Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic
of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine)
A/RES/71/205
Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, in which they stated that violations and abuses of human
rights continued to take place in Crimea and pointed to the sharp deterioration of the
overall human rights situation,
Condemning the imposition of the legal system of the Russian Federation and
the negative impact on the human rights situation in Crimea,
Condemning also the reported serious violations and abuses committed against
residents of Crimea, in particular extrajudicial killings, abductions, enfo rced
disappearances, politically motivated prosecutions, discrimination, harassment,
intimidation, violence, arbitrary detentions, torture and ill -treatment of detainees
and their transfer from Crimea 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,
Expressing serious concern at the decision of the so-called Supreme Court of
Crimea of 26 April 2016 and the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian
Federation of 29 September 2016 to declare the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People,
the self-governing body of the Crimean Tatars, to be an extremist organization and
to ban its activities,
Recalling the prohibition under the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 2
for the occupying Power to compel a protected person to serve in its armed or
auxiliary forces,
Welcoming the continued efforts of the Secretary-General, the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe and other international and regional
organizations to support Ukraine in promoting, protecting and ensuring human
rights, and expressing concern over the lack of safe and unfettered access by
established regional and international human rights monitoring mechanisms and
human rights non-governmental organizations to Crimea,
1.
Condemns the abuses, measures and practices of discrimination against
the residents of the temporarily occupied Crimea, including Crimean Tatars, as well
as Ukrainians and persons belonging to other ethnic and religious groups, by the
Russian occupation authorities;
2.
Urges the Russian Federation:
(a) To uphold all of its obligations under applicable international law as an
occupying Power;
(b) To take all measures necessary to bring an immediate end to all abuses
against residents of Crimea, in particular reported discriminatory measures and
practices, arbitrary detentions, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment, and to revoke all discriminatory legislation;
(c) To immediately release Ukrainian citizens who were unlawfully detained
and judged without regard for elementary standards of justice, as well as those
transferred across internationally recognized borders from Crimea to the Russian
Federation;
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