Ukrainian launches "Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers Crimes Archive" to preserve evidence of alleged violations during mobilization
Activist Stanislav Babunts announced on his Threads account the launch of the “Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers Crimes Archive.” According to him, this is a public online archive for preserving “evidence of violence and unlawful detentions during mobilization.”
“The archive is being created to preserve evidence for future accountability: complaints to the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights—Ed.) and the UN Human Rights Committee, as well as for human rights coalitions handling these cases,” the “Archive" description states.
Babunts explained that each entry in the archive will include a link to the video, an archived copy, a cryptographic hash, and the date of recording. Information can be submitted anonymously.
"The goal: to preserve evidence for years to come—for complaints to the ECHR and the UN Committee when the time for accountability comes after the war," the activist noted.
He explained the importance of his archive by pointing out that videos are deleted, channels are blocked, and witnesses go missing.
“You can only document things in a timely manner. A complaint to the ECHR is filed only after all national courts have been exhausted—that takes years. Without preserved evidence, there will be nothing to prove anything. The more witnesses there are for a single incident, the stronger the evidence. A second witness doesn’t just duplicate the evidence—they reinforce the record,” Stanislav added.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, acknowledged the phenomenon of “busification” and called for a change in the approach to mobilization.