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Balakliya
Coverage of Balakliya in the Nexus archive.
- Rights court warns Ukraine wartime fears aren’t enough to keep suspects behind bars
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Ukraine cannot detain national security suspects solely due to wartime fears, citing insufficient justification for the pretrial detention of Anatoliy Derevyanko and Yuliya Tarasova. The court emphasized Ukrainian judges must individually assess risks like flight or witness tampering, rejecting generalized assertions used to justify custody.