On June 21, ‘112 Ukraine’ TV-channel has directed ‘first complaint in the European Court of Human Rights’, which is ‘connected with National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting sanctions, including for the live broadcast of the ‘Shuster LIVE’ program, when the regulator of sanctions didn’t apply to another broadcaster for the same content’.

‘It’s first sanctions of National Council for TV and they became the beginning of the procedure of depriving broadcasting licence of ‘112 Ukraine’ TV-channel. The District Administrative Court of Kyiv is considering the relevant case on the lawsuit of the National Council demanding the cancellation of the license of the television channel. The TV channel applied to the ECHR for the protection of the rights to exist as an external and independent body after the exhaustion of domestic remedies within only one of 27 judicial proceedings in Ukraine’, ‘112 Ukraine’ reports.

The head of TV-channel’s legal service Vasily Smetana claimed: “The violation of the Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in relation to the TV channel became the grounds for applying to the ECHR. Namely, the right to a fair and impartial court was violated, the right to transmit information without interference of public authorities, as well as political discrimination’.