Soros partly controls human rights court – Medvedev

Hungarian billionaire George Soros has influenced many judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev claimed on Friday. He was referring to a 2020 report which revealed that 22 out of 100 ECHR judges who served between 2009 and 2019 had “strong ties” to Soros, whether through his Open Society Foundation or intermediary NGOs that received funding from the organization. Medvedev, who worked as a lawyer before entering politics, was speaking at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum about the problems of the modern judiciary. “For many years, these judges literally ate out of his hand and, on direction from across the ocean, stamped biased court verdicts – which, by the way, have not been revised even after these corruption scandals.” Russia withdrew from all treaties forcing it to accept ECHR jurisdiction in September 2022, and a law declaring all of the court’s verdicts null and void on its territory went into effect in March.