Human rights activists ask OSCE, UN, Council of Europe to send monitoring missions to Crimea

Дата: 27 October 2015
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The Crimean Field Mission calls on the OSCE, the UN and the Council of Europe to monitor and assess the human rights situation on the Crimean peninsula.

The human rights situation in the Crimean Peninsula remains difficult and disturbing, while it is increasingly falling out of the media spotlight. In a situation of conflict, the messages coming from there are contradictory and sometimes unverified, generating opposite opinions. However, the events in Crimea became a turning point and will long remain a source of political opposition for the entire Greater Europe,” reads the statement of the Crimean Human Rights Field Mission.

The human rights activists remind that many independent media and human rights defenders have been forced to curtail their work and leave the peninsula.

As known, the activity of the official missions of the international intergovernmental organizations is also limited due to the fact that Russia considers the territory of Crimea to be a part of Russian Federation and requires coordination, which, in turn, is unacceptable for Ukraine. Meanwhile, the access of international journalists and human rights activists is hindered by additional restrictions on the entry imposed by Ukraine, and the need to obtain a special permit.

The Crimean Field Mission believes that the human rights function of presence, monitoring, and, possibly, the reduction of the degree of tension and conflict is in great demand and cannot be performed exclusively by the civil society organizations.

Earlier, the Crimean Field Mission stated that persecutions of activists by the Crimean authorities for participating in protests on February 26, 2014 violated international law and principles of criminal law.

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