Ukraine has developed standards for investigating war crimes

The Prosecutor General's Office reported the information.

A team of experts and practitioners has developed two parts of methodological recommendations. The first of them - "Standards for Investigating War Crimes. General Part" - considers all the main war crimes recorded in Ukraine and offers clear algorithms for conducting procedural actions in these cases. A separate set of standards has also been developed for a specific type of crime - "Illegal deprivation of freedom and torture.”

The experts were brought together and the work was organized by Just Group, an organization that researches criminal justice and develops solutions for system transformation. The developed Standards were reviewed and approved by Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin.

"This is one of the first products of this scale and quality in the field of international crime investigation, developed together with practitioners for practitioners. Each stage of development was accompanied by testing among colleagues who work with criminal proceedings of this category on a daily basis. I believe that these documents will become an indispensable tool for disseminating the best approaches throughout the system of law enforcement agencies and prosecutors' offices," the Prosecutor General said.

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