The International Advisory Panel, first suggested by the Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland to oversee the investigations into the violent incidents which took place in Ukraine from November 30, 2013, to February 21, 2014, met all the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights.
The Panel operates in accordance with its mandate.
Late last year the Ukrainian capital was engulfed in protests and violence, with hundreds of thousands out on the streets, demanding the government's resignation.
The old administration was toppled, but the escalation of the political crisis left the country bitterly divided, with a bloody armed conflict flaring up shortly in the country’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
