Students in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are forced to donate blood en masse for the wounded occupiers. This was announced by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova in the Telegram ,
KYIV. UkraineGate , 29 , April , 2022 | Ukraine News .
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“The occupying authorities in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions are forcing students of higher educational institutions to donate blood en masse for the wounded occupiers,” Denisova said.
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According to the Ombudsman, it became known about “700 cases of forced blood donation in such institutions as Donetsk National University, Donetsk National Technical University, Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Donbas Law Academy, Gorky Donetsk National Medical University, Luhansk Medical University, Luhansk Agrarian University, Luhansk Pedagogical University, Luhansk Academy of Internal Affairs “.
The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights stressed that Russia’s actions violated Article 11 of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, concerning the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), of June 8, 1977.
“I appeal to the UN Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations during the Russian military invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of human rights violations in Ukraine,” she said.
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The losses of the Russian occupiers since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine have reached about 23 thousand people.
Source: Ukrgate
