Send Letter eng
Advocacy

MIHR and former Kremlin prisoners Anna Olsen and Lyudmila Huseynova in the USA took part in a discussion of lawyers working with international crimes

MIHR’s advocacy trip to the United States continues. On February 22, we participated in an event in New York organized by the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice and the New York State Bar Association.

During the event, experts discussed the crime of aggression, recent developments at the International Criminal Court, methods of documentation and gathering evidence of atrocities, and challenges in using such evidence.

Among the panel discussion participants were:

  • Patrick Keenan, Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
  • Jack Mayerhofer, Deputy Executive Director, The Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities
  • Leila Nadya Sadat, James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Washington University School of Law Director, Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Fellow, Schell Human Rights Center, Yale Law School
  • Jennifer Trahan, Professor, NYU Center for Global Affairs, Convenor, Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression

Anna Ogrenchuk, the Ukrainian Bar Association president, also joined the event.

Former prisoners Anna Olsen, a combat medic, and Lyudmila Huseynova, a volunteer, were invited as special guests. Anna spent half a year in captivity, Lyudmila — three years. They told experts about what they had to go through in captivity: beatings, torture, and lack of decent detention conditions.

The speech of Anna Olsen and Lyudmila Huseynova as direct victims of the crimes of the Russian Federation enriched the discussion of experts who work with international crimes.

We thank the organizers of the event and the Ukrainian Bar Association for their support. We continue to involve the international community in solving the issue of Russia’s illegal holding of Ukrainian civilian hostages.

0 Comments

Leave a comment

Your e-mail address will not be published. Mandatory fields are marked *

Similar posts
Advocacy
Ukrainian human rights activists propose a new tactic for the OSCE to free Ukrainian civilians abducted by Russia

Torture, isolation, murder, and gloom of Russian prisons. In Vienna, Ukrainian human rights activists told the world about the fate of thousands of civilians who have become hostages of the occupation regime. The focus was on the stories of illegally detained journalists, mayors, activists, and new proposals for their release.

7 May 2025

Advocacy
Discussion on Russian Reparations for Missing Persons in Ukraine held in The Hague. Here are the four key points

Reparations represent a state’s commitment to compensate for harm or loss inflicted by its breach of international law. They are a vital component of restoring justice for victims of armed conflicts and serve as a safeguard against the recurrence of crimes in the future. These issues were the focus of the expert discussion in The Hague, which addressed legal and institutional responses to securing reparations for missing persons in Ukraine.

10 April 2025

Advocacy
Exhibition on Ukrainian Civilians Illegally Detained by Russia Opens in Budapest

An exhibition titled Civilians in Captivity: Stories of Unjust Detentions has opened in the capital of Hungary. Organized by the Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR) in partnership with the State Self-Government of Ukrainians in Hungary (SSUUH), the exhibition sheds light on one of the least known humanitarian crises of Russia’s war against Ukraine — enforced disappearances and the unlawful detention of Ukrainian civilians from occupied territories.

28 March 2025

More articles
Our social media
Relevant publications
More articles
Prisoners of war
MIHR contributes to the development of a map documenting the locations where the Azov fighters are held in Russian captivity

28 May 2025 saw a presentation of the Inferno project’s website and interactive map in Kyiv. This initiative is led by the Azovstal Defenders’ Families Association and the International Cooperation Department of the 1st Azov Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine. The Media Initiative for Human Rights has joined the project as one of the partners by providing data to create the map of detention facilities.

29 May 2025

Enforced disappearances
The body of a man with a gunshot wound to the head, who went missing in 2022, was found in a field in the Kherson region. His friend is still missing

Both men were from the Kherson region. On 26 March 2022, they set out together from Kyiv to return home. Ruslan headed for the Bilozerka district, and Khidir headed for the Chaplynka district. Kherson region was already under occupation at that time, but civilians could still move in and out.

28 May 2025

Advocacy
Ukrainian human rights activists propose a new tactic for the OSCE to free Ukrainian civilians abducted by Russia

Torture, isolation, murder, and gloom of Russian prisons. In Vienna, Ukrainian human rights activists told the world about the fate of thousands of civilians who have become hostages of the occupation regime. The focus was on the stories of illegally detained journalists, mayors, activists, and new proposals for their release.

7 May 2025

More articles