The United Nations has released the third report by Secretary General Antonio Guterres on human rights violations in the occupied Crimea, which covers the period from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020. The text of the report is published on the website of the organization.
The report noted a number of human rights violations in the occupied Crimea: torture and ill-treatment by Russian FSB officers, unsatisfactory conditions of detention and limited access to medical services in places of detention, interference in the professional activities of journalists, forced displacement and deportation from Crimea, and also the movement of civilians from the Russian Federation to Crimea.
“I also call on them to create a safe environment for the activities of independent and pluralistic media and civil society organizations, as well as to lift restrictions imposed on the Crimean Tatar community in order to preserve its representative institutions, including a ban on the activities of the Mejlis”,- Guterres added.