U.N. rights office ‘very concerned’ about planned trials of Ukrainian POWs

Geneva – The U.N. human rights workplace expressed concern on Tuesday about plans by Russian-backed authorities to attempt Ukrainian prisoners of conflict (POWs) within the port metropolis of Mariupol, probably inside days, saying such a course of might itself quantity to a conflict crime.

The Russian-backed authorities look like putting in metallic cages in a corridor in Mariupol as a part of plans to ascertain what they have been calling an “worldwide tribunal,” Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the Workplace of the U.N. Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), informed a briefing.