The US State Department discovered censorship and human rights violations in Ukraine
Serious violations of human rights, as well as abuses related to government corruption and censorship, continue in Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is stated in the Report on Human Rights Activities, released on Friday, April 20, by the US State Department based on the results of 2017.
It is noted that a significant part of these violations relate to the conflict in Donbass.
“The most significant human rights concerns included unlawful executions and politically motivated disappearances in the context of the conflict in Donbass; torture; and harsh and life-threatening conditions in prisons and detention centers; arbitrary arrests and detentions; lack of independence of judges,” the document notes.
Other abuses included “widespread government corruption; censorship; blocking websites; the government's failure to bring to justice those responsible for violence against journalists and anti-corruption activists; and violence against ethnic minorities and LGBT people.”
As the report notes, the government generally fails to take adequate action to prosecute or punish most officials who commit abuses, resulting in impunity.
The US State Department also presented a separate section on human rights violations in Crimea. It is noted that the investigation into possible human rights violations in Crimea and Donbass remained incomplete due to insufficient control of the Ukrainian government in these territories.
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