KHERSON — An international team of legal advisers has been working with local prosecutors in Ukraine’s recaptured city of Kherson in recent days as they began…
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“We’ve come down here for a three-day mission to support the Office of the Prosecutor General , and specifically the team investigating conflict-related sexual violence,” said Julian Elderfield, one of the legal advisers who took part in the Kherson visit that ran from Thursday to Saturday.Article content
More than 50,000 alleged incidents of international crimes have been reported by Ukraine’s prosecutor general since Russia’s full-scale invasion.Article content Ukraine’s special war crimes unit for conflict-related sexual violence is also collecting video and photographic evidence that could help them identify perpetrators for future prosecutions.
“Аccording to the results of this trip, we discovered the facts of conflict-related sexual violence and the information has been entered into the unified register of pre-trial investigations.” “We find someone, conduct investigative actions, question, find information and then look for other people … We conduct them despite the situation, despite the shelling,” he said.
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