Medvedev, Solovyov, and Simonyan were referred to the International Criminal Court

Human rights activists appealed to the International Criminal Court to punish Russian warmongers.

Ex-president of the Russian Federation Dmytro Medvedev , propagandists Volodymyr Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan, as well as other Russian “hawks” may become objects of investigation by the International Criminal Court for inciting hatred in public space. This is reported by “Voice of America” .

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), together with the Kharkiv Human Rights Group and other human rights defenders, sent an appeal to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Human rights activists emphasize that a number of Russian citizens are engaged in inciting hatred in public space, which is a crime against humanity.

In addition to Medvedev, Solovyov and Simonyan, the head of the state media group Rossiya Segodnya Dmytro Kiselyov and TV presenter Serhiy Mardan also appear in the appeal. According to human rights activists, these individuals incited hatred against the Ukrainian civilian population, thereby encouraging and contributing to war crimes committed by Russian soldiers in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Another figure in the appeal is Oleksiy Gromov, the first deputy head of the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, who is considered the organizer of this hate campaign in the Russian media space.

“Every day Ukrainians die under Russian bombs; peaceful Ukrainians under occupation are detained and tortured, Ukrainian children are deported to Russia. (…) These serious violations of human rights would not be possible without the dehumanizing campaign of Russian propagandists, who are just as guilty as those who pull the trigger, killing Ukrainian civilians,” FIDH vice-president Oleksandra Matviychuk said.

(C)UNIAN 2024