{"id":2689,"date":"2019-08-19T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcstaging.co.uk\/ehrac\/?post_type=case-studies&#038;p=2689"},"modified":"2021-06-01T02:05:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T01:05:19","slug":"ponomarenko-and-others-v-ukraine-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"case-studies","link":"http:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/en_gb\/key-ehrac-cases\/ponomarenko-and-others-v-ukraine-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponomarenko and others v Ukraine and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_6adaddbfcc583\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row standard_section \"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap\"><div class=\"row-bg\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row-bg-overlay\" ><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-t-w-inherits=\"default\" data-bg-cover=\"\" data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-hover-bg=\"\" data-hover-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" ><div class=\"column-bg-overlay-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\"><div class=\"column-bg-overlay\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\r\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t<p>Five years since the Battle of Ilovaisk in eastern Ukraine, there is little sign of resolution of the armed conflict between Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russian backed \u2018separatists\u2019. Thousands of people continue to be subjected to a wide range of human rights abuses. The Ukrainian authorities have no control over the \u2018separatist\u2019 regions, and Russia denies any military involvement. Yet there is an overwhelming amount of video and documentary evidence online which attests to the presence of the Russian military in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In a bold move, EHRAC commissioned <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovaisk.forensic-architecture.org\/\">Forensic Architecture<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/forensic-architecture.org\/\">digital investigations agency based at Goldsmith\u2019s University<\/a> (London), to gather and present evidence of Russian military presence in and around Ilovaisk in August 2014. Forensic Architecture created an <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovaisk.forensic-architecture.org\/\">interactive online \u2018Platform\u2019<\/a>, presenting evidence identified and verified using open source research and specially programmed web-crawling algorithms. The Platform of video, photographic, text, media and other evidence demonstrates the presence of Russian military personnel and equipment in and around Ilovaisk. This use of machine learning to source evidence is innovative in human rights litigation, as is the presentation of this material on a digital platform, and opens up new possibilities for using technology to hold states to account for human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilovaisk.forensic-architecture.org\/\">Explore the Platform<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/352919810?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/352919810\">The Battle of Ilovaisk: Verifying Russian Military Presence in Eastern Ukraine<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/forensicarchitecture\">Forensic Architecture<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<p>EHRAC, together with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ulag.org.ua\/\">Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group<\/a> (ULAG), represent 25 Ukrainian volunteer combatants who fought in the Battle of Ilovaisk and were captured by Russian Armed Forces in August 2014 near Ilovaisk. They were unlawfully transferred to \u2018separatists\u2019 from the \u2018Donetsk People\u2019s Republic\u2019, who detained and ill-treated them until their release between December 2014 and June 2015. Ilovaisk is a strategically located city between the Russian border and Donetsk, and the Battle represents a high point of Russian military involvement in eastern Ukraine. We rely on the evidence in the Platform in litigating this particularly complex case against Russia and Ukraine, to support our legal arguments of Russian responsibility for the applicants\u2019 complaints.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovaisk.forensic-architecture.org\/\">Platform<\/a> maps Russian military presence in time and space, and displays distinct events as interconnected narratives, for example, the progress and capture of specific Russian tanks, and the capture of Russian paratroopers. Forensic Architecture used classifiers to identify certain types of objects (e.g. specific models of Russian tanks, weapons, uniforms, and military personnel). The evidence was rigorously verified, and then plotted in the interactive Platform.<\/p>\n<p>Forensic Architecture are well known for their digital investigations exposing human rights abuses around the world. The machine learning-led methodology used to create this Platform was designed specifically for this case, and is the first time that evidence of this type has been submitted to the European Court of Human Rights. We hope that this novel means of presenting evidence will facilitate the Court\u2019s assessment of the case by drawing the huge amount of data contained in hundreds of different sources into a coherent narrative.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_6adaddbfcc98a\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row standard_section \"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap\"><div class=\"row-bg\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row-bg-overlay\" ><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-t-w-inherits=\"default\" data-bg-cover=\"\" data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-hover-bg=\"\" data-hover-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" ><div class=\"column-bg-overlay-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\"><div class=\"column-bg-overlay\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sharing-default-minimal\"><div class=\"nectar-social default\" data-position=\"left\" data-color-override=\"override\"><div class=\"nectar-social-inner\"><a class='facebook-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'>  <i class='fa fa-facebook'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='twitter-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Tweet this'> <i class='fa fa-twitter'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Tweet<\/span> <\/a><a class='linkedin-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-linkedin'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlawful detention and ill-treatment of Ukrainian volunteer combatants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2892,"parent":0,"menu_order":248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"country":[26,37],"theme":[76],"category":[],"class_list":["post-2689","case-studies","type-case-studies","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","country-russia","country-ukraine","theme-conflict-and-occupation-abuses"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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