Here's more from RFE/RL's news desk on the UN's Crimea report:
UN Says Russia's Occupation Of Crimea Marked By 'Grave Human Rights Violations'
A UN human rights report says Russia’s occupation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula has been marked by disappearances and torture, infringements of the Geneva Convention, and violations of international law.
The human rights situation in Crimea "has significantly deteriorated under Russian occupation," the UN Human Rights Office says in the report issued on September 25.
It says that "grave human rights violations, such as arbitrary arrests and detentions, enforced disappearances, ill-treatment and torture, and at least one extra-judicial execution were documented."
The report also says the Geneva Convention and other international humanitarian and human rights laws were violated when the laws of Ukraine were substituted with Russian laws in Crimea, including the imposition of Russian citizenship on tens of thousands of residents.
It said the imposition of Russian citizenship had "a particularly harsh impact" on residents "who formally rejected citizenship; civil servants who had to renounced their Ukrainian citizenship or lose their jobs, and Crimean residents who did not meet the legal criteria" for Russian citizenship and "became foreigners."
It said people without Russian citizenship who hold a residency permit in Crimea are now "deprived of important rights" and "do not enjoy equality before the law."
It said they "cannot own agricultural land, vote and be elected, register a religious community, apply to hold a public meeting, hold positions in the public administration, and reregister their private vehicle on the peninsula."
The report says hundreds of prisoners and pretrial detainees "have been transferred to the Russian Federation" in a practice that is "strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law."