Russian court sentenced Mariupol defenders to long prison terms

Russian court sentenced Mariupol defenders to long prison terms

Key town of Mariupol conducted for long prison terms. The defendants were convicted of various offenses on Wednesday, including violent power and participation in a terrorist organization, and received punishments from 13 to 23 years, as the General Prosecutor's Office announced.

allegations against the AZOV regiment

Russia tries to present the Azov regiment as a Nazi and nationalistically shaped what the group denies. Last year the

The meaning of Mariupol

The city of Mariupol became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance after Ukrainian soldiers, including members of the azov-regiments , and civilians in the underneath parts of the Azovstal steel work, persuaded themselves to the Russian armed forces result.

judgment and the situation of the accused

The military court of the southern district in Rostow am Don announced the judgment against 11 people, while 12 accused personally appeared. According to reports, a member of Russian imprisonment died, while others were later exchanged for prisoners of war. The case concerned members of the AZOV regiment, which is now part of the National Guard of Ukraine, which were captured during the siege of Mariupol.

legal and humanitarian aspects

The public prosecutor found that the accused were "undertook actions that aimed at the violent overthrow of the constitutional order of Russia". Russia classified the 2022 Azov regiment as a terrorist group after it began the full invasion of Ukraine. The process, initially referred to as the "Case of the 24", included the Ukrainian prisoner of war Oleksandr Ishchenko, who died in a Russian detention center after he suffered an injury to the breast basket by "contact with a blunt object", according to the Azov commander Svyatoslav Palamar, who rely on a Ukrainian forensic expert.

human rights violations and political prisoners

The Russian human rights organization Memorial described the accused as political prisoners and reported on evidence of violations, including "cruel treatment, unbearable terms of detention, lack of normal food and medical care as well as insults, bullying, blows and torture".

diplomatic efforts to release the release

The verdict of the judgment fell together with the day of the National Guard of Ukraine, which President Wolodymyr Selenskyj used to praise the courage of the units of the national guard and to confirm diplomatic efforts to relieve all Ukrainian prisoners of war, including the Azov fighters. Selenskyj emphasized that Kiev "all Ukrainian warriors, especially the fighters of the National Guard, the defenders of Mariupol and the Azov fighters, who are unfortunately still in Russian captivity", does not forget. "We are working on all diplomatic levels to free them and bring them home," he said.