Boris Babin, a legal advisor at BARRISTERS, LLC, spoke to students at Kharkiv Law University about the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people

On Wednesday, May 15, the research library of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University hosted an open lecture by Boris Babin, legal advisor at BARRISTERS, Dr. Boris Babin, Doctor of Law and professor, titled “The Legal Classification of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar People.”

According to Babin, the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people—an indigenous people—from their historical homeland in Crimea remains an ongoing (prolonged) international crime with no statute of limitations. He noted that Ukraine has the necessary substantive and procedural jurisdiction to investigate and definitively classify this act; the legal recognition of this deportation as genocide will become final once a corresponding decision by a competent court enters into force.

“Given Russia’s ongoing occupation of Crimea, the international community, UN agencies and bodies, the International Criminal Court, human rights organizations, historical institutions, representative and civil society organizations of the Crimean Tatar people, and other indigenous peoples of the world,” noted Boris Babina.

As a reminder, today the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and Vernadsky Tavria National University organized a panel discussion dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people. Students at the Crimean university were briefed on the deportation of the Crimean Tatars and the importance of investigating it as an act of genocide.