Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Remembering 20 February 2014
On this day I first understood that you can have no fear. None at all. When there is something that is much more important than your fear, inability, illness, tiredness. When next to you young men, only a little older than your granddaughter, are bleeding. When they die in your arms and you don’t even howl from impotence, but do what is...
Fascists And Evil Americans: Ukrainian Separatists Launch Magazine For Kids
A ruthless cookie-baking overlord named Fashiston dressed in the colors of the American flag. An evil woman named Gnuland handing out treats to masked men controlled by a pig-headed Ukrainian. And a kind, well-dressed man called Papa who has a striking resemblance to Russian President Vladimir Putin. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
FSB armed terror, torture & lawlessness against Crimean Muslims
Armed searches are continuing in Russian-occupied Crimea with torture methods used against at least one Crimean Tatar. More details have also emerged of the four Crimean Muslims remanded in custody, though none that could possibly explain their arrest. The wife of the sole non-Crimean Tatar assumes that her husband is under arrest so that the...
Tortured in God’s Name in Occupied Donbas
If it was bad for dialogue between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill to admit to Russia’s pivotal role in the war in Ukraine, they should have kept off the subject altogether, particularly given the evidence of systematic religious persecution by Russian & Russian-backed militants and the role played by many paramilitary groups under...
The full weight of Russia’s repressive machine for courage
Crimean political prisoner Gennady Afanasyev is not receiving medical treatment for a blood infection and is in a lot of pain. The court has also adjourned a court hearing into his application to be moved to a prison closer to his home …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Election watchdog slams law enabling exclusion of candidates after election
Unless the law is revoked, parties will be able to change the order of candidates on the candidate lists after votes have already been cast. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia’s Crimean Tatar show trial proves too shoddy even for the court
In a surprise move on Feb 15, the Supreme Court in Russian-occupied Crimea sent the case against Crimean Tatar leader Akhtem Chiygoz and 5 other Crimean Tatars back for ‘further investigation’. This came on the same day that the Memorial Human Rights Centre condemned the trial and recognized Chiygoz, Ali Asanov and Mustafa Degermendzhy as...
Kharkiv woman awarded huge damages for police torture
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Ukraine to pay Svitlana Pomilyayko 20 thousand EUR in damages after accepting that she had been subjected to torture while in police custody, and that the authorities had failed to properly investigate her complaints. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
A Window to Europe for Crimean Tatars
The European Parliament’s resolution on the human rights situation in Crimea was important also as the first time a major international democratic body has explicitly acknowledged Crimean Tatars as ‘indigenous people of Crimea’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Tatar Mejlis criminalized for opposing Russian occupation of Crimea
Russia has formally begun the procedure of banning the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People citing as formal grounds the law on countering ‘extremism’, while claiming, in Soviet style, that this is because of requests from Crimean Tatar organizations. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
