Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Ukraine: Foreign Journalists Barred or Expelled
Expand Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) chief Vasily Gritsak speaks during a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, June 6, 2016. © 2017 REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko (Kyiv) – Ukrainian authorities have detained and expelled several foreign journalists in recent weeks, most recently Russian reporter Anna Kurbatova, Human Rights Watch said...
A New Low for Russian Authorities in Crimea
Expand Server Karametov, 76 year old Crimean Tatar, after his arbitrary arrest in August 2017. © 2017 Private Just when you think the situation cannot get any worse for Crimean Tatars in Crimea, it does. Yesterday, a court in Simferopol sentenced Server Karametov, a 76-year old Crimean Tatar, to 10 days in jail for …read more Source: Human...
Ukraine: Who Killed Journalist Pavel Sheremet?
Expand Journalist Pavel Sheremet talks on the air at a radio station in Kiev, Ukraine on October 11, 2015. © 2016 Reuters Pavel Sheremet, a leading journalist, was killed in central Kyiv one year ago today when a bomb planted in his car exploded. We still don’t know who did it and why. Sheremet …read more Source: Human Rights...
Who Killed Sheremet?
Expand Journalist Pavel Sheremet talks on the air at a radio station in Kiev, Ukraine on October 11, 2015. © 2016 Reuters Pavel Sheremet, a leading journalist, was killed in central Kyiv one year ago today when a bomb planted in his car exploded. We still don’t know who did it and why. Sheremet …read more Source: Human Rights...
Ukraine: Separatists ‘Disappeared’ Blogger
(Berlin) – Authorities in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) in eastern Ukraine have been unlawfully holding a blogger known for his pro-Ukraine views in unacknowledged detention for over six weeks, Human Rights Watch said today. DNR security officials forcibly disappeared Stanyslav Aseev on June 2, 2017, and in recent days...
EU-Ukraine: Backtracking on Human Rights
Expand European Council President Donald Tusk gives a joint news conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Brussels, Belgium, June 22, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Brussels) – European Union leaders should press Ukraine at their July 12-13, 2017 summit meeting to fulfill its human rights obligations, Human Rights Watch said today. The...
Pro-Ukrainian blogger disappears in separatist-controlled area of eastern Ukraine
Two weeks ago, Stas called his mother to say he was on a bus entering Donetsk city, in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine. He was planning to visit her and his grandmother the next morning. She was excited. Stas had been traveling for work for days in other parts of Ukraine, and she missed him. However,...
Ukraine: Interactive dialogue on the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights periodic update on Ukraine
Interactive dialogue on the OHCHR periodic update on Ukraine, 12 June 2017 Thank you Mr. President, Human Rights Watch welcomes the periodic reports on the human rights situation in Ukraine provided by the Office of the High Commissioner. We share the High Commissioner’s concerns over the impact repeated ceasefire violations in Eastern...
Ukraine: Revoke Ban on Dozens of Russian Web Companies
Expand Logos of Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki social networks are seen on the screen of a payment terminal in this picture illustration taken May 16, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Kyiv) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on May 15, 2017, signed a decree banning public access to Russian social media platforms, news outlets, and a …read more...
Ukraine: Prison Sentence for Academic in Separatist Region
(Kyiv) – A military tribunal in the separatist-held area of Ukraine’s Donetsk region convicted a professor with pro-Ukrainian views on trumped-up charges of illegal weapons possession on May 3, 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. The court sentenced the academic, Ihor Kozlovsky, to 32 months in prison. The de facto authorities of the...
