Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Ukrainian court quashes rigged conviction of famous musician but leaves him in prison
It should have been victory against a terrible miscarriage of justice. Instead the Kyiv Court of Appeal’s ruling on April 20 has caused bemusement. The convictions against Ihor Zavadsky, a world-renowned accordionist and two other men were quashed, however Zavadsky remains in detention over four years after his original arrest on fabricated...
Why Has a Former Soviet Dissident Gone on Hunger-Strike in Britain?
My British friends are puzzled: why should one weaken oneself? Why jeopardize one’s already very poor health? Can’t things be resolved in court? No, says Vladimir Bukovsky, a man of outstanding courage and integrity, who has devoted his life to the struggle with the Soviet regime …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
New Russian Ombudsperson sees no political prisoners in Russia, only ‘extremists’
The Chief of Russia’s Investigative Committee has proposed criminalizing ‘denial’ of the fake ‘Crimea referendum’, and the country’s new Human Rights Ombudsperson plans to fight attempts by the West to ‘use’ human rights as a weapon “to destabilize Russia”’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Russia’s Constitutional Court backs selective justice
Human Rights Watch has condemned the Russian Constitutional Court’s first ruling that a binding European Court of Human Rights Judgment is ‘non-executable’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia sentences Ukrainian hostage to 8.5 years on openly invented charges
A Russian court has convicted Serhiy Lytvynov of a ‘crime’ which was only reported a year after it allegedly took place, and just after Russia’s Investigative Committee had been forced to withdraw war crimes charges which had been proven to be total fiction …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Alarm bells ring as chief Maidan crimes investigator threatened with criminal charges
Civic activists and Euromaidan victims’ lawyers have sounded the alarm about a major offensive against Serhiy Horbatyuk and his special investigative department. Several criminal investigations have been initiated against members of the department and Horbatyuk could himself be facing criminal charges for alleged ‘negligence’....
Crackdown On RFE/RL’s Crimea Site Sparks International Condemnation
The latest clampdown on a Crimea news site run by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has drawn international condemnation, with the United States denouncing it as “the Russian government’s growing crackdown on independent voices” on the annexed peninsula. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Top anti-corruption official questions motives for prosecution of key reformer Kasko
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau did not initiate criminal proceedings over flats obtained by Vitaly Kasko, a prominent reformer, anti-corruption campaigner and ex-Deputy Prosecutor General. This contradicts the impression given by the Prosecutor General’s Office which is seeking prosecution of Kasko, while claiming that data about the...
Nadiya Savchenko ends hunger strike
Nadiya Savchenko has agreed to end her hunger strike, following a conversation with her mother and President Petro Poroshenko. The news came the day after the sentencing of two Russian military intelligence officers caught fighting in the Luhansk oblast and a telephone conversation between Presidents Poroshenko and Vladimir Putin. …read...
Russian on ‘List of Terrorists & Extremists’ for Online Criticism of War Against Ukraine
46-year-old Yekaterina Vologzheninova was placed on Russia’s notoriously long ‘List of Extremists and Terrorists’ and convicted of ‘inciting enmity’ for reposting or ‘liking’ material on social networks critical of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
