Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Ukrainian Jewish leaders appeal to Holland: Give our country the chance to break with the past
Prominent Jewish religious and civic leaders have addressed a moving appeal to the people of the Netherlands who are due to shortly vote in a referendum on whether to ratify the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New charges against Ukrainian hostage as surreal as those Russia forced to retract
The trial has begun in Russia of Serhiy Lytvynov on robbery charges which Russia’s Investigative Committee came up with after being forced to abandon a war crimes indictment based solely on lurid ‘confessions’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian Military Command Found Linked To MH17 Downing
Bellingcat researchers investigating the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 have published a report they provided to Dutch prosecutors linking the commanders of a Russian military unit to the plane’s downing …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Journalist named Ukraine’s First Prisoner of Conscience in 5 years
Amnesty International has named Ukrainian freelance journalist and blogger Ruslan Kotsaba a prisoner of conscience in its latest report. The NGO’s coverage of events in Donbas and Crimea can be disputed, but its assessment of Kotsaba’s ongoing imprisonment over contentious utterances and even more dubious charges seems depressingly...
Amnesty International accuses Russia of deliberately bombing civilians
“Some Russian air strikes appear to have directly attacked civilians or civilian objects by striking residential areas with no evident military target and even medical facilities, resulting in deaths and injuries to civilians. Such attacks may amount to war crimes” …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Detained for being Crimean Tatar
All young Crimean Tatar men trying to enter Crimea from mainland Ukraine at the Chonhar crossing on Feb 22 were stopped by Russian security service officers, with many taken away for questioning …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Opposition Calls Kadyrov ’Private Army’ Threat To Russia
A leaked excerpt from the report by the Russian opposition on Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov accuses him of amassing a 30,000-strong “private army” that constitutes a threat to national security. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Kremlin-backed militants drive out another vital aid charity as ’western spies’
Marina Cherenkova has been released after nearly a month imprisoned and ‘deported’, with her vital ‘Responsible Citizens NGO effectively accused of being a cover for western security services. There is no news about renowned religious specialist Ihor Kozlovsky taken prisoner a few days earlier …read more Source: Kharkiv...
The Self-Government Body of the Crimean Tatar People must not be banned
Russia’s attempt to ban the Mejlis amounts to the ethnic, cultural and political discrimination of the Crimean Tatar people. Please endorse this protest by human rights groups …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian convicted of ’inciting enmity’ for criticizing Putin’s war against Ukraine
A court in Yekaterinburg has found 46-year-old Yekaterina Vologzheninova guilty of ‘inciting ethnic enmity’ for reposting or ‘liking’ material on social networks critical of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
