Anniversary of an outrageous abduction in #Crimea.
Activist Reshat Ametov, age 39, was abducted by unknown men in uniforms in broad daylight on 3 March 2014. Twelve days later his body was found with signs of torture.
Ametov was attending a small protest in front of the Council of Ministers in Crimea. He was known for his posts on Facebook critical of the current situation of the #CrimeanTatars and the future of the peninsula.
The identities of Ametov's abductors haven't been established despite the available video evidence.
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Activists in #Kyiv are holding monthly pickets outside the Russian Embassy to commemorate victims of killings and enforced disappearences like Reshat Ametov.
How to understand if a certain attack is a war crime?
I'm doing a thread to explain this and other related questions.
Welcome the Laws of War 101 👇
Armed conflicts are governed principally by international humanitarian law (IHL), which is also known as the laws of war. IHL is a set of rules – either codified in treaties or recognized through custom – that limits the permissible behavior of parties to a conflict.
Ever heard of the Geneva Conventions? Those are the core of IHL.
.@amnesty qualifies Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a manifest violation of the United Nations Charter and an act of aggression that is a crime under international law.
All those involved in this crime of aggression should be held accountable for those violations. Their personal, individual, and collective liability should be invoked for that, and for all the many crimes that have characterised their invasion of Ukraine thus far.
Russia is invading into the heart of Ukraine, seeking to depose its lawfully elected government, with a real and potential massive impact on civilians’ lives, safety and well-being; its acts cannot remotely be justified on any of the grounds that Russia has offered.
Izolyatsiya used to be a factory-turned-art center before the outbreak of the armed conflict in eastern #Ukraine.
Separatist armed groups are currently using it as unofficial detention facility where pro-Ukrainian or disloyal individuals are being held & tortured.
These photos reveal the horrific conditions in which the prisoners of Izolyatsiya are being held, illustrating the accounts of its former detainees who reported widespread torture & humiliation by their captors.