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Strictly adhere to the ceasefire and security provisions of the Minsk
agreements and to ‘unlimited’ ceasefire and disengagement of forces agreed within the
Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk;
ensure full compliance with the international humanitarian law
principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution, including by immediately
ceasing the use of weapons with indiscriminate effects in populated areas, particularly
weapons with a wide impact area;
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
schools and kindergartens;
ensure free and non-discriminatory access of all civilians to official
EECPs, continue improving conditions for safe and quick crossing of the contact line
by civilians and facilitate the opening of additional EECPs;
take all feasible measures to protect civilian property from damage and
destruction, and refrain from looting.
Refrain from any form of forced movement of civilians, and comply with
the obligation of non-refoulement.
114. 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:
uphold all its obligations as duty bearer under international human
rights law in Crimea and respect obligations of an occupying Power pursuant to
international humanitarian law; refrain from enforcing, or retroactively applying,
Russian Federation legislation in Crimea;
ensure proper and unimpeded access of international human rights
monitoring missions and human rights non-governmental organisations to Crimea,
pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 71/205, 72/190, and 73/263;
refrain from imposing Russian Federation citizenship on Crimean
residents, including detainees;
end the practice of torture, ill-treatment, and sexual violence to compel
apprehended persons to self-incriminate or “cooperate” with law enforcement;
conduct effective investigations into all allegations of torture, illtreatment, arbitrary arrests and detentions;
disclose the number and identity of individuals deported from Crimea to
the Russian Federation to serve criminal sentences and take immediate actions to
voluntarily return such individuals to Crimea; ensure unimpeded family and
Ukrainian consular visits to such detainees;
end the practice of placing detainees in punishment cells as a method of
intimidation;
ensure the availability of adequate health-care resources in places of
detention in Crimea; provide detainees with swift access to medical examination by an
independent health facility upon their request.
uphold the rights, in accordance with international law and until their
release, of Ukrainian prisoners and detainees in Crimea and in the Russian
Federation, including those on hunger strike, and respect the United Nations Standard
Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules); 98
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General Assembly resolution 70/175, annex.
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