Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Meeting to honour Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko banned in Russian-occupied Crimea
The de facto authorities under Russian occupation have refused to allow the traditional gathering in Simferopol on March 9. Gatherings to lay flowers and read Taras Shevchenko’s works required courage under the Soviet regime and could result in arrests. For Crimea under Russian occupation those times have returned. …read more Source:...
Savchenko: You haven’t broken me & you won’t. I am no object for bargaining
Nadiya Savchenko has threatened to refuse even water if sentence is not passed soon. The prosecutor is demanding 23 years for the former military pilot captured by Kremlin-backed militants in eastern Ukraine and abducted to Russia, AND a fine for ‘illegally crossing the border’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Nothing To See Here: Russian TV Suppresses Story Of Alleged Beheading By Nanny
Whatever the motive, the decision to withhold the story from viewers was diametrically opposed to the approach the same channels tend to take when an ethnic Russian is the alleged victim of violence abroad. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine’s Government Bans Criticism “To Restore Public Trust”
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has come up with a solution for fighting all the ills like corruption and lack of reform that are seriously damaging the country’s reputation. They have issued a resolution which demands that civil servants, and even the heads of state enterprises refrain from publicly criticizing the authorities and...
Ex Crimea volunteer battalion Azov leader arrested & accused of working for Russia
Ukraine’s Security Service have arrested Stanislav Krasnov, close friend of Crimean political prisoner Oleksandr Kostenko and himself wanted on politically motivated charges in Russian-occupied Crimea. The SBU accuse the former commander of the volunteer Krym Battalion and now leader of the Azov Crimea Civic Corps of spying for...
Ukraine’s shame if vital Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR now closes
It is almost a year since Russia tried to silence the unique Crimean Tatar television channel ATR, forcing it to close in Russian-occupied Crimea. Relaunched in Kyiv, the channel is now again in danger and, gallingly, this time it is inaction from the Ukrainian government which is jeopardizing the channel’s existence …read more...
Forget the Voters: Ukraine’s Leaders Bring in ‘Party Dictatorship’
President Poroshenko has ignored calls to veto a bill which has been condemned as a violation of electoral rights which could be used to enable parties to ignore voters’ choice and bring in obedient MPs, or those who pay most …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Militants again refuse to release Luhansk journalist Maria Varfolomeyeva
Kremlin-backed militants in the Luhansk oblast had promised to release 31-year-old Maria Varfolomeyeva on Feb 26, but yet again failed to do so. The Luhansk journalist who has been held hostage since for 13 months is said to be in a very bad physical and psychological state. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
A brief description of KHPG strategic litigations for 2015
A brief description of 264 cases of the KHPG Strategic Litigations Center is given …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
A Year without Boris Nemtsov and of pretend investigation
Words of indignation about the failed investigation are almost redundant. Who seriously expected investigators in Vladimir Putin’s Russia to look for those who had ordered the killing of the President’s fiercest critic, killed close to the Kremlin on February 27, 2015? …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
