A/RES/78/221
Situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied territories
of Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and
the city of Sevastopol
international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions and customary
international law, and the deportation, regressive effects on the enjoyment of human
rights and effective restriction of land ownership of those who have rejected that
citizenship,
Deeply concerned about continued reports that the law enforcement system of
the Russian Federation conducts searches and raids of private homes, businesses and
meeting places in the temporarily controlled or occupied territories of Ukraine, which
disproportionally affect Crimean Tatars, and recalling that the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights prohibits arbitrary or unlawful interference with a
person’s privacy, family, home or correspondence,
Gravely concerned that, since 2014, torture has reportedly been used by the
Russian authorities, and expressing deep concern about the ongoing reports of
arbitrary detentions, arrests and sentencing by the Russian Federation of Ukrainian
citizens and citizens of other countries, in particular for statements and actions in
opposition to the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, including
Emir-Usein Kuku, Halyna Dovhopola, Server Mustafayev, Vladyslav Yesypenko,
Nariman Dzhelyal, Asan and Aziz Akhmetov, Iryna Danilovych, Bohdan Ziza, Enver
Krosh, Vilen Temeryanov, Mariano García Calatayud and many others,
Deeply concerned about the serious continued restrictions on the right to
freedom of movement of persons who have been previously arbitrarily detained and
served sentences on politically motivated criminal charges,
Gravely concerned that the temporary control or occupation continues to affect
the enjoyment of social, cultural and economic 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 controlled or occupied territories of Ukraine, in particular 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 reports of arbitrary detention and the taking of
civilian hostages by the Russian Federation in the temporarily controlled or occupied
territories of Ukraine, which is strictly prohibited under international law,
Deeply concerned about restrictions faced by Ukrainians, including Indigenous
Peoples of Crimea, in particular the Crimean Tatars, in exercising their economic,
social and cultural rights, including the right to work and education, as well as the
ability to maintain their identity and 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 of
persons belonging to religious minorities and repression of religious traditions,
thereby diminishing Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar culture in the ethnocultural
landscape of the temporarily controlled or occupied territories of Ukraine,
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