Russian Federation - Human Rights Committee - Death Penalty - February 2015
Document: Russian Federation - Human Rights Committee - Death Penalty - February 2015 (PDF 336.0 KB)
Country: Russian Federation
Type: Intl Mechanism Submission
Issues: Death Penalty, Extrajudicial Killing, International Advocacy
Mechanism: UN Human Rights Committee
The Russian Federation backs the separatist rebels who control parts of Eastern Ukraine. Those rebels have established their own quasi-judicial proceedings by which individuals
have been sentenced to death and executed. There are credible reports that those rebels, as
well as “self-defense” militia groups in Crimea, are also engaging in extrajudicial and
summary executions of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers. Russia has a due diligence
obligation under the Covenant to prevent private parties such as these separatist rebels and
“self-defense” groups, over whom the Russian Government is able to exert control, from
violating Articles 6 and 14 of the Covenant.
