On 2 June 2022, the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the Supreme Court, the Office of the Prosecutor General, and the Prosecutor’s Training Centre of Ukraine organised an online roundtable on the admissibility of open-source information and electronic evidence in the national criminal proceedings concerning gross human rights violations resulting from the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The event brought together all key national criminal justice actors who work with open-source electronic evidence during investigation and prosecution of the gross human rights violations, including judges of the Criminal Court of Cassation of the Supreme Court and courts of general jurisdiction, prosecutors of the War Crimes Department of the Office of the Prosecutor General and regional prosecutor’s offices, representatives of the Prosecutors’ Training Centre of Ukraine, the National Police of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, international and national experts. The participants discussed the national legal framework and practice as well as the applicable international standards and best practices regarding open-source information and electronic evidence.

The roundtable was organised within the framework of the Council of Europe Project “Human Rights Compliant Criminal Justice System in Ukraine,” which is part of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine 2018-2022, in cooperation with the Council of Europe Cybercrime Programme Office.