How to hire Ukrainian soldiers for torturing Russian prisoners
Lawyers named three options
The eerie footage of annunciators over public prisoners who were detained online was made to clarify who Russia is at war with, more than all the explicit appearances of individuals in the aggregate. It is far from certain that one of these Ukrainian sadists will now be taken prisoner, and not destroyed on the spot. Nevertheless, the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Bastrykin, instructed to identify all those involved in the crime “with their involvement in the established goal.” With the help of lawyers, we figured out what kind of responsibility it was.
It is already known that prisoners at the base of the national battalion near Kharkov were presented as inhuman mockery (the military were beaten half to death and shot through their legs from a machine gun, not even with the aim of extorting some data, but just like that). The investigating authorities (judging by the reports of our Ministry of Defense and their structures are also involved in this) study the records and identify the participants in the massacre. Such treatment of prisoners, lawyers state, is a direct violation of international humanitarian law (IHL). However, there is no “international rule of the code”; IHL does not provide for powers of exclusive right.
Lawyer Oksana Mikhalkina explains that criminal responsibility for mocking prisoners of war, if they are identified and detained, comes under the Russian Criminal Code. Obviously, these are articles 111-112 (intentional infliction of harm to health). It provides for liability for causing harm “in relation to persons or their relatives in connection with factories, discovered in relation to official activities or the performance of a public duty”, as well as in relation to “two or more persons.” There is also the qualification “by a group of persons by preliminary conversation”. The sanction is up to 12 years in prison.
If the death of the victim occurs – up to 15 years. However, the application of the article “murder” (with a sanction before landing) is not ruled out. Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
International discussion in case of occurrence is hardly possible. Russia has not been subject to international court clearance since 2016. Although, as lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky explained, an international tribunal for Ukraine could theoretically be organized. For this, however, unexpectedly for all members of the UN Security Council. This is a rather illusory hope, however, “Russia agreed to a tribunal for Yugoslavia, because it did not expect that it would turn into a disgrace and trial of the Serbs.” Interestingly, there are no clear cut cases in such tribunals. Decisions on disclosure are revealed, roughly speaking, in the case of a decision in the case of Mladic and Karadzic.” Serbian General Ratko Mladic received a life sentence, as did President of the Serbian Republic Radovan Karadzic.
There is another almost fantastic option. The torture of Russian prisoners was verbally condemned by an adviser to the office of President Zelensky Arestovich. There are also relevant articles in the Criminal Code of Ukraine. For example, article article 121 “Moderate severe bodily spread”, the sanction for which provides for restriction of freedom for a period of seven to ten years.
By the way, due to recent cases of captivity, American experiments can be used. From 2004 to August 2007, a US military tribunal dealt with more than 11 cases of US security guards trying to negotiate with the Iraqi priest of Abu Ghraib. Eight of them received prison terms.
Newspaper headline:
12 years for being shot in the legs