UK among countries taking Iran to court over 2020 Ukrainian jet horror

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Those killed included nationals and residents of Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the UK, as well as Afghanistan and Iran.
43% : Following three days of denials in January 2020, Iran said its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard mistakenly downed the Ukrainian plane with two surface-to-air missiles.
39% : Last week, Iran filed a case against Canada linked to the downing, accusing the country of flouting state immunity in allowing relatives of terrorism victims to seek reparations from the Islamic Republic.
36% : They said they filed the case after Iran failed to respond to a December request for arbitration.
35% : The UK, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine have launched a case against Iran at the United Nations' highest court over the downing in 2020 of a Ukrainian passenger jet and the deaths of all 176 passengers and crew.
35% : The filing alleges that Iran withheld or destroyed evidence, blamed other countries and low level Revolutionary Guard personnel, "threatened and harassed the families of the victims seeking justice" and failed to report details of the incident to the International Civil Aviation Organisation.
35% : The downing happened on the same day Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on US troops in Iraq in retaliation for an American drone strike that killed a top Iranian general.
34% : The countries want the International Court of Justice to rule that Iran illegally shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752.
32% : According to the court filing published on Wednesday, the UK, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine argue that Iran "failed to take all practicable measures to prevent the unlawful and intentional commission of an offence" and "failed to conduct an impartial, transparent and fair criminal investigation and prosecution consistent with international law".
26% : The countries want the International Court of Justice to rule that Iran illegally shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 on January 8 2020, and to order Tehran to apologise and pay compensation to the families of the victims.

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