CTRC in Warsaw to speak about human rights violations in the occupied Crimea

On Friday, 4 October, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center will hold a side-event ‘Rule of Law and Occupied Crimea: Illegal Trials as a tool of Persecution’ as part of the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference.

The event will be devoted to highlighting massive human rights violations in the occupied Crimea and Russia’s ongoing discriminatory policy in the occupied territories of Ukraine. In particular, attention will be focused on the lack of opportunity for residents of the occupied peninsula to exercise the right to a fair trial and the consequences of this. The event will emphasize the importance of restoring the rule of law and ensuring justice for victims of human rights violations and the challenges faced in this process.

Speakers will include:

Eskender Bariiev – Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Centre, member of  Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people;

Emine Suleymanova – sister of political prisoner Marlen Mustafayev;

Ayshe Kurtamet – mother of political prisoner Appaz Kurtamet;

Tetiana Lukyanenko – relative of political prisoner Rustem Gugurik;

Borys Babin – expert of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center;

Liudmyla Korotkikh – lawyer of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.

During the event the following topics will be discussed: Trends of human rights violations in the occupied territories of southern Ukraine.
1.Trends of human rights violations in the occupied territories of southern Ukraine.

2.Politically motivated trials as the main tool of prosecution. The «judicial» system and the trial in the occupied Crimea: the position of international institutions.

3.The «judicial» system and the trial in the occupied Crimea: the position of international institutions.

4.Mechanisms for ensuring accountability and justice for the victims of human rights violations.

This event will be hosted by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center  as part of the Engage Program funded by USAID and implemented by Pact in Ukraine. The content of the event is the sole responsibility of Pact and its partners and does not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the U.S. government.