Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Crimean prisoners illegally taken to Russia and ‘retried’
There are at least three Ukrainian prisoners who have been deprived of their right to amnesty under Ukrainian law and taken against their will to Russia where they were effectively ‘re-convicted’ under Russian law. The real number of such prisoners could be much higher. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Appeal by the leaders of Ukrainian national communities to the Dutch population
Ukrainian citizens of different nationalities took an active part in the Revolution of Dignity. They fought for a European future for our country, for the rule of law, for the triumph of the principles of tolerance and the inviolability of human rights. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
With all eyes on Savchenko, Ukrainian hostage Lytvynov’s farcical trial forgotten
Another trial directly linked with Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine is continuing just around the corner from Russian Donetsk, where the ‘trial’ of Nadiya Savchenko reached its predetermined end on March 22. Serhiy Lytvynov has also been in Russian custody for almost two years and is now facing absurd charges. So absurd that...
Russian Journalists Sent to Be Killed
Russia’s use of the death of two journalists for its high-profile trial in Russia of Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian military pilot captured in Ukraine seems particularly cynical given the total silence over the deaths of other Russian journalists, including one who was almost certainly deliberately sent to his death. …read more...
Cynical Farce Though It Is, Nadiya Savchenko Must Appeal
A legal trial that is run according to a prewritten script is no trial, and no justice. But by rejecting the appeal procedure, Nadiya Savchenko is making a grave mistake because it removes the possibility of applying to the European Court of Human Rights, and because her case has made the-farce-which-is-Russian-justice clear to the world and the...
Body Of Ukrainian Reporter Gongadze Finally Buried
The body of Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze has been buried in Kyiv, nearly 16 years after his killing, but family and friends say their fight for justice is not over. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Amnesty International’s call for Savchenko ’retrial’ is worse than silence
If Amnesty International has understood how flawed the trial in Russia of Ukrainian Nadiya Savchenko is, it must surely understand how extraordinary its demand for only a ‘retrial’ is. A retrial in which country? AI’s silence on the problem here is, unfortunately, not new. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Where is Russia hiding Crimean political prisoner Oleg Sentsov?
Russian rights activists have called on colleagues, particularly in the Far East of Russia, to try to locate Crimean filmmaker and political prisoner Oleg Sentsov whose whereabouts have been unknown for over two weeks …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Kremlin Donbas Proxy Openly Rejects Minsk Agreement Elections
A key Kremlin-backed leader has stated that he has no intention of implementing the Minsk Agreement and holding elections according to Ukrainian legislation. Western irritation with Ukraine’s supposed failure to come up with a ‘special’ law to enable such elections is therefore unfounded. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Ukrainian PEN asks Dutch colleagues to support a YES vote
It is Ukrainian civil society that has pushed our governments towards closer cooperation with the EU, towards acceptance and unambiguous implementation of European rules and standards, democratic institutions and practices, liberal stances and policies. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
