20/05/2022 18:27

In the temporarily occupied Crimea, the practice of enforced disappearances of public activists who disagree with the actions of rashist invaders continues

The artist Bohdan Ziza, who on May 16, 2022 in Yevpatoria doused the "city administration" with yellow and blue paints and threw a Molotov cocktail into the building, disappeared after his arrest.

On the same day, the occupiers spread a video through the Crimean media and telegram channels in which Bohdan, in a torn T-shirt, "apologizes” in a trembling voice for the “whole act."  It was noticeable that he read the text under pressure, it is possible that he was tortured.

Since his arrest, friends and human rights activists have been trying to find Ziza, but his whereabouts have not been established.  There is no information about the arrest or consideration of an administrative case on the website of the Evpatoria City Court.

By doing so, the occupiers violate the provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, Article 5 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which guarantees everyone the right to privacy, the 4th Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons  on human rights.

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