{"id":67362,"date":"2017-02-14T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=52591"},"modified":"2017-02-15T20:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T18:05:33","slug":"52591-u-poloni-lnr-dnr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/52591-u-poloni-lnr-dnr","title":{"rendered":"Human rights activists on difficulties related to liberation of Ukrainian soldiers captured by militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ipKEzCmy6po\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH IN ENGLISH<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>According<\/em> <em>to<\/em> <em>Ukrainian<\/em> <em>human<\/em> <em>rights<\/em> <em>activists, it is necessary to change format of negotiations on liberation of Ukrainian servicemen captured by militants and to amend Ukrainian legislation. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Status<\/strong> <strong>of captured Ukrainian<\/strong> <strong>soldiers<\/strong> <strong>\u201cup in the air\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coalition of human rights NGOs, including Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, media initiative \u201cZa Prava Liudyny\u201d (\u201cFor Human Rights\u201d) and Kharkiv Human Rights Group call that legal status of persons detained by members of the so-called \u201cDPR-LPR\u201d should be established as soon as possible in order to ensure appropriate defense of their rights. In addition, humanitarian and other aspects within Minsk andreements should be discussed separately, they stressed. \u201cWe suggest a new negotiations format that would ensure mechanisms of control and responsibility for arbitrary behavior, for violation or inobservance of the sides\u2019 commitments and would make it impossible to use humanitarian issues for someone\u2019s political benefits,\u201d stated \u00a0Nadiya Volkova, lawyer of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, representative of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the European Court of Human Rights, at a press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center. The activists are going to present detailed suggestions in the beginning of March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Establishment of legal status of these persons would define how to qualify their actions committed in captivity and what mechanisms within Ukrainian and international legislation should be applied to defend their rights, for instance, the Rome Statute and Geneva Conventions. In particular, these documents define priorities for prisoners liberation and prescribe commitments of the detaining power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur servicemen who are being held there should be sure that they will be defended. However, neither me nor other families whose fathers and sons are in captivity can see this at present,\u201d stressed Victoria Pantyushenko, whose husband, tanker Bogdan Pantyushenko, is a militants\u2019 prisoner since January 2015. She mentioned that two years have passed since Minsk agreements were signed. Absence of tangible progress with liberation of prisoners, ten of which are in detention for more than two years, show that this format does not work, she says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Negative precedents as a result of uncertainty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unclear status of <em>de<\/em> <em>facto<\/em> prisoners of war creates risks both for them and their relatives or volunteers who try to negotiate about their liberation as the mandated state authorities remain passive. One of examples is the case of Colonel Bezyazykov, currently accused under part 3 Art. 258 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine \u201cassistance in creation of a terrorist organization\u201d and Art. 111 \u201ctreason\u201d. \u201cThis results from absence of any legal status and legal mechanism, absence of law to regulate situation like this one and situation of many other people who are held as hostages on that [occupied] territory. To outline the legal framework and to define their status is the task of primary importance,\u201d stressed Vitaliy Tytych, lawyer of Ivan Bezyazykov.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Suggested changes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vitaliy Tytych reminded that international law experts have been addressing this problem since the very start of the conflict. \u201cIt\u2019s time to call things by their real names. If the international community has already recognized that Russia is the aggressor, it\u2019s time to adopt this term as well. [\u2026] Recognition of Russia as aggressor, imposition of martial law on a part of our territory and therefore the use of appropriate international law on that territory and demand to Russia to respect its commitments would be the most simple and the only possible solution to this problem,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moreover, it is important to amend Ukrainian legislation and fill in the existing gaps using international best practices. Nadiya Volkova noted that the state should elaborate a special strategy for liberation of prisoners, within which various state authorities would have particular areas of responsibility. Regarding the case of Col. Bezyazykov, Ukraine could analyze similar cases from American practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH IN ENGLISH According to Ukrainian human rights activists, it is necessary to change format of negotiations on liberation of Ukrainian servicemen captured by militants and to amend Ukrainian legislation. 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