The Left Opposition Party was also banned.
The Eighth Court of Appeal of Lviv ruled on June 16 ban the Sharia Party, led by suspected pro-Russian blogger Anatoly Sharia . The property of this political force should be transferred to the state, although the court's decision can still be appealed in the Supreme Court, reports “Honest”
“We do not know anything about the arguments of the Ministry of Justice and the Security Service of Ukraine regarding the grounds for banning the party – journalists were not allowed to attend the meeting, although yesterday the chairwoman in another case allowed us to be present. We learned about the party's ban from the words of a court representative who simply went out to announce the outcome of the trial. According to the representative of the Ministry of Justice, the party's representatives were supposed to be at the meeting via video link, but they did not show up, “said Ihor Feshchenko, an analyst with the Chesno movement.
an attempt by the Ministry of Justice to ban this pro-Russian party, as the SBU demanded for the first time to ban the Sharia Party in the Kyiv District Administrative Court a year ago.
Also today, the court also banned the Left Opposition party. >, which appeared in 2015 after the liquidation of the CPU.
Recall in February 2021 SBU declared suspicion under the article on treason and violation of the equality of citizens by the leader of the political force of the same name Anatoliy Sharia. On May 4, 2022, Spanish law enforcement detained Sharia, and on May 5, a local court released a pro-Russian blogger on bail. The suspect should be extradited to Ukraine , but Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova suggested that the procedure could be delayed for a year.
Shariy himself fled Ukraine in 2012 from criminal prosecution, and in 2014 began blog on YouTube. The canal was closed in March 2022 after the start of a full-scale war. Shariy was noted for actively “debunking fakes” in the Ukrainian media, although he was repeatedly caught lying and manipulating.
In the 2019 presidential election, Shariy supported the candidate from Akhmetov's wing of the “Opposition Bloc” Oleksandr Vilkul.
According to the results of the 2019 parliamentary elections, the Sharia Party received 2.2% and ranked 10th out of 22 parties. It won 52 seats in the 2020 local elections, mostly in the east and south of the country.
