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 Condemning the continuous widespread misuse of counter-terrorism and anti‑extremism laws to suppress dissent, including through enforcing new Russian legislation with the intent to dissuade the residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine from peaceful protests, in accordance with their rights to freedom of expression and opinion and freedom of peaceful assembly, following and during the war of aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, Strongly condemning, in this regard, the ongoing pressure and mass detentions on terrorism, extremism and espionage or related grounds and other forms of repression against journalists and other media workers, lawyers, human rights defenders and civil rights activists, including against activists of the Crimean Solidarity civic initiative, which documents violations and provides humanitarian assistance to the families of victims of politically motivated prosecutions, Recalling the judgment of the International Court of Justice of 31 January 2024 in Application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Ukraine v. Russian Federation), 35 Recalling also the judgment of the International Court of Justice of 2 February 2024 in Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation) , 36 Recalling further the prohibition under the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 for the occupying Power to compel protected persons to serve in its armed or auxiliary forces, including medical staff, and strongly condemning any forced conscription and mobilization to the armed forces of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine against the backdrop of the war of aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, Recalling that the safety of journalists, other media workers and a free press, or other media, are essential for the realization of the rights to freedom of expression and freedom to seek, receive and impart information and the enjoyment of other human rights and fundamental freedoms, concerned about reports that journalists, media workers and citizen journalists continue to face unjustified interference with their reporting activities in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, and expressing deep concern that journalists, media workers and citizen journalists have been arbitrarily arrested, detained, prosecuted, harassed, intimidated, tortured and killed as a direct result of their reporting activities, in particular for covering developments in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine as well as the war of aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, Condemning the blocking by the Russian Federation of Ukrainian websites and television channels and the seizure of Ukrainian transmission frequencies in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, which entails completely blocking access to Ukrainian education, as well as the use of mass media controlled by the occupying Power to incite hatred against Ukrainians, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Crimean Tatars, Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses and activists and to call for atrocities against Ukrainians, Expressing grave concern at the findings of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine that the Russian authorities, pursuant to a coordinated State policy, have engaged in widespread and systematic torture, _______________ 35 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-ninth Session, Supplement No. 4 (A/79/4), chap. V, sect. A. 36 Ibid. 25-20987 7/15