The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Russia committed rights violations in Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow occupied and annexed in violation of international law in 2014. Russia violated the right to life, the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment, and freedom of expression and assembly, the court said, among other abuses. The ruling means the judges in Strasbourg have sided with Ukraine, which had filed a complaint with the court alleging a “pattern of persecution” of non-Russians in Crimea. Ukraine’s allegations included unlawful detentions, ill-treatmen…