Submission to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court concerning the crime against humanity (Enforced disappearance of persons)

This communication under Article 15 of the Rome Statute to the International Criminal Court (Art. 15 Communication) concerns Russia’s widespread and systematic practice of enforced disappearances committed by Russian military.

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Submission to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court concerning the crime against humanity (Enforced disappearance of persons) allegedly committed during the war in Ukraine / Mykola Komarovskyi, Hanna Ovdienko, Yevgeniy Zakharov; CO “Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group”. — Kharkiv: LLB “Human Rights Publisher”, 2024. — 106 p. ISBN 978-617-8186-25-8 The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) submits an Article 15 communication to the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which contains information of evidentiary value concerning a widespread and systematic practice of alleged enforced disappearances committed by Russian military, its authorities and affiliated militia group in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

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