Court binds Ukraine to pay 100,000 euros to Gongadze widow
KIEV, November 9 -- The widow of Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze has won the case in the European Court of Human Rights, say a court press release distributed in Kiev
The lawsuit filed by Miroslava Gongadze on September 16, 2002, accused the Ukrainian authorities of failure to take sufficient measures for the protection of the journalist and the investigation of his death. The court compelled the Ukrainian authorities to pay 100,000 euros to the widow in compensation for damages.
"By filing this lawsuit, I wanted to urge the Ukrainian authorities to fully investigate my husband?s murder and punish the organizers and perpetrators of this crime who hampered the appropriate investigation with their deliberate actions or criminal inertia," said the widow, who currently lives and works in the United States.
Gongadze, editor in chief of the Ukrainska Pravda Internet edition, disappeared in September 2000
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