Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Crimean journalist arrested, others in custody in major new clampdown
Mykola Semena, a journalist who writes for Radio Svoboda’s Crimean Service, is facing charges of ‘calls to separatism’, almost certainly for questioning Russia’s occupation of Crimea. Other journalists have also faced searches and been taken away for questioning …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Extradition promises for show as Russia forces citizenship on Crimean political prisoner
Russia is still trying to force its citizenship on Gennady Afanasyev, one of the four opponents of Crimean annexation taken illegally to Russia and convicted of ‘terrorism’, and may also be putting similar pressure on Oleksandr Kolchenk …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukrainian hostage faces 9 year sentence in Russia for want of a crime
A Russian court is likely on April 20 to sentence Ukrainian Serhiy Lytvynov to up to 9 years in a maximum security prison. For being Ukrainian, effectively, since he committed no crime. The politics in this case, and there is little else, lies in Lytvynov’s nationality and Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine. …read more...
Sanctions, not words, needed over extrajudicial criminalization of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis
Two years after invading and annexing Ukrainian territory, Russia has effectively declared war against the Crimean Tatar people. More words of concern, without real punitive sanctions, would be frighteningly inadequate. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Verdict awaited on Russian military intelligence officers captured in Donbas
Media hype suggesting that Monday’s verdict due on two Russians believed to be from GRU or Russian military intelligence could immediately be used to ensure Nadiya Savchenko’s exchange and return to Ukraine, is, her lawyer warns, premature …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Draconian laws set scene for mass arrests in Russia & Occupied Crimea
Two draft laws tabled in the Russian parliament have been described as setting the ground for Russia’s FSB to imprison people en masse on ‘extremism’ charges, with these increasingly used in Russia to silence criticism of the regime, and especially its annexation of Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Mounting Concern for Nadiya Savchenko’s Life and Health
Nadiya Savchenko has now been on dry hunger strike for 9 days and her lawyer reports that she has said she will refuse the intravenous injections she has been receiving from Friday. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New Ukrainian leaders, same dodgy use of selective prosecutions
The good news that ex-Deputy Prosecutor General Vitaly Kasko has not been remanded in custody cannot remove the deep concern that an attempt was made to jail an outspoken critic of corruption and stalled reforms. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Stark warning of bloody provocation planned against Crimean Tatars
The warning from a well-known Russian analyst that Russia could be planning to use methods seen in the Caucasus to stage a provocation and then a bloody crackdown against Crimean Tatars is difficult to dismiss, and not only because of the virulent propaganda campaign in the Russian and other pro-Kremlin media. …read more Source: Kharkiv...
Corruption Is The New Communism
In many ways, Russian corruption is the new Soviet Communism. Kremlin-sponsored graft is the new Red Menace. And the Soviet Union’s attempts to subvert the West with the power of an idea has given way to Vladimir Putin’s Russia seeking to corrupt it with the lure of easy money …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
