On July 11, the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) within the framework of its 27th annual session adopted the Berlin Declaration and a number of resolutions included in this declaration, as well as a resolution on violations of human rights in Russian-occupied Crimea.

The OSCE PA official website declared it.

The resolution prepared by the Ukrainian delegation for the Assembly is called «Continuing violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine)».

The declaration says that the OSCE PA strongly condemns the illegal Russian occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol city, and again calls on Russia to abolish the attempt of peninsula’s annexation.

«The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly condemns violations, abuses, measures and practices of discrimination against the residents of temporarily occupied Crimea, including Crimean Tatars, as well as Ukrainians and persons belonging to other ethnic and religious groups, by the Russian occupation authorities», — the document says.

The declaration says that the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly calls on the Russian Federation «to immediately and unconditionally release the Crimean activists Oleg Sientsov, Alexander Kolchenko, Alexei Chirny, Remzi Memetov, Seyran Saliev, Vladimir Balukh, Alexander Kostenko, Muslim Aliyev, Emir-Usen Kuku, Vadim Siruk, Arsen Dzhepparov, Refat Alimov and other Ukrainian citizens who were illegally detained or imprisoned on trumped-up charges by de facto authorities in the occupied Crimea».

Moreover, the OSCE parliamentarians from the participating states appealed to the Russian Federation to immediately cancel the decision declaring the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people an extremist organization and banning its activities, as well as to withdraw the decision prohibiting the Mejlis leaders entering Crimea.

«The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly calls on the Russian Federation to ensure the protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, in particular, inter alia, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, freedom of the media and freedom of expression, access to information, freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, freedom of movement, residence, citizenship, labor rights, property rights and land rights, access to health and education and all other civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights the declaration states.

Also, parliamentarians reiterated its demand toward the Russian Federation to stop the illegal persecution of individuals who oppose Crimean occupation, terminate the eradication of education in the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages, terminate the policy of changing the demographic situation Crimea’s population by resettling its own population to the peninsula from Russian territory.

Earlier, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Committee supported the draft resolution on human rights violations in Crimea.