Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova: іn the Kherson region, the occupiers are forcing local entrepreneurs to obtain temporary work permits and threatening to confiscate property.
Russian are trying to force people to cooperate. Local businesses are being bypassed for pressure.
The first to be repressed are food producers, to whom they come with weapons and demand to continue working.
The russian also set conditions – it will be possible to work only with a “temporary permit” to work from the “military-civil administrations”. In case of refusal, they promise to change the management and staff of enterprises.
Such actions by russian invaders in the temporarily occupied territories are a war crime defined by the Statute of the International Military Tribunal and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and a violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
Violations of property rights and threats to confiscate private property in occupied territories are contrary to Articles 31 and 33 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
They strictly prohibit the occupying State from applying coercion of a physical or moral nature to persons in the temporarily occupied territories, as well as from looting and confiscating property.