The so-called busification of persons liable for military service is not legal, said veteran lawyer Masi Nayyem in an interview with the Adult View programme on LB live.
Legally, mobilisation is carried out as follows: a person liable for military service comes to update his or her data, undergoes a military medical commission, and then receives a new call-up paper. Mobilisation immediately ‘off the street’ without undergoing a military medical commission is not legal.
‘When they drag him off the street, is it legal? In my opinion, no. I don't remember a provision of the law that would allow a police officer or a representative of the state authorities to touch me at all. Only when I start a certain offence and they stop me in this way,’ he said.
Nayyem believes that ‘busying’ is happening because no one is investigating the quality of the TRC's performance in meeting mobilisation targets.
‘They have targets of 300 people - they sent them,’ the defender added.
He believes that if the quantitative indicator was removed and the mobilisation rate was assessed by quality, the TRCs would not try to mobilise people by force. At the same time, he urged not to generalise and not to consider every TRC worker as bad.
‘Not all TRCs are bad people,’ Nayyem said.
He also believes that if the state fails to mobilise the required 160,000 people in the coming months, it will have to sign a surrender. The defenders who have been defending Ukraine since the first days need to be replaced.
‘Just think what you will lose if the frontline falls,’ he said.