"At only 28, the human rights lawyer Kateryna Rashevska has become the public face of Ukraine's campaign to repatriate children forcibly deported to Russia. She knows this means she is being watched. The past two years have seen the Ukrainian addressing the UN security council, the US Senate and writing submissions to the international criminal court (ICC), which then issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children."
"I wouldn't say that Russians are afraid of me, but they clearly monitor everything we do and publish. I'm not naive about what would happen to me if they [the Russians] took over Kyiv, says Rashevska, who is the lead on international justice at Ukraine's Regional Center for Human Rights (RCHR). If Russian forces pushed farther inland, towards my home village, I would be the first to fail their filtration' procedures"
"If Russian forces pushed farther inland, towards my home village, I would be the first to fail their filtration' procedures In a recent interview, Maria Lvova-Belova [Russia's children's commissioner] referred point by point to the issues we had been raising, even using the same language we used almost as if she were responding directly to our work."
Kateryna Rashevska, aged 28, leads Ukraine's efforts to repatriate children forcibly deported to Russia and heads international justice at the Regional Center for Human Rights. She has presented evidence to the UN Security Council, the US Senate, and the ICC, which issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin over unlawful deportations. Rashevska is actively documented and monitored by Russian authorities and has wiped devices to protect survivors and contacts. She warned that Russian occupation would trigger filtration procedures that would endanger her and others. She also noted Russian officials echoing language used to document the deportations.
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