On 30 March, the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights met with the Mayor of Mariupol and representatives of the Mariupol City Council on the margins of their participation in the 50th Session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.
The delegation provided information on the “Mariupol Justice” project in the context of the supervision of the landmark inter-State judgment Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia. In its judgment, the Court found serious and systemic human rights violations of the right to life, the prohibition of torture and inhuman treatment, the right to respect for private and family life, and the right to respect for property, having regard notably to the atrocities committed by the Russian forces in Mariupol. Furthermore, in its decisions adopted in December 2025, the Committee of Ministers deplored in the strongest possible terms Russia’s complete disregard for the lives and well-being of civilians living in heavily targeted cities and cities under siege.
Although the Russian Federation ceased to be a High Contracting Party to the Convention on 16 September 2022, it remains bound by obligations under the Convention, including to implement the judgments of the Court, in accordance with Article 58 of the Convention, and the Committee of Ministers continues to supervise the execution of the judgments and friendly settlements concerned.
DEJ website on the execution of Russian cases
Thematic factsheet on Local and regional authorities
