Ukraine’s ban on adult men leaving the country faces growing legal challenges

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Several petitions have been launched calling on the government to overturn the measure, and a group of lawyers has filed lawsuits arguing that it violates the constitution

. One lawyer has also asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, to push Kyiv to drop the rule.

It has remained in force, although there are several exemptions, including for men who have a medical condition, international students, single fathers and those caring for three or more children. Research by political scientist Adam Jones has found that conquering forces typically view civilian men between the ages of 15 and 55 as a danger. Of the 458 people killed during Russia’s occupation of the Kyiv suburb of Bucha last March, 366 were men. There have also been reports that Russian soldiers have forced Ukrainian men to fight on the front lines.

Although he normally practises real estate law, Mr. Busanov became so incensed by the ban that he took two cases on a pro bono basis to fight it. His clients are a couple of men in their 40s who moved to central Ukraine from Donetsk and Mariupol because of the fighting there. Now they can’t find work and both have wives and two children to support.

He travelled to southern Ukraine, talked his way past Russian checkpoints and got into Crimea. From there he spent four days on a bus through Russia to the border with Latvia, then waited almost two days to cross. He eventually made it to Poland, where he is waiting for a Canadian visa. He told his wife that three-quarters of the people on the bus were men from Ukraine.

 

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