Courts in Austria have declared inadmissible extradition requests from Ukrainian law enforcement authorities in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Ministry of Justice in Vienna has been talking about three cases since February 24, 2022. Recently, the Vienna Regional Court (LG) justified the refusal to extradite an entrepreneur to Ukraine with the war, a spokeswoman for the court confirmed.
The negative decisions were essentially based on the fact that, according to the findings of the Austrian courts, a threat to life and limb in Ukraine’s prisons due to the war situation cannot be ruled out, a spokeswoman for the Austrian Ministry of Justice said. Thursday to the APA. Therefore, there is a risk that Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) will be violated, she explained.
Entrepreneur is not extradited
Citing Article 3, which prohibits inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the Vienna Regional Court recently rejected the extradition of entrepreneur Oleh B. to his home country, which was requested in connection with criminal economic crimes. Extraditions to areas where a large number of citizens have fallen victim to an extreme situation such as war and are still victims would, according to the court, violate the European Convention on Human Rights, a spokeswoman for the court said. “Article three basically binds us – there is also a clear judiciary and not much room for interpretation,” she said.
However, Ukrainian interlocutors of the APA are critical of this Austrian position. The fact that since last year there have been repeated extradition requests from Ukraine also makes it clear that, despite the war, the law enforcement authorities there still consider extradition to Ukraine possible. However, support for this view in Kiev also comes from Lithuania, which itself ratified the European Convention on Human Rights in 1995. After years of extradition proceedings, the Baltic state extradited an ex-manager of a Ukrainian state-owned company to Ukraine on Monday. .
Source: Krone
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