Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Putin’s National Guard will be allowed to shoot at protesters without warning
Officers of the newly created ‘National Guard’ will be allowed to shoot without warning and use armoured vehicles and water cannon against demonstrators Putin’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has already made it clear that the fighters can be used against “unauthorized mass protests”. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
NOBODY was jailed for ripping up portrait of Poroshenko!
It is clear why the Russian media joined the defendant and his far-right friends in claiming that his 4.5 year sentence had been for destroying a portrait of the President, but why did the Ukrainian media so happily repeat the nonsense? …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine: The case for ’voor’ in the Dutch Referendum
The European Union must ensure that it has a realistic and effective policy towards its East. And entering into agreements which encourage greater integration and cooperation with these countries is the only way of doing that. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The New York Times Was Right about Ukraine’s Corruption Problem
President Poroshenko’s dismissal of a critical New York Times editorial as ‘hybrid warfare’ seems wildly off the mark. NYT was, if anything, more charitable of the President’s motives than many Ukrainians who assume Poroshenko’s main criterion for the prosecutor general and the next prime minister is the candidate’s...
Russian deputy charged with incitement to hatred after criticizing Putin
Olga Li is facing a possible prison sentence for ‘incitement to enmity and ]extremism’ after a public address to Vladimir Putin in which she accused him of ‘a criminal conspiracy against his own people’ and reported that in the Kursk region Putin’s popularity rating is in fact 25%. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Letters From Donbas, Part 7: ’How Long Can You Postpone Your Life?’
From teachers to pensioners to families with children, residents of rebel-held towns are struggling to get on with their lives amid the chaos and uncertainty. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukrainian Library director could get 10 years on new Russian charges
With the original ‘extremism’ and ‘incitement’ charges against Natalya Sharina, Director of the Ukrainian Literature Library in Moscow, proving just too sloppy and absurd, Russian investigators have come up with a new indictment …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New Terror Offensive Against Crimean Tatars
At least 35 Crimean Tatars were detained on Friday evening after armed men in masks burst into a café outside Simferopol. Crimean Tatars were openly targeted, with people in the cafe “of Slavonic appearance” ignored …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine must not become like Russia – Free Journalist & Blogger Ruslan Kotsaba!
However objectionable we may find somebody’s views, it is Russia who is imprisoning its citizens for expressing opinions and Ukraine should not follow suit. The charges of state treason against blogger and journalist Ruslan Kotsaba are manifestly unwarranted …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ildar Dadin jail term upheld as Russia effectively criminalizes peaceful protest
““I am here because I live in accordance with my conscience”, Ildar said in court on Thursday. Until you come out and state your position, you are an accomplice to fascism”. This draconian sentence may be because of Dadin’s support for Maidan, for Ukraine and Ukrainian prisoners held in Russia …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
