Thursday, 01 April 2021, 12:37 Forty-three cases of enforced disappearances documented in Crimea over occupation 01.04.2021 10:48 Ukrinform The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has documented 43 cases of enforced disappearances in Crimea since the Russian occupation of the peninsula started in 2014. “Since the beginning of the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, in 2014, OHCHR has documented 43 cases of enforced disappearances in Crimea,” reads the report published by the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine on March 31. As noted, the enforced disappearances mostly took the form of abductions and kidnappings and the victims consisted of 39 men and 4 women.