{"id":51764,"date":"2022-08-24T15:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T22:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51764"},"modified":"2022-08-24T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T22:41:41","slug":"the-kremlins-illegitimate-tribunals-in-mariupol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51764","title":{"rendered":"The Kremlin\u2019s Illegitimate Tribunals in Mariupol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>08\/24\/2022 05:30 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>Ned Price, Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>By planning to hold so-called \u201ctribunals\u201d in Russia-controlled Mariupol against Ukraine\u2019s brave defenders, the Kremlin is attempting to deflect responsibility for President Putin\u2019s war of aggression and distract from overwhelming evidence of the atrocities Russian forces have committed in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The planned show trials are illegitimate and a mockery of justice, and we strongly condemn them. All members of Ukraine\u2019s armed forces, including domestic and foreign volunteers incorporated into the armed forces, are entitled to prisoner of war status if they are captured and must be afforded the treatment and protections commensurate with that status, according to the Geneva Conventions.<\/p>\n<p>We call on Moscow to comply with its obligations under international law. The United States will continue to firmly stand with the Ukrainian people as they defend their freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08\/24\/2022 05:30 PM EDT Ned Price,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51765,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51764\/revisions\/51765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}