The United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine launched a case against Iran at the United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday over the downing in 2020 of a Ukrainian passenger jet and the deaths of all 176 passengers and crew.
The four countries want the International Court of Justice to rule that Iran illegally shot down the Ukraine International Airlines plane and to order Tehran to apologize and pay compensation to the families of the victims.
Flight PS752 was travelling from Tehran to Kyiv on Jan. 8, 2020, when it was shot down soon after takeoff. There were 55 Canadian citizens and 30