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p)
ensure prompt trials by acting in good faith and avoiding
unreasonable delays.
To State and local authorities:
q)
publicly and systematically condemn all acts of violence directed at
groups or individuals on the basis of race, sex, religion, language, national or
ethnic origin, political or social opinion, sexual orientation, gender identity, place
of residence, or any other grounds for discrimination prohibited under
international human rights standards. Public expressions inciting violence
towards any group should be equally condemned;
r)
refrain from passing local acts or implementing local policies which
discriminate against groups or individuals based on grounds prohibited by
international human rights law, including sexual orientation or gender identity.
134. To the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ and self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk
people’s republic’:
a)
ensure unimpeded and confidential access by OHCHR and other
international monitors to all places of deprivation of liberty in territory they
control, and allow confidential interviews with detainees in accordance with
international standards;
b)
refrain from the practices of ‘preventive arrest’ and
‘administrative arrest’, and provide information on the whereabouts of all
detainees to their families and lawyers;
c)
immediately halt the practice of torture and ill-treatment of
detainees in the custody of, or under ‘investigation’ by the ‘ministries of state
security’ and refrain from using evidence or confessions obtained as a result of
torture and ill-treatment;
d)
treat all persons in detention humanely in all circumstances and
ensure conditions of detention are in accordance with international standards;
e)
respect the rights to freedoms of expression and opinion, peaceful
assembly, association and religion or belief;
f)
camera;
end the practice of processing of conflict-related ‘criminal cases��� in
135. To all parties involved in the hostilities in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including
the Ukrainian Armed Forces and armed groups of self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s
republic’ and self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk people’s republic’:
a)
strictly adhere to the ceasefire and security provisions of the Minsk
agreements and to ‘unlimited’ ceasefire agreed within the Trilateral Contact
Group in Minsk;
b)
ensure full compliance with international humanitarian law
principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution, including by
immediately ceasing the use of weapons with indiscriminate effect in populated
areas, particularly weapons with a wide impact area;
c)
take all possible measures to minimize harm to the civilian
population, including by positioning military objects outside of densely
populated areas, and refraining from deliberately targeting civilians or civilian
infrastructure, such as water facilities and power lines;
136. In the context of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol,
Ukraine, temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation to the Government of the Russian
Federation:
a)
uphold its obligations as duty bearer under international human
rights law in Crimea and respect obligations of an occupying Power pursuant to
international humanitarian law;
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