Criminal liability for the crime of so-called forced disappearance in the Ukrainian criminal law (Article 146-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)
Journal: UMCS Library (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University)
Year: 2025

In the article, the authors analyzed the statutory elements of a relatively new type of crime in Ukrainian criminal law, namely the so-called enforced disappearance (Article 146-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).The need to criminalize such an act resulted from Ukraine's accession on 17 June 2015 to the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (adopted in New York on 20 December 2006).Until then, the lack of appropriate regulation of the legal status of missing p