Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova knowledgeable the UN Fee of Inquiry into human rights violations throughout the Russian army invasion of Ukraine and the skilled mission created by the OSCE taking part states in regards to the violation of the Geneva Conference in respect of Ukrainian servicemen who fell into the Russian captivity.
“Ombudsman of the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova violates the rights of the Ukrainian army. Right this moment, Russia’s ombudsman paid a go to to the Ukrainian servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who have been captured and are in one of many army models of the Black Sea Fleet within the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The printed images taken throughout the go to, the face of Ukrainians was not retouched,” Denisova stated on Fb on Saturday.
She stated the Third Geneva Conference and Further Protocol I, in regards to the safety of prisoners of conflict, established that prisoners of conflict have to be handled humanely in all circumstances and protected against any act of violence, in addition to from intimidation, insults and the general public curiosity.
“This consists of the disclosure of pictures or video recordings, information of interrogations, non-public conversations or private correspondence and different non-public information. The ombudsman of Russia violated the necessities of those acts in a publication about his go to to Ukrainian prisoners of conflict. I ask the UN Fee to research human rights violations throughout the army invasion of Russia to Ukraine and an skilled mission created by the OSCE taking part States in accordance with the Moscow mechanism, to keep in mind these violations of the rights of Ukrainian residents by Russian officers, particularly ombudsman Moskalkova,” Denisova stated.
On the similar time, she printed a retouched photograph of Ukrainian prisoners of conflict.
The Ukrainian ombudsman additionally drew consideration to the truth that throughout her go to on March 19 to one of many locations of detention of Russian prisoners of conflict, no violations by Ukraine of the necessities of the Geneva Conference on the Therapy of Prisoners of Battle have been revealed.
