{"id":1699,"date":"2020-03-17T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcstaging.co.uk\/ehrac\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2021-03-12T14:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:44:55","slug":"parents-accuse-ukraine-of-negligence-after-10-year-old-sons-death","status":"publish","type":[30],"link":"http:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/en_gb\/parents-accuse-ukraine-of-negligence-after-10-year-old-sons-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents accuse Ukraine of negligence after 10-year-old son\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_6adaddadac054\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row standard_section \"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap\"><div class=\"row-bg\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row-bg-overlay\" ><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-t-w-inherits=\"default\" data-bg-cover=\"\" data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-hover-bg=\"\" data-hover-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" ><div class=\"column-bg-overlay-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\"><div class=\"column-bg-overlay\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\r\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t<p>On 20 January 2020, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/eng?i=001-201315\">European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) required Ukraine to respond to a case concerning the death of a 10-year-old boy<\/a>\u00a0on a railway track in the city of Irpin, which the boy\u2019s parents argue resulted from the negligence of the state railway authorities. EHRAC is representing Nataliya and Sergiy Zayets, the mother and father of Sergiy Zayets.<\/p>\n<p>The applicants complain, under Article 2 (right to life) of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), that an effective investigation has not been carried out in relation to their son\u2019s death, and that the domestic authorities failed to take appropriate steps to protect his life. The Court has asked the Ukrainian Government to respond to these claims by 18 May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>On 22 November 2016, Sergiy Zayets was struck by a train whilst crossing the railway at the informal crossing point near his school in the Ukrainian city of Irpin. He was just 10 years old. The police immediately launched an investigation into his death and ordered a forensic medical examination. An internal inquiry by the Kyiv Railway Directorate initially found that the accident had occurred as a result of the violation of road traffic safety rules by the boy, who, it claimed, suddenly appeared on the railway track.<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s father Sergiy Zayets has repeatedly complained to prosecutors regarding the inactivity of the investigative authorities, who have failed to adequately investigate his son\u2019s death. On 9 February 2017, he requested that a criminal investigation be conducted into the neglect of official duty by the head of Irpin Railway Station as regards the safety of the railway lines in the city. The unofficial crossing point where his son was killed had been used by locals for many years, and was completely open and unfenced. A paved track led to it, and there was a pedestrian zebra crossing over the street parallel to the track. To date, no investigative actions have been carried out with regards to Sergiy Zayets\u2019 criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Sergiy Zayets is a human rights lawyer, formerly with Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rchr.org.ua\/\">Regional Center for Human Rights (RCHR)<\/a>, who has long been one of EHRAC\u2019s closest working partners. The case concerning his son\u2019s death has been communicated along with three other cases submitted by the relatives of individuals who have been killed in Ukraine and who all allege that the State authorities did not effectively investigate their deaths.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 20 January 2020, the\u00a0European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) required Ukraine to respond to a case concerning the death of a 10-year-old boy\u00a0on a railway track in the city...","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"country":[37],"theme":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorised","country-ukraine","type-case-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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