Genocide in Mariupol. Legal grounds for investigating the international crime

Описание: Genocide in Mariupol. Legal grounds for investigating the international crime


Participants:
– Mykhailo Romanov, expert at the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, one of the authors of the complaint to the ICC;
– Yevgeniy Zakharov, Director at the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group;
– Tetyana Samoderzhenkova, Coordinator at the Mariupol Office of Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union. co-author of the complaint;
– Mykola Komarovskyi, lawyer at the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, author of the complaint’s section on the deportation of children;
– Kateryna Buriakovska, Assistant Professor at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, co-author of the complaint;
– Oleksandra Romantsova, Executive Director at the Centre for Civil Liberties;

Why this is interesting:
The T4P initiative (Tribunal for putin) is to present the first document with legal arguments that russia is committing genocide in Ukraine. A large complaint will be published in Ukrainian and English and filed to the International Criminal Court.


At the event, the authors of the complaint will talk about various aspects of the genocide – mass murders of Mariupol residents, deportation of children, infiltration camps, etc. – and about the importance of recognizing russia's actions as genocide and what needs to be done to make this happen.

Kyiv, 28th of August, 2023