Student from Crimea Demands IDP status in Court

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The first hearing in the District Court of Kyiv on the case of a student from Crimea who was denied registration as an internally displaced person (IDP), will takes place on June 9.

As reported on the official site of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, a student of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ruslan Nicheporuk, said that he was first registered at a dormitory after moving to Kyiv. When he then contacted the district Social Protection Office he was refused the IDP status.

“At first I was denied orally, not categorically, and without any justification. When I sent a written request to add me to the IDP registry, they told me that, according to some internal decision which they refer to but do not show, people who have moved and have received a residence permit in mainland Ukraine do not have the right to enter into the IDP registry,” says Nicheporuk.

Nicheporuk filed a lawsuit against the head of the district Social Protection Office for their denial to add him to the registry of displaced persons.

“This is the first case that made it to court and, if necessary, we will go to the European Court of Human Rights,” he said.

Nicheporuk states that he has previously appealed to the Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner, Valeriya Lutkovska, but, according to him, she said that “she sees no way out of the situation.”

According to him, there already are positive examples of other students, who live in dormitories in other cities, and even other districts of Kyiv, being entered into the IDP registry.

Earlier, during a monitoring visit of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and the Center for Civil Liberties in places of resettlement for people who left the ATO in Odessa and the Odessa region, it was discovered that several institutions do not provide the children with the right to education and free medicine, and social services do not provide psychological support.

Photo: Ruslan Nicheporuk, IDP, student of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv