04/05/2022 16:27

Commissioner: the occupiers are violating the rights of Ukrainian citizens to receive socially important information

The media reported that in the occupied city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region, the russian military has been jamming the mobile communications of Ukrainian mobile operators with the help of electronic warfare for about a week now.

The actions of the russian military violate the rights of Ukrainian citizens to receive socially important information, especially about the danger to life and health.

I emphasize that citizens must promptly receive information about the need and ways of evacuation, transportation, medical and psychological assistance.

Disabling mobile communication also deprives citizens of the means to communicate with their relatives and friends.

Such actions violate Articles 8 and 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during Russia's military invasion of Ukraine to take into account this fact of Russia's human rights violations in Ukraine.