A next interim report of the UN Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has been published, which will be presented at a session of the UN Human Rights Council, which will start work on June 21, Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova has said.
“The report records the continuing practices of illegal persecution of Crimean residents, the use of torture for self-denigration, the movement of illegally convicted persons to the territory of Russia, and the impunity of the Russian occupation authorities, including the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation,” Dzhaparova said on her Facebook page on Saturday evening.
She said that “the retrospective application of Russian legislation is separately noted, in particular for an attack on media freedom and eviction of Crimean residents, which is in fact one of the forms of forced change in the demographic composition of the population.”
“Russian lawlessness also includes an attack on religious freedom, in particular, it is about the persecution of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. These are practices in violation of international law that Russia brought with it as an occupation power in the Ukrainian lands of Crimea and Donbas,” Dzhaparova said.
