MH17: Court ruling due on Dutch case against Russia
By Anna Holligan in The Hague and Laura Gozzi in London
BBC News
The European Court of Human Rights is set to announce whether it will hear a Dutch case against Russia over the downing of flight MH17 in 2014.
All 298 people on the Malaysia Airlines flight were killed when it was shot down by a Russian-made missile fired by Moscow-backed Ukrainian separatists.
The Dutch government argues that Russian disinformation about Moscow's role in the incident is a violation of the relatives' human rights.
Russia denies the allegations.
The decision will be read out at 14:30 local time (13:30 GMT).
The Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit by a surface-to-air missile in July 2014 during a conflict between pro-Russia rebels and Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region of Ukraine.
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