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Ukraine leads in number of human rights violations against Russian citizens

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Ukraine leads in number of human rights violations against Russian citizens


25.02.2019

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The rights of 69 Russians are violated in Ukrainian prisons. The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Tatyana Moskalkova has such data. The list, which appeared at her disposal, contains the names of civil activists and natives of Crimea. They are kept in poor conditions and need medical assistance, Izvestiya reports.

According to ombudsman, Ukraine was the leader in the number of human rights violations against Russian citizens in 2018. Tatyana Moskalkova received more than 180 petitions from a neighboring country. Kazakhstan ranks second. Almost three times fewer applications came from there. The list, which the ombudsman and her team are working on today, includes the individuals who suffered for their citizenship. According to the ombudsman, the majority of complaints concern detention conditions, violations of investigative actions and judicial procedures.

The list included those arrested people, whose criminal cases caused a wide public response, such as journalist Kirill Vyshinsky and servicemen Maxim Odintsov and Alexander Baranov. Tatyana Moskalkova also mentioned 84-year-old Kharkov scientist Mekhti Logunov, who was called the “Russian spy” by Ukraine. Meanwhile, according to Moskalkova, his whole fault lies in the fact that he was critical of the situation in the country among his colleagues.

Tatyana Moskalkova said that people on Russian list need medical assistance. The ombudsman called on Ukrainian side to treat the prisoners in a humane way, recalling that the survey of Ukrainian sailors detained in the Kerch Strait took place in civilian medical institutions, not in remand centre.

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