Situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied territories of
Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the
city of Sevastopol
A/RES/80/223
Iryna Danylovych, Bohdan Ziza, Enver Krosh, Vilen Temeryanov, Mariano García
Calatayud, Seyran Saliev, Oleh Pryhodko, Osman Arifmemetov and many others,
Deeply concerned about the serious continued restrictions on the right to
freedom of movement and the rights to liberty and security of person, especially for
those who have been previously unlawfully or arbitrarily arrested or detained and
served sentences on politically motivated criminal charges,
Gravely concerned that the temporary occupation continues to hinder the
enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights by residents, including children,
women, older persons, persons with disabilities and other persons in vulnerable and
marginalized situations,
Condemning the reported serious violations of international humanitarian law
and violations and abuses of human rights committed against residents of the
temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, in particular those involving extrajudicial
killings, abductions, enforced disappearances, politically motivated prosecutions,
discrimination, harassment, intimidation, violence, including sexual and gender based violence, mass searches and raids, arbitrary detentions and arrests, torture and
ill-treatment, in particular to extract confessions, subjecting detainees to special
security regimes and involuntary placement in psychiatric institutions, as well as
deplorable treatment and conditions in detention, and the forcible transfer or
deportation of protected persons to the Russian Federation, as well as reported abuses
of other fundamental freedoms, including the freedoms of expression, religion or
belief and association and the right to peaceful assembly,
Seriously concerned about violations of international law by the Russian
Federation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, including those
involving arbitrary detention of civilians, the taking of hostages and so -called
filtration procedures, particularly affecting displaced persons, and strongly
condemning the ongoing impunity in reported cases of enforced disappearances and
the continued use of these practices to intimidate and oppress the local population,
Expressing grave concern at the findings of the Independent International
Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine that Russian authorities have committed enforced
disappearances as crimes against humanity, and that the enforced disappearances were
committed for a prolonged period of time as part of a widespread and systematic
attack against civilian populations, pursuant to a coordinated State policy,
Expressing grave concern also at the reported continued denial by the Russian
authorities of information to the families of forcibly disappeared and missing persons,
as well as prisoners of war and civilian detainees, on their fate and whereabouts,
which denies victims and their families justice, truth, reparations and guarantees of
non‑repetition,
Deeply concerned about restrictions faced by Ukrainians, including Indigenous
Peoples of Crimea, in particular the Crimean Tatars, in exercising their civil, political,
economic, social and cultural rights, including the rights to work and education, as
well as the ability to maintain their identity and preserve their culture and to education
in the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages,
Condemning the reported destructions of cultural and natural heritage, illegal
archaeological excavations and transfer of cultural property, discrimination against
persons belonging to religious minorities and repression of religious traditions,
thereby diminishing Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar culture in the ethnocultural
landscape of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine,
Expressing concern about the intensified militarization and assimilation of young
people in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine by the Russian Federation,
25-20987
5/15
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