The Crimean Tatar Resource Center informed the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on enforced disappearances and killings in the occupied Crimea and provided the Working Group on Forced or Involuntary Disappearances with relevant materials on the topic “Standards and State Policy for Effective Investigation of Enforced Disappearances”. The CTRC report has been published on the Working Group website, and the thematic report and annex to it will be released in early September 2020.
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In a report published on the UN website, the CTRC notes that enforced disappearances of people continue in the occupied Crimea. According to the monitoring data of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, 17 people are considered missing during the occupation period (at the time of submission of materials – February 2019). Activists who opposed the Russian annexation in February-May 2014 have been enforced disappearances en masse. Unfortunately, the de facto Russian-controlled “authorities” of Crimea only pretend to be investigating cases, despite the fact that, in accordance with the UN General Assembly resolution A / RES / 71/205, Russia is considered an occupying state and is responsible for observing human rights in this territory.
“During the entire period of the occupation in Crimea, 30 people were forcibly abducted, 8 people were found and released, 17 people have not been found to date, 5 people have been found dead (at the time of submission of materials – February 2019). Both the Russian and Ukrainian authorities do not conduct effective investigations into these cases”,- the CTRC report says.
In its materials, the CTRC provided a complete list of persons subjected to enforced disappearances and described in detail all known cases of disappearances, abductions and murders of people in the occupied Crimea. More information on these cases can be found on the website of the UN Working Group on Forced or Involuntary Disappearances.