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Austrian architect Wolfgang Lassy says he hasn't been able to get a good night's restfor years, with theCatholic Church wakinghim up every 15 minutes.

That's because forhundreds of years, the church bells of Linzwere allowed to chime at night every quarter of an hour, disrupting many residents' sleep. Now, Lassy is seeking to endthecenturies-old practice. The Austrian has sued the Catholic Church in Linz and has even expressedhis deep discontentin a letter to Pope Francis. So far, he hasn't heard back from the Holy See.

"Lassy has been unable to sleep at night for years because the church bells chimed exactly 222 times every night with a volume of 75 decibels," Lassy's lawyer, Wolfgang List, told The Washington Post on Thursday. His clientlives only about 250 feetaway from the Mariendom cathedral, which houses the bells.

According to his lawyer, Lassy had tried to resolve the problem for two years before he decided to take his concerns to court last December. When it became clear that the local church representatives would not simply stop the bells without a holy or judicial order to do so, Lassy sent a letter to the pope Feb. 4.

Saying that a lawsuit was nottheir preferred way of dealing with the problem, List wrote: "The chiming of the bells has no religious background, but it causes massive sleeping disorders for the neighbors of the Mariendom in Linz, with significant repercussions for their health, such as states of exhaustion."

"The European Court ofHuman Rights in Strasbourg has declared a night's rest a human right," the letter to the Holy Father goes on. "We therefore beseech you, Holy Father, to intervene to ensure that human right of the people of Linz to a healthy and refreshing nights sleep is respected and that the bells no longer chime at night. The European Convention on Human Rights does in factprohibitsleep deprivation, arguing that aviolation of this rulecan constitute an actof torture.

The letter to the pope does not use the word torture. Instead, its senders address more subtle problems in the interaction between Austrians and representatives of the church. "We hope that you, Holy Father, can be a role model for the Catholic Church in Austria by being more connected to the needs and problems of ordinary [believers]," the documentcontinues.

Both the Catholic Church and Wolfgang Lassy have shown intransigence. On Feb. 24, both parties will meet to discuss a possible solution through non-judicial means.

"For us, however, such a solution could only consist of a chiming ban from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m.," List told The Post.

Rick Noack writes about foreign affairs. He is an Arthur F. Burns Fellow at The Washington Post.

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Just two days into the job, Ukraine's new Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin, is asking parliament to strip three of Kyiv's judges of their immunity from prosecution so that he can arrest them. The judges, Oksana Tzarevich, Viktor Kytsyuk and Sehiy Vovk, are all members of the infamous Pechersk district court in central Kyiv.

The Pechersk court has seen some of Ukraine's most controversial court rulings handed down, including the release of former Berkut commander Dmytro Sadovnyk on bail after he was accused of ordering lethal attacks on Euromaidan demonstrators in February 2014.

Sadovnyk disappeared soon afterwards and has since been placed on Ukraine's wanted list.

But critics suspect long-time lawman Shokin, who first became a deputy prosecutor in 2002, is actually repaying some of the 318 votes in the Verkhovhna Rada that approved his appointment as Prosecutor General.

The three judges targeted by Shokin all stand accused of presiding over cases described by the European Union as politically-motivated trials. Those trials targeted former President Viktor Yanukovych's opponents, such as Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko, many of whom now form the ruling coalition.

This move has little to do with respecting the rule of law," said Arkadiy Buschenko, Executive Director at Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union. I suspect the new prosecutor is just trying to fulfil the requests or demands of the ruling parties."

Judge Vovk was on the panel for the first trial of former Minister of Internal Affairs Lutsenko, which led to ex-Minister being sentenced to four years in prison and serving more than two.

In 2013 Judges Tsarevich and Kitsyuk led the court investigation which implicated already imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the 1996 murder of businessman and parliamentarian Yevhen Shcherban, formally notifying her that she was a suspect. The case eventually collapsed for lack of evidence.

Shokin's appeal to parliament accuses the judges of advancing an an unlawful ruling of serious consequences committed for mercenary motives or other personal interests," under Article 375 of Ukraine's criminal code.

He has also requested that Ukraine's High Commission for the Qualification of Judges dismiss the trio, informing them that a criminal investigation is underway in the Kyiv prosecutor's office. But Buschenko sees this not as an attempt to enforce justice, but to consolidate control over the remaining pro-Yanukovych judges.

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