Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
The Saakashvili case: politicians kill the law (updated)
A great deal has been said by many about the stripping of Mikheil Saakashvi’s Ukrainian citizenship by the decree of President Petro Poroshenko on July 25 and his scandal-filled return to Ukraine on September 10. Nonetheless, I would like to draw attention to certain details which have not been discussed and which seem important....
Chatham House Report: The Struggle for Ukraine
The Chatham House report says that it is “partly about Ukraine’s struggle to hold together and resist Russia’s interference and pressure – in the military, diplomatic, economic and media spheres. But it is also about a related internal contest to determine the political, institutional and civic future of Ukraine”...
Abducted Ukrainian’s medical condition “grave”, Russian charges deeply suspect
While 19-year-old Pavlo Hryb’s doctor warns of potentially catastrophic since early childhood has warned of potentially grave consequences if Russia continues to refuse the young Ukrainian proper medical treatment, the FSB is concentrating on circulating misleading information about the young man and the charges against him. Details are...
Russia hunts ‘organizers’ of Crimean Tatar solitary pickets against repression
A number of Crimean Tatars who on October 14 held single-person pickets in protest at mounting repression have been summoned to the police for questioning. The summonses, like the detention of 49 Crimean Tatar picketers on Saturday, are in breach even of Russian legislation, and there are fears that Russia may try to concoct criminal prosecution...
Ukrainian arrested in Russia for going to political meetings in Ukraine
Russia’s Investigative Committee and FSB have arrested yet another Ukrainian on surreal charges linked with the Ukrainian nationalist organization ‘Right Sector’. Roman Terkovsky is accused of attending entirely legal Right Sector events in Ukraine and of promoting the organization on Facebook. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Mothers and children of Crimean Tatar political prisoners frighten judges in Russian-occupied Crimea
With press freedom severely curtailed, and lawyers prohibited from divulging any information about the charges their clients face, Russia probably expected the lawlessness of its indefinite imprisonment and ‘trials’ of Crimean Tatars and other Crimean Muslims to go unnoticed. Crimea is not Russia, however, and there will be no silence,...
Janus Putkonen and the Donbas DONi-News – disinformation and misrepresentation
Finnish Janus Putkonen permanently moved to Donetsk in summer 2015. At that time he founded the so-called DONi-News media company with Russian money. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia erects memorial to Donbas mercenaries Ukraine wanted to see tried for war crimes
Vladislav Surkov, advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin took part on October 16 in the ceremonial opening in Rostov (Russia) of a memorial to Russian or pro-Russian fighters who died in Donbas. The event was timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the death of Russian mercenary Arseny Pavlov [‘Motorola”], whom Ukraine had...
Ukrainian gets two-year suspended sentence for social media repost of Dugin text in 2014
A 35-year-old Ukrainian from Kyiv has received a two-year suspended sentence for the reposting on social media back in April 2014 of an article by Russian fascist ideologue Alexander Dugin. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Journalist facing persecution in Azerbaijan detained in Ukraine
Fikret Guseinov, a journalist working from Dutch exile for the opposition TV Turan channel, was detained on October 14 at Kyiv’s Boryspil Airport. Since one of the charges against him is of ‘illegally crossing the border’ when he left Azerbaijan in 2008, the question yet again arises of what checking procedure Interpol uses before...
