17/05/2022 16:26

Commissioner: Invaders threaten men with execution for refusing to fight against Ukraine at TOT of Luhansk region

In the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region, rashists are carrying out forced mobilization.  Invaders threaten to shoot men for refusing to fight against Ukraine.

The russian occupiers are searching for men who have moved deep into the occupied territories and to safer places to escape the shelling.  Homes, households, suburbs and towns are being searched.

"Recruits" are taken away under the barrels of machine guns, and in case of resistance they are threatened with execution.

The forced mobilization of the inhabitants of the occupied territories is prohibited by Article 51 IV of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during russia's military invasion of Ukraine to take into account this fact of russia's human rights violations in Ukraine.