Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Far-Right homophobic thugs attack LGBT Equality Festival in Lviv
The Equality Festival events planned for this weekend in Lviv have been disrupted and the activists effectively – and with violence – driven out of the city. The police did not detain any of the young far-right thugs in masks who first harassed activists, then surrounded the hotel and attacked a coach with Equality Festival activists. …read...
Ukraine Lists Individuals It Wants EU To Blacklist Over Savchenko Trial
Ukraine has identified nearly 50 people it considers responsible for the “illegal detention and falsified trial” of Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko and has urged the European Union to impose sanctions against them. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia to criminalize Crimean Tatar Mejlis for refusal to collaborate
The Mejlis, or representative assembly of the Crimean Tatar people is likely to be criminalized on the basis of unwarranted warnings about supposed ‘extremism’ or criminal charges brought for opposing Russian occupation of Crimea. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Chechnya turns into terror zone as another Russian human rights defender attacked
The attack on Igor Kalyapin, head of the Committee against Torture comes just a week after a savage attack on members of his committee and journalists. The chilling message it sends is particularly disastrous given the urgent need for publicity for Russia’s show trial in Grozny of Ukrainian political prisoners Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav...
Pro-Russian propagandist Graham Phillips detained in Riga
Graham Phillips, a Briton well-known for his propaganda coverage in excruciatingly bad Russian of the Kremlin-provoked and armed conflict in Donbas, has been detained by police in Riga. This has given pro-Kremlin media a particular boost with Phillips himself claiming he was simply standing and filming ‘fascists’. …read more Source:...
Human rights in Crimea
Review of human rights situation in the Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian invasion in the eyes of pro-Kremlin, neo-Nazi ’observers’
Since the 2nd anniversary of Russia’s pseudo ‘referendum’ on Crimea comes as the West is pushing Ukraine to agree to ‘elections’ in Kremlin-controlled Donbas, it seems worth recalling that supposed ‘expression of the people’s will’ and the motley crowd of far-right, neo-Nazi or extreme left-wing politicians who were...
Refusal to recognize Boris Nemtsov’s murder as political assassination upheld
On March 14, the Moscow City Court rejected an appeal against the refusal to reclassify the murder of former Russian Prime Minister and fierce Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov as an attempt on the life of a government or public figure (a more serious charge). The need for an international investigation is clear and urgent. …read more Source:...
’They Took Everything Away’: Russia’s Disabled Hit Hard By New Rules
Although he relies on a daily cocktail of drugs to survive, 5-year-old Daniil was struck off the disability register in October, leaving his family to fend for itself. Daniil is one of hundreds of thousands of patients who were denied disability benefits in 2015 under new measures that health advocates say are hurting many of Russia’s most...
Russian court overrules historical facts in show trial of two Ukrainians
Where the facts do not coincide with the Russian investigators’ charges against two Ukrainians on trial in Chechnya, it is the facts that are discarded, the witnesses who are sent awa …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
