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• War crimes • Research
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group is documenting international crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes) allegedly committed by the Russian occupiers in Kharkiv and Kharkiv Oblast. In this article we publish a summary of the events that took place in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region during the first 30 days of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war (February 24 – March 25, 2022). The information in this publication is approximate, based on the data we have collected and needs clarification.
• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
It is every Crimean Tatar son’s duty, when the time comes, to bid a fitting farewell to his parents, yet a Russian-controlled court in Crimea has refused to allow political prisoner Nariman Dzhelyal to attend the funeral of his father, Enver Dzhelyal.
• War crimes
The International Criminal Court had begun investigating likely war crimes within just over a week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and a Ukrainian coalition has already documented 388 such crimes.
The latest shelling of a hospital in Kharkiv left four dead, and injured three, with the hospital hit also a humanitarian aid centre
• Freedom of conscience and religion • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Independent experts have confirmed that Azamat Eyupov’s voice is not on the taped conversation about religion and Russian persecution which Russia’s FSB is using as alleged grounds for a prison sentence of up to 20 years
Russian soldiers have been targeting activists, journalists and local politicians in all towns and cities they have seized, with the latest victim Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov, a civic activist and journalist from Prymorsk
While mercilessly razing Mariupol to the ground and refusing to provide safe corridors, Russia is also organizing propaganda stunts with ‘refugees’ taken to Russia or occupied Crimea, or given ‘humanitarian aid’
• Events
Statements by some Western European politicians that only Putin is responsible for the war are an unforgivable simplification in matters of personal and collective resp. for unleashing and waging an aggressive war, war crimes and violations of int. law.
"It is our common duty to stop the war and to protect the lives, rights and freedoms of all people, both Ukrainians and Russians," the members of Council of Russian Human Rights Defenders say.
Zair Smedlyaev had asked, after Russia's bombing of a maternity hospital, “How many more innocent civilians, women and new-born babies, must die for the world to begin distinguishing between genocide and God knows what special operations?”
The Russian invaders who seized Viktor Maruniak, the Head of the Stara Zburivka Council in the Kherson oblast, three days ago are savagely torturing him and placing his very life in danger.
Russia’s effective exclusion from the Council of Europe over its invasion of Ukraine will not mean that the gross violations of human rights it is currently committing will be outside the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights