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The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has recorded 42 cases of enforced disappearance since Crimea was illegally annexed by Russia.

“During the reporting period [13 Sept. 2017 – 30 June 2018], we documented four new cases of enforced disappearance. Thus, the total number of known cases has risen to 42 since the beginning of the occupation,” Fiona Frazer, the Head of the UN Human Rights Mission to Ukraine, said during presentation of the report on human rights situation in the temporarily occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, a Ukrinform correspondent reports.

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