The Center for Human Rights “ZMINA” published a report “Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detentions of Active Citizens in the Course of Full-Scale Russian Armed Aggression against Ukraine”.
This report, prepared jointly with tCoalition of Public Organizations “Ukraine. The Fifth Morning”, provides data on enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of active citizens, including social activists, volunteers, journalists, officials and employees of local government, teachers, religious figures, cultural figures, as well as relatives of active citizens.
The report contains a reminder that from 2014 until the start of a full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, the “Crimea SOS” civil organization recorded 44 cases of enforced disappearances on the territory of the occupied AR of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. Of these 44 cases: 6 people were subsequently found dead, the fate and whereabouts of 15 people remain unknown, 19 people were released.
The report also recalls that during the first seven years of the occupation of Crimea, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission documented 643 cases of enforced disappearances in Crimea. Of the 43 victims of enforced disappearance, 11 remain missing, and one person is in places of captivity.
