The head of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ihor Ponochovny, said that the human rights situation in the occupied Crimea is deteriorating, but the atmosphere of total terror is part of the policy of the occupying state. The press service of the department reported about this.
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“The human rights situation in the occupied peninsula is deteriorating. Since the occupation, the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol has recorded numerous facts of premeditated killings, abductions, torture, and criminal prosecution of Ukrainian citizens on religious, political, ethnic and other grounds. And this list can be continued for a long time. However, the atmosphere of total terror in Crimea is part of the policy of the occupying state, which is aimed at changing the demographic composition of the population”,- he said.
Ponochovny stressed that the ultimate goal of such a policy is to oust Ukrainian citizens who disagree with the occupation regime, and to populate the peninsula with Russian citizens, which is a serious violation of international humanitarian law.
It is noted that each fact of violation of human rights in the occupied territory of the peninsula is recorded by the prosecutor's office of the autonomy in the relevant criminal proceedings in order to implement the principle of inevitability of punishment of perpetrators, using both national and international mechanisms.