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2023-10-27 International-UN-NGOs
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Torture and murder. Germany is investigating Russian crimes in Ukraine
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] The Clooney Foundation for Justice, the charity of lawyer Amal Clooney and her husband, Hollywood actor George Clooney, has asked German prosecutors to investigate three counts of alleged war crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.
The applications were submitted to the German prosecutor's office, since German law enshrines the principle of universal jurisdiction - the country's law enforcement agencies can begin a criminal investigation into crimes committed outside Germany, regardless of the citizenship of the suspects or victims or whether any of them have ties to Germany. Moreover, in these three cases specifically, some families of the victims or victims live in Germany, while others are ready to come and testify in the country.
The suspects are senior and middle-level commanders of the Russian army.
COLLECTION OF EVIDENCE
CFJ represents 16 victims and victims' families.
Since the beginning of the war, Docket, a separate project of the foundation consisting of international lawyers and investigators, has been collecting evidence and preparing materials detailing crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.
Their work included numerous field investigations in Ukraine, as well as extensive analysis of open source data.
As the foundation explains, if German authorities consider the evidence presented against specific people to be convincing, they can open a criminal investigation and issue arrest warrants for the suspects, which will allow them to be detained, extradited and prosecuted. Arrest warrants can be executed in countries outside Germany through the Europol and Interpol systems. The International Criminal Court can also issue arrest warrants for key suspects.
German courts occupy a leading position in the world in investigating international crimes in accordance with the principle of universal jurisdiction. They were investigating crimes committed by the Islamic State group against the Yazidis, an ethno-religious minority in Iraq.
WHAT KIND OF CASES
The first case concerns the shelling of the village of Sergeevka in the Odessa region with X-22 missiles in the summer of 2022, which killed 22 people and injured 40 more. As noted in the collected dossier, they were all civilians, and there were no military installations around. The victims are relatives of the 11 victims, as well as three survivors, two of whom are children. According to the foundation, the use of Kh-22 missiles, which have low accuracy and high power, may be classified as prohibited methods of warfare. The high command of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation may be responsible for this.
The second case concerns the detention, torture and murder of four men in the Kharkov region. They were detained in March 2022 by the forces of the self-proclaimed “LPR”, after which nothing was known about their fate for a long time, and a few months later their bodies were discovered. The victims are the families of the three killed, and the suspects are four commanders of the “LPR” and Russian army units who controlled the surrounding territory.
The third case concerns murders, torture, sexualized violence and robberies in March 2022 in the Kyiv region. The case records the murders of at least 28 people, five cases of rape, and the torture of eight people. The victims in the case include the family of one of the killed and a man who was detained and tortured, and five Russian commanders who led units that participated in the occupation are suspected of crimes.
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