually organized a systematic opposition to the investigation into the criminal cases against judges.”

The families of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and people injured during the Maidan protests demand to punish the judges who delivered unjust judgments against the Euromaidan activists.

“We do not ask, but demand that the recipients of this letter take immediate measures to punish the judges who delivered unjust judgments as well as those who gave instructions to the judges. In addition, we demand to implement the ideals which the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred gave their lives and hundreds of injured sacrificed their health for,” the appeal says.