The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), jointly with the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) and the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), its Ukrainian member organisations, as well as a Russian NGO, have submitted a Communication to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging that six Russian nationals have committed the Crime Against Humanity of Persecution against Ukrainians in the form of hate speech.
This initiative exposes the criminal nature of hate speech disseminated by Russian propagandists to highlight the role of hate speech in the commission of other international crimes committed in Ukraine and to compel the ICC to investigate these speech acts further.
