Ukraine charges Russian judge with war crimes for sentencing captured soldier
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has gathered evidence against Alexei Magomadov, a judge of the Southern District Military Court of the Russian Federation, who sentenced a captured Ukrainian serviceman to 17 years in prison.
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According to the SBU, Magomadov was notified in absentia of suspicion of committing war crimes for his role in staging a show trial on September 11, 2024. Investigators said the judge used fabricated charges against a soldier of the National Guard of Ukraine, handing down a sentence to a strict regime colony.
The SBU stressed that Magomadov’s ruling continued a series of illegal verdicts by the Russian judicial system against Ukrainian prisoners of war, who, as combatants, are not subject to criminal prosecution under international law.
The charges against Magomadov cite violations of Articles 99 and 130 of the 1949 Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
- Earlier, the SBU filed similar charges against two other Russian judges, Konstantin Prostov and Sergei Obraztsov, accusing them of sentencing Ukrainian POWs to prison terms in violation of international law.
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