On 17 October 2019, the European Court of Human Rights, considering joint cases No. 58812/15, 53217/16, 59099/16, 23231/18 and 47749/18, issued a decision recognizing doubts about the democratic character of the purposes pursued by the Law of Ukraine No. 1682-VII "On Cleaning up the Government" of 16.09.2014.
In the POLYAKH AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE case, the Court pointed out that the parties didn't deny that the implementation of the Law had caused interference with the applicants' rights provided Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in relation to the application of the measures provided for in the Law.
Moreover, in a number of cases, the Court found that the lustration measures affected the applicants' rights to respect for their private life, as they concerned their reputation and/or professional prospects. The Court noted that there were certain typical aspects of each individual's private life that could be violated by dismissal, demotion, refusal of employment or other similar disadvantageous measures that had arisen when applying the Law to applicants.
Based on the results of the abovementioned case POLYAKH AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE ECHR concluded that Ukraine violated the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, in particular, Articles 6 and 8, and obliged Ukraine to pay the appropriate amount of compensation to the applicants.
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