The aggressor country of the Russian Federation lost the case of human rights violations in Crimea in the ECHR.
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The European Court of Human Rights unanimously adopted a decision in which it found Russia responsible for violating human rights and freedoms in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol. Margarita Sokorenko, Commissioner for ECHR Affairs at the Ministry of Justice, announced this on Facebook on June 25.
Themis admitted that the Ukrainian side has proven the existence of systematic violations by Ukrainians since the beginning of the occupation of Crimea in February 2014. Thus, this decision nullified ten years of Russian Federation statements about the observance of human rights on the annexed peninsula.
This decision is the first in which an international court found the Russian Federation responsible for the policy of large-scale and systematic violations of various human rights and freedoms in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Sokorenko emphasized.
The Ukrainian government has proven that the Russians have introduced administrative practices in Crimea of disappearances and lack of effective investigation, ill-treatment and illegal detentions, forced change of citizenship to Russian, systematic searches, forced transfers to Russian territory. Persecution of religious leaders, discrimination against Crimean Tatars, closure of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar classes and non-Russian media were also recorded.
Representatives of Russia in court tried to prove that the occupiers allegedly did not violate human rights on the peninsula.
Let us recall that in July 2023, Russia lost the case in the ECHR regarding the destruction of flight MH17 in Donbass. The aggressor country blamed Ukraine for alleged administrative practices of “murders, kidnappings, forced relocations, interference in voting rights, restrictions on the use of the Russian language, and attacks on Russian embassies and consulates.”
Source: Racurs
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