FIFTH SECTIONCASE OF AZOVTSEVA v. UKRAINE(Application no. 64932/12)      JUDGMENT STRASBOURG14 October 2021 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision.In the case of Azovtseva v. Ukraine,The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of: Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, President, Jovan Ilievski, Mattias Guyomar, judges,and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,Having deliberated in private on 23 September 2021,Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:PROCEDURE1. The case originated in an application against Ukraine lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) on 7 April 2013.2. The Ukrainian Government (“the Government”) were given notice of the application.THE FACTS3. The applicant’s details and information relevant to the application are set out in the appended table.4. The applicant complained of the ineffective investigation into the death of her husband, who died in a road traffic accident.THE LAWALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 2 § 1 of the Convention5. The applicant complained of the ineffective investigation into the death of her husband, who died in a road traffic accident. She relied on Article 6 § 1 of the Convention.6. The Court, which is master of the characterisation to be given in law to the facts of the case, finds that the complaints at issue fall to be examined under Article 2 of the Convention (see Igor Shevchenko v. Ukraine, no. 22737/04, § 38, 12 January 2012). This provision, in so far as relevant, reads as follows:Article 2 § 1“1. Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law.”7.

Article of the Convention at issue: Article 2
Outcome: violation