A/HRC/40/CRP.3 on 17 January 2019, the Parliament adopted amendments setting out a procedure for voluntary change of denomination by religious communities. 112 D. Discrimination, hate speech, racially-motivated violence and manifestations of intolerance 92. OHCHR continued documenting violations related to discrimination, hate speech and/or violence, targeting members of minority groups or those holding alternative or minority opinions. Among two incidents documented that occurred during the reporting period, one involved threats and another direct violence by members of extreme right-wing groups. The failure of the law enforcement to prevent violence, to properly classify these violations as hate crimes, and to effectively investigate and prosecute these crimes violates the right to non-discrimination and creates an environment of impunity. It also denies victims of these attacks equal access to justice. 93. Investigations and prosecution of several attacks against Roma people still lack progress.113 Positively, on 28 December 2018, prosecutors of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office charged a man responsible for the killing of a young Roma man outside Lviv in June 2018.114 In contrast, the Holosiivsky district court of Kyiv cancelled on procedural grounds the note of suspicion against an alleged perpetrator in another violent attack against a Roma settlement in Kyiv in April 2018.115 94. OHCHR documented the case of a prisoner with pro-Ukrainian views, who served his sentence in a penal colony in territory controlled by ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ between 2014 and 2018. The prisoner had conflicts with the colony administration for his political views and speaking Ukrainian. The colony administration staff reportedly forced the prisoner “to drop his nationalistic views”, threatened and beat him. In 2016, the colony guards allegedly beat him with batons as ordered by the colony head. After this incident, the prisoner was held in the isolation cell for a year. He said that as a result of his longlasting intimidation and ill-treatment, he tried to commit suicide in December 2017.116 VII. Human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation 95. The overall human rights situation in Crimea continued to be marked by restrictions in the exercise of fundamental freedoms and the lack of effective remedies to seek justice. In addition, the continuing failure of the Russian Federation to acknowledge its status as an occupying power in Crimea has resulted in further violations of international humanitarian law committed by its State actors during the reporting period, failing to recognize and ensure obligations related to applicable occupation law. 96. OHCHR continued to record human rights violations, including restrictions on freedoms of opinion, expression, and religion or belief, and violations of international humanitarian law in Crimea. In total, OHCHR documented 38 violations during the reporting period, and of this number 25 violations occurred within the reporting period; 112 113 114 115 116 24 According to the law, a decision to change subordination is made by two thirds of the community’s quorum. The amendments reaffirm the principle of religious communities’ independent determination of their membership and establish a moratorium on sale or other transfer of the religious community’s property until the registration process is completed. See OHCHR Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, 16 May to 15 August 2018, para. 91. See OHCHR Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, 16 August to 15 November 2018, para 82. On 25 February, the Kyiv court of appeal will hear the prosecutors’ appeal of the Holosiivsky district court decision to cancel the notice of suspicion to the alleged perpetrator. OHCHR interviews, 18 December 2018.