OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Desir on Saturday expressed serious dismay that a four-year suspended sentence in the case of the murder of journalist Vyacheslav Veremyi in Kyiv leads to impunity.
Ukraine's Higher Council of Justice has virtually completed the consideration of disciplinary proceedings under the law on restoring confidence in the judiciary, which provides the vetting of judges who made decisions with obvious signs of arbitrariness during Maidan events late in 2013 – early in 2014, according to lawyer Roman Maselko, a member of the Public Integrity Council at the Higher Qualification Commission of Judges.