* Ukraine has hit a beach in Sevastopol killing and injuring hundreds, including many kids.
It is not Ukraine that violates the rights of civilians living on the Russian-occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, but Russia.
On Tuesday, June 25, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) announced a decision on the merits in the first interstate case in the ECHR “Ukraine v. Russia” regarding Crimea, recognizing the existence of systematic violations of human rights in the occupied peninsula by the aggressor country since 2014.
The ECtHR unanimously found that Ukraine proved the existence of administrative practices on the part of Russia:
- Disappearances and the lack of an effective investigation in this regard under Article 2 of the Convention;
- ill-treatment and unlawful detention under articles 3 and 5 of the Convention;
- Illegal dissemination of Russian legislation, as a result of which the courts in Crimea cannot be considered established in accordance with the law, under Article 6;
- Forced change of Ukrainian citizenship to Russian under Article 8 of the Convention;
- Systematic mass searches in violation of Article 8;
- Forced transfer of convicts to the territory of the Russian Federation in violation of Article 8;
- Attacks and persecution of religious leaders who did not belong to the Russian Orthodox Church, searches and confiscation of property in this regard, in violation of Article 9;
- Closure of non-Russian media, including Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar television stations, constant harassment and attacks on journalists in violation of Article 10;
Prohibition of peaceful assemblies and protests and attacks and persecution of their organizers in violation of Article 11 of the Convention;
- Expropriation of private property in violation of Article 1 of the First Protocol;
- Closure of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar classes contrary to Article 2 of the First Protocol;
- Violation of the right to freedom of movement between the occupied territory of Crimea and the mainland of Ukraine;
- Discrimination against Crimean Tatars;
- Violation of the rights of political prisoners, the impossibility of their return to Ukraine and cruel treatment of them in the occupied Crimea and the territory of the Russian Federation.
https://nv.ua/world/geopolitics/razgromnoe-reshenie-dlya-rf-espch-vynes-verdikt-po-delu-ukraina-protiv-rossii-po-krymu-50429951.htmlIn addition, on June 25, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for ex-Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the head of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov in connection with attacks on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine and harm to civilians and relate to events that took place from October 10, 2022 to at least March 9, 2023, as well as for war crimes of causing excessive incidental harm to the civilian population or damage to civilian objects. In addition, they are suspected of a crime against humanity “in the form of inhumane acts.”
https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/cy008y2nny1ohttps://www.rbc.ua/ukr/news/derzhdepi-ssha-vidreaguvali-vidachu-mks-orderiv-1719368764.htmlUkraine is documenting the war crimes of the Putin regime in Ukraine and the perpetrators will eventually receive the punishment they deserve.