In Ukraine, the Communist Party was banned twice.

On July 5, 2022, the 8th Administrative Court of Appeal in the city of Lviv banned the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU).

The KPU became the 14th political party in Ukraine banned by the court in Lviv, starting from June 8, 2022: https://t.me/repressionoftheleft/983.

ALL leftist parties are banned in Ukraine.

Administrative courts in the city of Kyiv banned the activities of the KPU back in 2015 (the court of first instance) and May 16, 2022 (the court of appeal): https://t.me/repressionoftheleft/787.

But on May 14, 2022, Zelensky signed a new law on the prohibition of political parties, which greatly simplifies the procedure for the ban and transfers the right to ban political parties in Ukraine to the hands of the court in Lviv: https://t.me/repressionoftheleft/382.

Therefore, the CPU was banned again, already under a new law,

On March 3, 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine arrested the communists Alexander and Mikhail Kononovich.

Now in Kyiv there is a trial of the brothers Kononovich. They are accused of "acting to seize power": https://t.me/repressionoftheleft/1037.

Banned parties can appeal to the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

But in the conditions of the "patriotic" and militaristic hysteria that now reigns in Ukraine, and in the conditions of the complete dependence of the courts on the Office of the President, there is no chance that the Supreme Court will cancel the decision of the Lviv court.

Also, on March 4, 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided not to consider any lawsuits of citizens about the violation of their rights in Ukraine: https://ua.interfax.com.ua/news/general/806986-amp.html

The ECHR explained this decision by saying that the Kiev government should not be distracted from more important matters than the rights of Ukrainians.

The decision of the ECtHR will be valid indefinitely.

So Ukrainians have no hopes to restore their right to express communist, socialist or leftist views with the help of European justice.