The Charkiw Human Rights Protection Group [KHPG], working in cooperation with the German NGO ‘European Exchange’ and representatives of NGOs from the Russian Federation and Germany with the support of the German Foreign Ministry, carried out an international mission to monitor human rights in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in the areas that have been returned to Ukrainian control. The aim of the visit was to investigate the situation in regards to the observance of personal, political and social rights on territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The mission involved three visits to the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts: October 16, November 16-18, and December 25. The monitoring group documented cases of rights infringements in the social sphere, with respect to unlawful detention, unlawful deprivation of liberty, unlawful seizure of people’s property, and disappearances.

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