The Supreme Court ruled that the sanctions against the traitorous metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church—Moscow Patriarchate—were lawful
The Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court upheld the legality of imposing personal sanctions on Metropolitan Joseph of Romny and Buryn, the head of the Romny Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).
The court recognized as lawful the restrictions imposed by decrees of the President of Ukraine due to the clergyman’s anti-Ukrainian activities. The judges agreed with the conclusions of the Administrative Court of Cassation regarding the legality of the sanctions, since the plaintiff had been justifying the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine and publicly glorifying the occupiers.
In addition, the judges took into account the fact that the metropolitan had endorsed the actions of the Russian Federation’s armed forces and had taken steps that posed a real threat of religious schism in society. The Grand Chamber fully dismissed the claim filed by the representative of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, while also further clarifying and expanding the reasoning section of the decision in accordance with the standards for judicial review of this category of cases.
This was reported by the Supreme Court on its Telegram channel.
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