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Oksana Pokalchuk
@OPokalchuk
Former Director at @Amnesty_UA. Events from #Ukraine & wider region from the human rights perspective. 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈♀
Jun 30, 2022 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
⚡ NEW investigation by @amnesty concludes the deadly strike on the Mariupol Drama Theatre is a war crime carried out by the Russian forces.

THREAD 👇
amnesty.org/en/latest/news… Between 16 March and 21 June, we analysed available credible evidence related to the attack on the theatre. This included 53 first-hand testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the attack and its aftermath, 28 of whom were inside or adjacent to the theatre at the time.
Apr 5, 2022 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
I had the honour to testify before the House of Commons of Canada on the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the war crimes @amnesty was able to document.

Below is a transcript of my speech 👇 Dear Chair, dear members of the committee,

I am humbled to speak before you on behalf of Amnesty International. Thank you for this opportunity.
Apr 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Wilful killing is a war crime. Torture is a war crime.
Mar 22, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Ukraine banned most men of age 18-60 from leaving the country.

Unfortunately, it is having an unjustified impact on some groups of men, especially men with disabilities.

THREAD 👇 Ukraine’s martial law prohibits men aged between 18 and 60 from leaving the country. People leaving Ukraine are therefore overwhelmingly women and children, as families are being separated.
Mar 17, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Russian invasion of Ukraine is an act of aggression.

Now, what does it mean and entail? Thread 👇 An act of aggression is a crime under international law.
Mar 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
⚡ New @amnesty research shows devastating impact of the Russian attack on the town of Izium.

The town is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news… Satellite imagery from 12 March reviewed by Amnesty International clearly showed craters and damage close to locations reported by open street maps as children’s schools and hospitals. Image
Mar 8, 2022 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
The gender dimension of this war is very important.

I'm starting a thread on how the war affects women's rights in Ukraine: including access to healthcare, domestic and sexual violence, and sex work. #IWD .@amnesty has already documented how the last few years’ militarization and war in Donbas have led to increased rates of gender-based violence and reduced access to essential services. It is a pattern now set to spread across the country as a whole.
Mar 3, 2022 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
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.
Mar 1, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
.@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.

Our statement 👇
amnesty.org/en/latest/news… 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.
Mar 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Central Kharkiv. Freedom Square. Other videos showing the impact of the attack emerge.

Jan 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
An anonymous Telegram channel has started posting photos from inside the notorious Izolyatsiya "prison" ran by armed groups in #Donetsk.

One former prisoner, Stanislav Aseev, has confirmed the authenticity of the photos. ImageImageImageImage 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.
Mar 3, 2019 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
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.