The European Court of Human Rights (E) has unanimously ruled to award a group of Roma people – victims of a 2002 hate attack – more than $200,000 in damages which will be paid by the Ukrainian government.
The attack took place on September 9, 2002, when a "mob of hundreds of people" attacked Roma homes in the village of Petrivka in Ukraine's Odessa region, according to a release by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), which has handled the case since 2008.
The Council of Europe estimates there are nearly 260,000 Roma people in Ukraine, which has a population of around 48.5 million.
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