Moskalkova appealed to the UN over the hearings on the ban of the UOC Kyiv Metropolia
On October 6, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Tatiana Moskalkova, announced that she had contacted the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, in connection with the court hearings on the termination of the activities of the Kiev Metropolia of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).
"The international community must condemn discrimination against people on religious grounds, anti-church policies in Ukraine, and attempts, in fact, to erase the millennial spiritual and cultural heritage of an entire nation!" wrote Moskalkova in her Telegram channel.
The Ombudsman called the appointment of hearings in the case of the termination of the activities of the Kiev Archdiocese another act of barbarism, religious discrimination and obscurantism. She stressed that freedom of religion is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The head of the Ukrainian State Service for Ethnopolitics, Viktor Yelensky, announced in September that he had filed a lawsuit to terminate the activities of the Kiev metropolitan canonical UOC. Later, the permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) reported that Russia would raise the issue of increasing pressure on the canonical UOC at a meeting of the Permanent council.
On October 1, UN experts stated that attempts to ideologically justify the dissolution of religious organizations in Ukraine risk criminalizing freedom of thought, religion, and beliefs. They noted that these rights are "an integral part of freedom of thought, conscience and religion, enshrined in international standards."
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