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1. Phenomenon of Politically Motivated Justice and Its Relevance for the Rule of Law in the Former USSR

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Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the phenomenon of politically motivated justice and a general classification of political trials. The aim of the chapter is to develop a conceptual framework for identifying constitutional practices and roles played by trials against politicians and political parties in established democracies and in transitional states of the former USSR. Several steps are taken to outline the framework of my research. First, the chapter gives a succinct summary of the existing research on politically motivated justice and my contribution to the debate. Second, based on the already existing theories I give my own definition of a political trial in the context of the post-communist transition to the rule of law. Third, it offers a novel research concept I use in the next chapters in order to analyze recent political cases in the selected former Soviet republics and countries of Western Europe. The main goal of this analysis is to demonstrate the subversive character of politicized criminal justice which can override constitutional provisions and undermine democratic transformations in transitional former Soviet republics.

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Freedom House 2020.
 
2
Posner 2005, p. 76.
 
3
Ibid., p. 106.
 
4
Kirchheimer 1961, p. 46.
 
5
Ibid., p. 25.
 
6
Barna and Pető 2015, p. 25.
 
7
Ibid.
 
8
Laughland 2008, p. 17.
 
9
Laughland 2008, p. 16.
 
10
Ibid., p. 7.
 
11
See the Statute of the Council of Europe, opened for signature 5 May 1949 (entered into force 3 August 1949) https://​conventions.​coe.​int/​Treaty/​EN/​Treaties/​Html/​001.​htm. Accessed 22 August 2020.
 
12
See the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), opened for signature 4 November 1950 (entered into force 3 September 1953) (the Preamble). https://​www.​hri.​org/​docs/​ECHR50.​html. Accessed 22 August 2020.
 
13
The WJP Rule of Law Index methodology is available at https://​worldjusticeproj​ect.​org/​methodology. Accessed 22 August 2020.
 
14
See the World Justice Project (WJP) What is the Rule of Law? https://​worldjusticeproj​ect.​org/​what-rule-law. Accessed 22 August 2020.
 
15
In particular, Austria and Germany scored 0.82 and 0.81 points that correspond to the 7th and 8th places in the 2015 Global Rule of Law ranking respectively. Belarus and Ukraine scored 0.53 and 0.48 points with the correspondent 50th and 70th global ranking, available at https://​data.​worldjusticeproj​ect.​org/​. Accessed 22 August 2020.
 
16
Schor 2006.
 
17
Christenson 1999, p. 29.
 
18
Ibid.
 
19
Ibid., p. 11.
 
20
Laughland 2008, pp. 13–19.
 
21
Kirchheimer 1961, p. 46.
 
22
Ibid.
 
23
Hodos 1987, p. xiii.
 
24
Posner 2005, p. 106.
 
25
Ibid., p. 107.
 
26
Ibid., p. 106.
 
27
Christenson 1999, p. 27.
 
28
Viola 2017.
 
29
Christenson 1999, p. 29.
 
30
Trochev 2008.
 
31
For instance, Article 125 of the 1936 Constitution guaranteed the “freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings”. The text of the 1936 Constitution in English language is available at https://​www.​departments.​bucknell.​edu/​russian/​const/​36cons04.​html#chap10. Accessed 25 December 2020. Although Soviet dissidents could occasionally organize peaceful assemblies, they were more often arrested for violating public order protected under Article 190.3 of the RSFSR Criminal Code. In particular, “Article 190-3…was a response to group demonstrations that took place after the [dissidents] Sinyavsky-Daniel trial in support of the defendants.” In: Berman 1972, p. 82.
 
32
Andrei Medushevsky (2011) Stalinizm kak model. Obozreniye izdatelskogo proekta ROSSPEN. Istoriya stalinizma, Vestnik Evropy, no. 30. https://​magazines.​gorky.​media/​vestnik/​2011/​30/​stalinizm-kak-model-obozrenie-izdatelskogo-proekta-rosspen-istoriya-stalinizma.​html. Accessed 24 December 2020.
 
33
Mazmanyan 2012, p. 313.
 
34
Ibid., p. 319.
 
35
Ibid., p. 322.
 
36
Argenbright 2002, p. 252.
 
37
Mazmanyan 2012, p. 319.
 
38
Mazmanyan 2012.
 
39
Rubenstein 1980.
 
40
Mazmanyan 2012, p. 319.
 
41
Solomon 1996, p. 467.
 
42
Sakwa 2010, p. 192.
 
43
Sakwa 2010, p. 194.
 
44
Ibid.
 
45
Sadurski 2012, p. 45.
 
46
See (1) Ginsburg and Simpser 2013; (2) Barros 2002; (3) Murphy 2006; (4) Myerson 2008; (5) Brown 2011.
 
47
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 1.
 
48
Hale 2011.
 
49
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 2.
 
50
Przeworski 2013, pp. 21–35.
 
51
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 6.
 
52
Rotunda 1998.
 
53
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 3.
 
54
Hale 2011.
 
55
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 3.
 
56
Root 1989. See also Ginsburg and Simpser 2013.
 
57
Hirschman 1992. See also Ginsburg and Simpser 2013.
 
58
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 2.
 
59
Hale 2011.
 
60
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 6.
 
61
Golove and Hulsebosch 2010.
 
62
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 10.
 
63
Ibid.
 
64
Hollyer and Rosendorff 2011.
 
65
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 7.
 
66
Gravina 2017.
 
67
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 7.
 
68
Popov and Uporov 2017.
 
69
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 7.
 
70
Law and Versteeg 2013, p. 8.
 
71
Ibid.
 
72
Ludwikowski 1996.
 
73
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013.
 
74
Repressii i Konstitutsia SSSR 1936 goda 2002.
 
75
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 8.
 
76
Croissant and Kamerling 2013, pp. 105–125.
 
77
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 12.
 
78
Schweber 2013.
 
79
Hale 2011.
 
80
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 8.
 
81
Gravina 2017.
 
82
Albertus and Menaldo 2013, pp. 53–83.
 
83
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 9.
 
84
Myerson 2008.
 
85
Fearon 2011, p. 5.
 
86
Simpser 2013. See also Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 5.
 
87
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 13.
 
88
Repressii i Konstitutsia SSSR 1936 goda 2002.
 
89
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 13.
 
90
Ibid., p. 13.
 
91
Hale 2011.
 
92
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 14.
 
93
Croissant and Kamerling 2013, pp. 105–125.
 
94
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 14.
 
95
Gravina 2017.
 
96
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p 14.
 
97
Ludwikowski 1996.
 
98
Helmke and Levitsky 2004.
 
99
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 218.
 
100
Fraenkel 1969.
 
101
Sharlet 1998.
 
102
Sakwa 2013.
 
103
“And Russia is not alone…It is part of a surprisingly large group of authoritarian or quasi-authoritarian countries in which the courts mostly function within the law, but in which the political leadership feels entitled to use the courts to serve its goals and turns a blind eye to others with power or influence who are doing the same.” In: Hendley 2017, p. 3. See also Melville and Mironyuk 2016, pp. 132–51.
 
104
Hendley 2017, p. 2.
 
105
Hale 2011.
 
106
Hendley 2017, p. 5.
 
107
Trochev 2017.
 
108
Shragin and Todd 1977; Hendley 2017, p. 5.
 
109
Ibid.
 
110
Ibid., p. 6.
 
111
Frierson 1986, pp. 526–545. See also Hendley 2017.
 
112
Hendley 2017, p. 6.
 
113
Hendley 2017, pp. 7–8.
 
114
Ibid. See also Feifer 1964 and Farnsworth 1986.
 
115
Frierson 1986, pp. 526–545.
 
116
Yanin 1996.
 
117
Hendley 2017, p. 9. See also Pipes 1986.
 
118
Ibid., p. 9.
 
119
Ibid.
 
120
Solomon 1996, p. 467.
 
121
Hendley 2017, p. 10.
 
122
Hendley 2017, p. 13.
 
123
Kotkin 1997; Hendley 2017, p. 14.
 
124
Hellbeck 2000; Engelstein and Sandler 2000.
 
125
Hendley 2017, p. 14.
 
126
Boym 1995; Hendley 2017, p. 14.
 
127
Pomerantsev 2014; Hendley 2017, p. 14.
 
128
Hendley 2017, p. 4.
 
129
Raz 2009, p. 325.
 
130
Several authors developed the labelling theories, i.e. (1) Gove 1980; (2) Paternoster and Iovanni 1989; (3) Becker 1963; (4) Braithwaite 1989.
 
131
Macnaughton-Smith 1968.
 
132
Ibid., p. 193.
 
133
Macnaughton-Smith 1968, p. 193.
 
134
Ibid.
 
135
Ibid.
 
136
Ibid., p. 194.
 
137
Solomon 2016.
 
138
Kovalev 2004.
 
139
Solomon 1992, p. 37.
 
140
Carothers 1999.
 
141
Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press 2010.
 
142
Ergun 2010, pp. 67–85.
 
143
Garfinkel 1956, pp. 420–24.
 
144
Ibid., p. 424.
 
145
Ibid., p. 421.
 
146
Hodos 1987.
 
147
Garfinkel 1956, p. 424.
 
148
Ibid.
 
149
Garfinkel 1956, p. 422.
 
150
Ibid.
 
151
Stiglitz 2003.
 
152
Merkel and Croissant 2000.
 
153
Wilson 2005.
 
154
Ledeneva and Kurkchiyan 2000.
 
155
Ibid., p. 17.
 
156
Ledeneva and Kurkchiyan 2000.
 
157
Gravina 2017.
 
158
Ledeneva and Kurkchiyan 2000, p. 2.
 
159
Ledeneva 2006, p. 13.
 
160
Ibid.
 
161
Popova 2012, p. 10.
 
162
Ibid., p. 9.
 
163
Ledeneva 2006, p. 13.
 
164
Ledeneva 2006.
 
165
Ibid., p. 194.
 
166
Solomon 1992, p. 37.
 
167
Ledeneva 2006, p. 13.
 
168
Rebitschek 2015.
 
169
Ibid.
 
170
Ledeneva 2006, p. 27.
 
171
Ibid., p. 189.
 
172
Sakwa 2010.
 
173
Ledeneva 2006, p. 16.
 
174
Article 18 ECHR—Limitation on use of restrictions on rights. The violation of this article can be found only in conjunction with another article of the Convention. Moreover, to meet the burden of proof required under Article 18, an applicant must prove “that the whole legal machinery of the respondent State…was ab initio misused, that from the beginning to the end the authorities were acting with bad faith and in blatant disregard of the Convention.” See the ECtHR, the final judgment in the case ‘Khodorkovskiy v. Russia’, 31 May 2011, Case No. 5829/04, p. 64, para 255. https://​hudoc.​echr.​coe.​int/​sites/​eng/​pages/​search.​aspx#{%22appno%22:​[%225829/​04%22],%22itemid%22:​[%22001-104983%22]}. Accessed 22 December 2020.
 
175
Sakwa 2010.
 
176
Ibid., p. 203.
 
177
Ibid., p. 198.
 
178
Hendley 2009, p. 201.
 
179
Sakwa 2010, pp. 199, 202.
 
180
King et al. 1994.
 
181
The official statistics of the European Court of Human Rights are available at https://​www.​echr.​coe.​int/​pages/​home.​aspx?​p=​reports&​c. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
182
OSCE/ODIHR election observation reports. https://​www.​osce.​org/​odihr/​elections. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
183
ENEMO election observation reports available at https://​www.​enemo.​eu/​en/​home. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
184
EU-Ukraine association deal might hit ratification problems if Tymoshenko situation remains unchanged. https://​www.​kyivpost.​com/​article/​content/​ukraine-politics/​eu-ukraine-association-deal-might-hit-ratification-112197.​html?​cn-reloaded=​1. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
185
According to the Global Competiveness Report 2014–2015, Germany occupies the 15th place with 5.9 points, while Austria is on the 28th place with 5.2 points. https://​reports.​weforum.​org/​global-competitiveness-report-2014-2015/​rankings/​. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
186
Mayr 2011.
 
187
See more about President Wulff’s resignation at https://​www.​bbc.​co.​uk/​news/​world-europe-17072479. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
188
According to the 2015 Corruption Perception Index, Ukraine had 130th place with a score of 27 points among 168 countries. https://​www.​transparency.​org/​cpi2015. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
189
In 2015, Belarus occupied 107th place and scored 32 points, at https://​www.​transparency.​org/​cpi2015. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
190
See the Recommendation 1441 (2000) on the situation in Belarus. https://​assembly.​coe.​int/​nw/​xml/​XRef/​Xref-XML2HTML-en.​asp?​fileid=​16771&​lang=​en. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
191
Bennett 2012.
 
192
Since the launch of Freedom House’s annual “Freedom in the Worldrating in 1972 Belarus has been consistently rated as “non-free” or “partially free” for its low level of political rights and civil liberties protection. https://​www.​freedomhouse.​org/​report-types/​freedom-world#.​VBcDDxYyKSo. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
193
According to the Freedom House, Ukraine had a “free” status from 2005 until 2010. https://​www.​freedomhouse.​org/​report-types/​freedom-world#.​VBcDDxYyKSo. Accessed 25 December 2020.The 2018 ‘Freedom in the World’ Score ranked Ukraine as ‘Partly Free’. https://​freedomhouse.​org/​report/​freedom-world/​freedom-world-2018. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
194
Linz 2000; Ezrow and Frantz 2011, p. 2.
 
195
Huntington 1968; Ezrow and Frantz 2011, p. 2.
 
196
Ibid.
 
197
Ibid.
 
198
Ibid.
 
199
Arendt 1973; Ezrow and Frantz 2011, p. 3.
 
200
Linz 2000; Ezrow and Frantz 2011, p. 4.
 
201
Schwartz 2006, pp. 175–176.
 
202
Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 2.
 
203
Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 1.
 
204
“Thus, aside from more than 40 amendments inserted into the text of the constitutional document, there exist approximately 600 constitutional provisions ‘floating’ outside the Constitution”. In: Hausmaninger 1998, p. 18.
 
205
Kelsen’s Constitution was amended in 1929 to strengthen the presidential powers.
 
206
Zurcher 1934, p. 664.
 
207
Hausmaninger 1998, p. 8.
 
208
Liebhart et al. 1991, pp. 375–382.
 
209
Hausmaninger 1998, p. 9.
 
210
Ibid.
 
211
Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 15.
 
212
Liebhart et al. 1991.
 
213
Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 32.
 
214
Walter et al, Bundesverfassungsrecht, n 53, 88f. In: Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 33.
 
215
Gampl 1971; Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 33.
 
216
Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 33.
 
217
Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 33.
 
218
Liebhart et al. 1991.
 
219
Cf VfSlg 9648/1983. In: Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 49.
 
220
Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 15.
 
221
Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 58.
 
222
For instance, “[b]y law all employees (civil servants are the exception) are members of the Chamber of Labour and are obliged to pay fees which are deducted from their wages by the employer and transferred to the chamber.” In: Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 56.
 
223
Schwartz 2006, pp. 175–176.
 
224
The Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and the People’s Party (ÖVP).
 
225
Besides the law on the general rights of citizens, rights relevant for this research could be found in Article 90 of the Constitution, which guarantees principles of criminal procedure, the 1988 federal constitutional law on personal freedom and the Political Parties Act of 1975.
 
226
See the English version of the Austrian Constitution at https://​www.​servat.​unibe.​ch/​icl/​au00000_​.​html. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
227
VfSlg 15373/1988. In: Stelzer et al. 2011, p. 210.
 
228
See more information about Strasse’s corruption affair at https://​www.​bbc.​com/​news/​world-europe-21017914. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
229
See the reasoning of the Supreme Court of Austria in Ernst Strasser’s case, available in German at https://​www.​ris.​bka.​gv.​at/​Dokument.​wxe?​Abfrage=​Justiz&​Dokumentnummer=​JJT_​20141013_​OGH0002_​0170OS00030_​14M0000_​000. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
230
Urteil Gegen Susanne Winter Bestätigt. https://​stmv1.​orf.​at/​stories/​369117. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
231
Former Minister Now a Prison Librarian, 18 November 2014. https://​www.​thelocal.​at/​20141118/​former-minister-now-a-prison-librarian. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
232
See ECtHR, Streletz, Kessler and Krenz v. Germany, 22 March 2001, Case Nos. 34044/96, 35532/97 and 44801/98 (Streletz, Kessler and Krenz 2001), paras 71–73. https://​hudoc.​echr.​coe.​int/​app/​conversion/​pdf/​?​library=​ECHR&​id=​001-59353&​filename=​001-59353.​pdf. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
233
In particular, Article 7 § 1 of the Convention…provides: “No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence under national or international law at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the criminal offence was committed.” See para 46 of the ECtHR’s judgment in Streletz, Kessler and Krenz 2001.
 
234
See Streletz, Kessler and Krenz 2001, above n 232 para 87.
 
235
See Streletz, Kessler and Krenz 2001, above n 232, para 67.
 
236
Streletz, Kessler and Krenz 2001, the Concurring Opinion by Judge Zupančič.
 
237
Streletz, Kessler and Krenz 2001, above n 232, p. 13.
 
238
Streletz, Kessler and Krenz 2001, above n 232.
 
239
Streletz, Kessler and Krenz 2001, above n 232.
 
240
Kommers and Miller 2012, p. 57.
 
241
Lüth Case, 7 BVerfGE 198, 205 (1958). See also Annette Guckelberger, “Die Drittwirkung der Grundrechte,” Juristische Schulung 12 (2003): 1151–57; and Christoph Möllers, “Wandel der Grundrechtsjudikatur: Eine Analyse der Rechtsprechung des Ersten Senats des BVerfG,“Neue Juristische Wochenschrift” 28 (2005): 1973–79.” In: Kommers and Miller 2012, p. 57.
 
242
Kommers and Miller 2012, p. 58.
 
243
Heun et al. 2011, p. 6.
 
244
Thiel 2009, p. 112.
 
245
The principle of militant democracy is also connected with Article 20 (right to resist—Section 4), Article 79 (Ewigkeitsklausel—Section 3), Article 33 (principles of public service—Section 5) and other constitutional and sub-constitutional provisions.
 
246
Fromme speaks of an ‘ageing process’ and an ‘erosion’ of the militant democracy. In: Thiel 2009, p. 139.
 
247
Kommers and Miller 2012, p. 18.
 
248
Heun et al. 2011, p. 7.
 
249
Ibid., p. 7.
 
250
See the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, available in English at https://​www.​gesetze-im-internet.​de/​englisch_​gg/​. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
251
Krey and Stenger 2008, p. 5.
 
252
Krey 2002, pp. 41–99.
 
253
Kommers and Miller 2012, p. 217.
 
254
Kommers and Miller 2012, p. 218.
 
255
Heun et al. 2011, p. 119.
 
256
The Basic Law of Germany at https://​www.​gesetze-im-internet.​de/​englisch_​gg/​. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
257
Ibid.
 
258
Heun et al. 2011, p. 119.
 
259
See more information about Wulff’s trial at https://​www.​bbc.​com/​news/​world-europe-26365262. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
260
Vasagar 2014.
 
261
Corcoran and Hall 2015.
 
262
Macias 2015.
 
263
Lalpychak 1991.
 
264
See the chronology of the Orange Revolution by Deutsche Welle. https://​www.​dw.​de/​chronology-of-the-orange-revolution/​a-2804808. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
265
See the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Report on Presidential Election, 31 October, 21 November and 26 December 2004, which showed the scale of electoral fraud during the 2004 presidential campaign. https://​www.​osce.​org/​odihr/​elections/​ukraine/​14674. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
266
Bredies et al. 2007, pp. 121–122.
 
267
Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 231.
 
268
Ibid., p. 231.
 
269
Ibid., p. 233.
 
270
In the 2010 presidential elections Yulia Tymoshenko received the support of 45.47% of the voters (11,593,357 votes), while Yanukovytch received 48.95% (12,480,335 votes), see the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Report. www.​osce.​org/​odihr/​elections/​ukraine/​67844. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
271
Mishina 2014.
 
272
Ibid.
 
273
Malkin and Raziye 2015.
 
274
Informal institutions are ‘socially shared rules, usually unwritten, that are created, communicated, and enforced outside of officially sanctioned channels’ and formal institutions are ‘rules and procedures that are created, communicated, and enforced through channels widely accepted as official’. Helmke and Levitsky 2004; Hale 2011; Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 219.
 
275
Hale 2011; Ginsburg and Simpser 2013, p. 219.
 
276
Ibid.
 
277
Ibid.
 
278
According to Article 80, para 3, “People’s Deputies of Ukraine shall not be held criminally liable, detained or arrested without the consent of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.” The English version of the Ukrainian Constitution: https://​www.​refworld.​org/​cgi-bin/​texis/​vtx/​rwmain/​opendocpdf.​pdf?​reldoc=​y&​docid=​5d63a1ed4. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
280
Article 129 of the Constitution.
 
281
Article 126 of the Constitution says that “a judge shall not be detained or arrested without the consent of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, until a verdict of guilty is rendered by a court”. The English version of the Ukrainian Constitution: https://​www.​refworld.​org/​cgi-bin/​texis/​vtx/​rwmain/​opendocpdf.​pdf?​reldoc=​y&​docid=​5d63a1ed4. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
282
Article 126 of the Constitution.
 
283
The Criminal Code of Procedure available in Ukrainian at https://​zakon0.​rada.​gov.​ua/​laws/​show/​4651-17. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
284
See the new Code of Criminal Procedure, a Ukrainian version is available at https://​zakon4.​rada.​gov.​ua/​laws/​show/​4651-17. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
285
See recommendations provided by the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission) to Ukraine, available at https://​www.​venice.​coe.​int/​webforms/​documents/​?​country=​47&​year=​all. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
286
See the Danish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Legal Monitoring in Ukraine II, available at https://​khpg.​org/​en/​index.​php?​id=​1313446474. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
287
See the European Parliament resolution on Ukraine d.d. 9 June 2011, available at https://​www.​europarl.​europa.​eu/​document/​activities/​cont/​201106/​20110620ATT21953​/​20110620ATT21953​EN.​pdf. Accessed 25 December 2020. In particular, criminal cases were opened against the following members of Tymoshenko’s government: Mr. Didenko former First Deputy Chairman of the state oil and gas company “Naftogaz”, Mr. Filipchuk, the former Environment Minister, Ms. Gritsoun, the first deputy chairman of the Treasury, Mr. Ivashchenko, the Acting Minister of Defense, Mr. Korniychuk, First Deputy Minister of Justice, Ms. Kushnir, deputy chief accountant «Naftogaz», Mr. Lutsenko, the former Interior Minister, Mr. Makarenko and the former Head of the State Customs Administration of Ukraine.
 
288
Korniychuk v. Ukraine’ (no. 10042/11), ‘Ivashchenko v. Ukraine’ (no. 41303/11) and ‘Makarenko v. Ukraine’ (no. 622/11).
 
289
See RFE/RL, “Ukraine’s Jailed Former Interior Minister Sentenced In Second Case,” RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, August 17, 2012, sec. Ukraine. https://​www.​rferl.​org/​content/​ukraine-lutsenko/​24679808.​html. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
290
Polityuk and Balmforth 2011.
 
291
See ECtHR, ‘Tymoshenko v Ukraine’, 30 April 2013, Case No.49872/11; ECtHR, ‘Lutsenko v Ukraine’, 3 July 2012, Case No.6492/11. Furthermore, the Government of Ukraine later recognized that Ms. Tymoshenko’s imprisonment was politically motivated.
 
292
See Haman Rights Watch Background Information “Republic of Belarus”, available at https://​www.​hrw.​org/​reports/​1997/​belarus/​Belarus-03.​htm. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
293
According to Alex Danilovich, while only Russia and some other former Soviet republics recognized the referendum, “[t]he French Embassy on Minsk, for instance, circulated a statement on behalf of the EU saying the 20th July was the last day of Lukashenka’s legitimate mandate.” In: Danilovich 2006.
 
294
See Human Rights Watch Background Information “Republic of Belarus”, available at https://​www.​hrw.​org/​reports/​1997/​belarus/​Belarus-03.​htm. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
295
For instance, “[l]imitations on candidates’ ability to campaign were particularly egregious in light of the massive, nationwide, and apparently State-funded campaign in support of a “yes” vote on the referendum.” See the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Report on Parliamentary Elections of 17 October 2004. https://​www.​osce.​org/​odihr/​elections/​belarus/​38658?​download=​true. Accessed 25 December 2020. See also the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) Opinion no. 314/2004 on the Referendum of 17 October 2004 in Belarus Adopted by the Venice Commission at its 60th Plenary Session (Venice, 8-9 October 2004). https://​www.​venice.​coe.​int/​webforms/​documents/​default.​aspx?​pdffile=​CDL-AD(2004)029-e. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
296
See the statement made President Alexander Lukashenka during his press conference on 17 October 2014, available in English: https://​eng.​belta.​by/​president/​view/​lukashenko-no-reasons-not-to-run-for-the-presidential-office-if-i-stay-healthy-7516-2014. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
297
See the English version of the Constitution of Belarus: https://​law.​by/​main.​aspx?​guid=​3871&​p0=​V19402875e. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
298
Ibid.
 
299
Ibid.
 
300
Ibid.
 
301
Ibid.
 
302
See the Human Rights Watch UPR Submission to UNHRC on the situation with human rights violations in Belarus, 13 April 2015: https://​www.​hrw.​org/​news/​2015/​04/​13/​human-rights-watch-upr-submission-unhrc-belarus. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
303
Vadzim Smok. “Political Prisoners – No Longer a Sticking Point in Belarus-EU Relations?” Belarus Digest: News and Analytics on Belarusian Politics, Economy, Human Rights and More, 10 June 2015. https://​belarusdigest.​com/​story/​political-prisoners-no-longer-a-sticking-point-in-belarus-eu-relations/​. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
304
See Mikalai Statkevich’s profile on the website founded by the US NGO “Freedom Now” to support prisoners of conscience: https://​www.​freedom-now.​org/​campaign/​cases-in-belarus/​ (link no longer active).
 
305
Fletcher 2014.
 
306
Deutsche Welle 2015.
 
307
See the Statement by the Amnesty International on Sannikov’s case ‘Oppositioneller gefoltert’, available in German: https://​www.​amnesty.​de/​urgent-action/​ua-264-2010-1/​oppositioneller-gefoltert?​destination=​node%2F5309. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
308
See the OSCE/ODHIR Election Observation Mission Final Report, 4, (Feb. 22, 2011), the Office for Democratic Inst. and Human Rights, Org. for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Republic of Belarus Presidential Election, 19 December 2010. https://​www.​osce.​org/​odihr/​elections/​75713. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
309
Petition To: United Nations Working Group On Arbitrary Detention, Human Rights Council United Nations General Assembly, In the Matter of Andrei Sannikov, Citizen of Belarus v. Government of Belarus, available at https://​www.​freedom-now.​org/​wp-content/​uploads/​2011/​11/​Petition-re-Andrei-Sannikov-15.​09.​11.​pdf (link no longer active).
 
310
See a statement made by Miklós Haraszti, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Belarus: UN expert hails release of political opponents, points to further steps ahead of presidential polls. https://​www.​ohchr.​org/​en/​NewsEvents/​Pages/​DisplayNews.​aspx?​NewsID=​16347&​LangID=​E. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
311
See the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Submitted in Accordance with the Commission Resolution 2000/42, 8 February 2001 (E/CN.4/2001/65/Add.1), Addendum: Report on the Mission to Belarus. https://​www.​refworld.​org/​docid/​45377abb0.​html. Accessed 25 December 2020.
 
312
Lukashuk 1998, p. 46.
 
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Titel
Phenomenon of Politically Motivated Justice and Its Relevance for the Rule of Law in the Former USSR
verfasst von
Artem Galushko
Copyright-Jahr
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-459-4_1

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