Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova knowledgeable the UN Fee of Inquiry into human rights violations through the Russian navy invasion of Ukraine and the skilled mission created by the OSCE taking part states concerning 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 navy. Right this moment, Russia’s ombudsman paid a go to to the Ukrainian servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who had been captured and are in one of many navy items of the Black Sea Fleet within the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The printed pictures taken through the go to, the face of Ukrainians was not retouched,” Denisova stated on Fb on Saturday.
She stated the Third Geneva Conference and Extra Protocol I, regarding the safety of prisoners of battle, established that prisoners of battle 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 images or video recordings, information of interrogations, personal conversations or private correspondence and different personal knowledge. The ombudsman of Russia violated the necessities of those acts in a publication about his go to to Ukrainian prisoners of battle. I ask the UN Fee to research human rights violations through the navy invasion of Russia to Ukraine and an skilled mission created by the OSCE taking part States in accordance with the Moscow mechanism, to take note of these violations of the rights of Ukrainian residents by Russian officers, specifically ombudsman Moskalkova,” Denisova stated.
On the identical time, she printed a retouched picture of Ukrainian prisoners of battle.
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 battle, no violations by Ukraine of the necessities of the Geneva Conference on the Therapy of Prisoners of Struggle had been revealed.
