Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Maidan activist Kostenko refused parole for denying insane charges
A Russian court has rejected Oleksandr Kostenko’s application for parole citing his denial of legally absurd charges and the fact that he was placed in a punishment cell (on the pretext that he hadn’t greeted a prison official) …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
How many Crimean Tatars will Russia declare ‘extremists’ ?
Nobody expected real court hearings on Russia’s execution of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, yet the level of legal nihilism demonstrated has still been staggering. Crimean ‘Prosecutor’ Natalya Poklonskaya has just announced that she is suspending the activities of the Mejlis until the court ruling – just in case anybody was in...
Time is running out for rule of law in Ukraine.
There is a real risk that reforms will stall now that the country has moved from the unsustainable Yanukovych corruption levels to the sustainable Kuchma levels that allowed some to become extremely rich while the vast majority remained structurally poor …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian Opposition Picks Holes In State TV ’Exposé’ Of Navalny
Russian state TV says it has exposed Kremlin foe Aleksei Navalny as a paid agent of the West. Navalny and his allies in the opposition say they have exposed the program as a sloppy hit-job full of fabricated “evidence.” …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Misleading headlines over extradition of Sentsov & other Ukrainian hostages
The headlines announcing imminent release of Crimean filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and other Ukrainians held illegally in Russia were at very least premature. Statements about Nadiya Savchenko’s possible return also made the headlines earlier, but have yet to come to anything, despite the 34-year-old now being on a total hunger strike and demands...
Arrested in Ukraine for being Russian?
It is 4 months since Anastasia Leonova was arrested in Kyiv and concern is mounting that the 33-year-old Kremlin critic is in detention on ‘terrorism’ charges because Ukraine’s SBU needed a Russian. Not just one, with the grounds for detaining 2 other Russians also questionable. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Prosecutor General Office stages evening raid to bring charges against anti-corruption reformer
In what has been aptly described as “the latest disgrace from the Prosecutor General’s leadership”, an attempt was made late on Sunday evening to read out criminal charges against Vitaly Kasko, ex-Deputy Prosecutor General and prominent critic of corruption and sabotage of reform within the prosecutor service. …read more Source:...
Inadequate charges & sentences over violent homophobic attack on Kyiv Gay Pride march
Nine months after an Equality March in Kyiv was attacked by right-wing homophobic thugs, four men have received 2-year suspended sentences. No hate crime component was taken into account and the defendants were deemed to deserve a milder sentence for their ‘sincere remorse’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
What Now For Ukraine’s EU Association Agreement?
The defeat packs a symbolic wallop for Ukraine, where the Euromaidan unrest that toppled the government nearly two years ago was fueled in large part by a desire for closer relations with the EU. But it could also block planned visa liberalization for Ukrainians who wish to travel to EU states …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
What European Values if Dutch Referendum Result Stands?
It is hard to find the words to express the sense of betrayal. Are the deaths on Maidan, the persecution, and courage to have no meaning because of a pseudo referendum with questionable motives, arguments taken straight out of the propaganda Russia used to justify its aggression against Ukraine and highly dubious funding? …read more Source:...
