By Mike Corder
The Associated Press
Published July 5, 2023 7:43 am
Upgraded July 5, 2023 11:16 am
Canadian households who lost liked ones on flight PS752 look for justice from The Hague
The United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine released a case versus Iran at the United Nations' greatest court Wednesday over the downing in 2020 of a Ukrainian traveler jet and the deaths of all 176 guests and team.
The 4 nations desire the International Court of Justice to rule that Iran unlawfully shot down the Ukraine International Airlines airplane and to buy Tehran to say sorry and pay settlement to the households of the victims.
Flight PS752 was taking a trip from Tehran to Kyiv on Jan. 8, 2020 when it was shot down right after departure. Individuals eliminated consisted of nationals and citizens of Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, in addition to Afghanistan and Iran. Their ages varied from one year to 74 years of ages.
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“Today's legal action shows our undeviating dedication to attaining openness, justice and responsibility for the households of the victims,” the nations stated in a joint declaration Wednesday. They stated they submitted the case after Iran stopped working to react to a December ask for arbitration.
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Following 3 days of rejections in In January 2020, Iran stated its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard wrongly downed the Ukrainian aircraft with 2 surface-to-air rockets. Iranian authorities blamed an air defense operator who they stated misinterpreted the Boeing 737-800 for an American cruise rocket.
An Iranian court this year sentenced an air defense leader supposedly accountable for the downing to 13 years jail time, according to the nation's main judiciary news outlet.
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The nations that submitted the case with the world court in The Hague called the prosecution “a sham and nontransparent trial.”
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According to the court filing released Wednesday, the U.K., Canada, Sweden and Ukraine argue that Iran “stopped working to take all practicable procedures to avoid the illegal and deliberate commission of an offense” and “stopped working to perform an objective, transparent, and reasonable criminal examination and prosecution constant with worldwide law.”
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The filing declares that Iran kept or ruined proof, blamed other nations and low level Revolutionary Guard workers, “threatened and bugged the households of the victims looking for justice” and stopped working to report information of the event to the International Civil Aviation Organization.
The downing occurred on the exact same day Iran released a ballistic rocket attack on U.S. soldiers in Iraq in retaliation for an American drone strike that eliminated a leading Iranian general.
Recently, Iran submitted a case versus Canada connected to the downing, implicating the North American country of flouting state resistance in permitting loved ones of terrorism victims to look for reparations from the Islamic Republic.
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