The ECHR has delivered its advisory opinion in reply to a request submitted by the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

The request concerned a dispute pending before Ukraine’s Supreme Court between a monastery of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a former nun over her right to live in a convent owned by the monastery. She left the convent in 2017 in a context of conflict within the religious community.

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