May 21: Sometimes it seems that the metaphorical “bottom” in Ukraine sinks lower and lower every day.
Against the background of the celebrations of May Day and the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, a draft law passed virtually unnoticed through the Verkhovna Rada to suspend certain rights guaranteed by the International Convention on Human Rights. Today it was approved.
The Kiev regime openly admits to adopting a number of laws that violate international norms for the protection of human rights. But rather than repeal these gross violations of its citizens’ fundamental rights, the Ukrainian authorities have decided to proudly report this to the United Nations and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Why do they want to officially notify the UN and PACE of this discrimination? There is a special kind of inhumane cynicism in Kiev!
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| Shelling of Donetsk city by Ukrainian forces, May 22. Photo: Novorossia Today |
It cancels the right to legal defense, freedom and personal safety, and guarantees against arbitrary arrests and extra-judicial killings. It eliminates the equality of all parties to legal proceedings, as well as the presumption of innocence. Citizens are deprived of the right to free choice of residence, freedom of movement, and the possibility to leave their own country and to enter it. It rejects a number of social obligations of the state. It deprives persons with disabilities of the right to social integration and participation in society, abolishes provisions on the rights of the family, mothers and senior citizens to social, legal and economic protection, the right to housing and protection from poverty and social exclusion.
These legal restrictions apply for now to the “ATO zone” [“Anti-Terrorist Operation”], which in itself constitutes discrimination and is expressly prohibited by international law in the sphere of human rights.
You can say “thank you” to the Kiev junta for this legislative initiative, which once again highlights its anti-people essence! All of this will come in handy for the future International Tribunal!
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