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The monitoring mission of the Information and Analytical Center of the International Society for Human Rights (IAC ISHR) has prepared the final report for 2024 “Observance of the right to a fair trial in Ukraine.” This was announced by the coordinator of the IAC ISHR monitoring mission, Anastasia Alekseeva, during the VII International Criminal Law Forum, which took place on February 11 in Kyiv. With this document, the organization resumed the annual monitoring report on the observance of the right to a fair trial in Ukraine, which it has been issuing since 2017 and which was suspended in 2022 due to full-scale hostilities. The conclusions of human rights defenders are based on the results of monitoring 90 court hearings in 2024, in which 193 human rights violations were recorded. Traditionally, the report consists of three parts: the first part - a review of negative trends identified in the field of justice, the second part - an analysis of the collected statistical data and the third part - reports on monitoring court hearings, which became the source of the preparation of the report itself.

MAIN CHALLENGES: JUSTICE UNDER PRESSURE

The judicial system is an instrument that should protect human rights. However, this year, experts from the IAC ISHR monitoring mission identified alarming trends, including: violations of the right to defense, failure to comply with the principle of equality and adversarial proceedings, bias of judges, violations of the right to access to justice, etc.

Positive trends were also identified - cases of incorrect use and/or ignoring the practice of the ECHR, inclusion of “doubtful” evidence in the evidence base have significantly decreased. In 11% of hearings, no violations were identified.