Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine A/RES/74/168 Welcoming also the reports of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human right s in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, submitted pursuant to resolutions 71/205 7 and 72/190, 8 and the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to resolution 73/263, 9 Reaffirming its grave concern that the human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine continues to be denied access to Crimea, despite its existing mandate, which covers the entire territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, Condemning the imposition and retroactive application of the legal system of the Russian Federation, and its negative impact on the hu man rights situation in Crimea, the imposition of automatic Russian citizenship on protected persons in Crimea, which is contrary to international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions and customary international law, and the deportation and r egressive effects on the enjoyment of human rights of those who have rejected that citizenship, Gravely concerned by consistent reports that the Russian law enforcement system uses involuntary placement in a psychiatric institution as a form of harassment against and punishment of political opponents and activists, Deeply concerned that, since 2014, torture has reportedly been used by the Russian authorities to extract false confessions for politically motivated prosecutions, including in the case of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film-maker, and expressing deep concern about the ongoing arbitrary detentions and arrests by the Russian Federation of Ukrainian citizens, including Emir-Usein Kuku and many others, Deeply concerned also that the occupation continues to affect the enjoyment of social and economic rights by residents, including children, older persons and persons with disabilities, Condemning the reported serious violations and abuses committed against residents of Crimea, in particular extrajudicial killings, abductions, enforced disappearances, politically motivated prosecutions, discrimination, harassment, intimidation, violence, including sexual violence, arbitrary detentions and arrests, torture and ill-treatment, in particular to extract confessions, and psychiatric internment, and their forcible transfer or deportation 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 r ight to peaceful assembly, Gravely concerned by the above-mentioned policies and practices of the Russian Federation, which cause a continuing threat and make it impossible to reside in Crimea, and have caused the population to move out from the peninsula , Recalling that individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the occupying Power, or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited under international humanitarian law, regardless of their motive, Deeply concerned by consistent reports that the Russian Federation promotes policies and conducts practices aimed at changing the demographic structure in Crimea, and recalling in this respect that the occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, __________________ 7 8 9 19-22310 See A/72/498. See A/73/404. A/74/276. 3/8