31/05/2022 11:06

Commissioner: for citizens of Ukraine forcibly deported to the Crimea, their stay on the peninsula is restricted

The occupying authorities of Crimea have decided to remove the temporary accommodation of "Ukrainian refugees" from the resort towns of the peninsula, which it also forcibly removed from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Points of temporary accommodation of citizens remain only in border settlements for the purpose of operative sending of Ukrainians to the mainland of the russian federation.  At the same time, a limited period of stay will be set for people who were deported to the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea.

The detention of pro-Ukrainian citizens forcibly removed from the temporarily occupied territories in the Crimea poses threats to the "russian measure."  People are really telling what is happening on the mainland of Ukraine about war crimes and attempts by racists to destroy the Ukrainian nation.  Thus, information from witnesses to the war changes the opinion of the Crimean people themselves and their attitude to the russian invasion of Ukraine.  And this has a stronger impact than russian propaganda.

By moving people, the occupier violates Article 49 IV of the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, which prohibits, for whatever reason, the forced individual or mass resettlement or deportation of protected persons from the occupied territories to or from the occupied state.  the territory of any other State, whether occupied or not, and is a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during the russian Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.