Evacuated residents of the temporarily occupied Mariupol said that the Russian military is interrogating children to check the veracity of their parents' testimony, Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said..

“First, the Rashists interrogate the parents, trying to find out the information they need.. And then, in their presence, they interrogate the children,” she wrote on the Telegram channel on Saturday, noting that they “are looking for disagreements in the words of parents and children.”.

This is happening, Denisova continued, in conditions and in a way that puts special moral and psychological pressure not only on parents, but also on children..

“Children are afraid and defenseless in front of the armed military,” she added..

Such interrogations of children violate articles 27, 31 of the UN Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, which provide for the right to be protected from violence and intimidation and the right to be protected from any coercion of a physical or moral nature in order to obtain any information.

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