The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) does not rule out that searches recently conducted in the premises of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate " This is what the UN report on the human rights situation in Ukraine over the past six months, including January 31, 2023, says..

Thus, the UN recalled that the SBU conducted searches in monasteries, offices, educational institutions and other institutions belonging to the UOC-MP. Searches were carried out in Kyiv, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Dnipro, Khmelnitsky, as well as in Cherkasy, Volyn, Kherson, Ternopil, Poltava and Transcarpathian regions.

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According to the UN, in some cases, SBU officers interrogated clergy using a polygraph..

" OHCHR also recalls the need to ensure that all individuals facing criminal charges enjoy the full range of inalienable rights to a fair trial,"

Recall that the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Epiphanius, recently emphasized: no one will close the Holy Dormition Monastery in the Lavra, and the language of worship will be Ukrainian and Old Slavonic.

Read more about the situation around the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in the article by Ekaterina Shchetkina \! Will the Ukrainian authorities be able to liberate the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra from the UOC-MP? " U.A..