Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Putin Cautions Kadyrov, But Gives Green Light For His Reelection
Meeting on March 25 in the Kremlin with Ramzan Kadyrov, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had signed a decree appointing the current Chechen leader as acting republic head when his second term expires on April 5. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Dissident MPs lose mandate in new move towards ‘party dictatorship’
Ukraine’s Central Election Commission has complied with a highly contentious move by the bloc of Petro Poroshenko [BPP] and has stripped two Ukrainian MPs of their mandate. The move is especially chilling as one of the MPs Yehor Firsov had left the faction in protest at what he called corruption among the leadership …read more Source:...
Darya Polyudova gets 2 years for criticising Putin and war in Ukraine
While Ramzan Kadyrov’s open threats against peaceful opponents of the Kremlin get him Putin’s approval and continued leadership of Chechnya, Darya Polyudova is to serve 2 years for criticism of Russia’s war against Ukraine and an attempt to hold a peaceful ‘federalization march’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Spectre of Shokin ’Reincarnation’ as Key Reformers Attacked
Relief that Viktor Shokin has finally been removed from his post as Prosecutor General was tempered on Tuesday by a final blow against the reform camp and by mounting concern that Shokin’s successor may only differ in passport details. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia’s elderly Ukrainian hostage refused treatment for cancer
Even Russia’s Ombudsperson has called for Yury Soloshenko to be released, yet the 73-year-old Ukrainian pensioner sentenced by a Russian court to 6 years imprisonment on absurd ‘spying’ charges has now been moved from the prison medical unit to an ordinary cell …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukrainians demand an independent Prosecutor General
200 or more protesters gathered outside the President’s Administration on Sunday demanding the removal of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin whose resignation once again seems in doubt. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crucial Maidan killings suspect released with courts accused of sabotage
Roman Zavorotny, who is accused of a key role in arming ‘titushki’ or paid thugs with police machine guns, was released from custody just after midnight on Sunday morning …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Prosecutor General’s Office obtains carte blanche to raid anti-corruption NGO
The ever-obliging Pechersky Court in Kyiv has allowed the Prosecutor General’s Office to search and remove documents, etc. from the Anti-Corruption Action Centre. This, we are to understand, is how the illustrious investigators want to find US money allocated for reforming the prosecutor’s office …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Why murder the lawyer of captured Russian military intelligence officers?
The brutal murder of Yury Hrabovsky, the lawyer representing one of two believed Russian GRU officers captured in 2015 in Donbas, came at a time when the men’s exchange for Ukrainians held prisoner in Russia was being openly discussed. While it is widely assumed that his murder is linked with the case, it is less clear who is behind it....
Two Years After Annexation, Crimeans Wait On Russia’s Unfulfilled Promises
In the run-up to the March 16, 2014, referendum in Crimea — which has not been recognized as legitimate by the international community — Moscow and pro-Russian figures on the peninsula promised locals a glittering and prosperous future. The promises remained unkept …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
