Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Russia accuses Ukraine of Trying to Sabotage Crimean Electricity with a Handsaw
The FSB have seized another Ukrainian in Russian-occupied Crimea and claimed that he was carrying out acts of sabotage for the SBU, Ukraine’s Security Service. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Mass detention of Crimean Tatars for solidarity with jailed 76-year-old Server Karametov
At least eight people were detained in Russian-occupied Crimea on August 14 for holding peaceful single-person pickets, or for photographing the police detaining the picketers, with one person – 64-year-old Yarikul Davlatov – now facing charges of holding an ‘unauthorized meeting’, For many Crimean Tatars there was no...
Russia’s youngest Ukrainian prisoner sentenced to 8 years, a political prisoner to 10 years for writing to him
While 19-year-old Artur Panov does not deny at least some of the charges, he was just 16 when arrested and there are grounds for doubting the seriousness of the grandiose plans he appears to have discussed. 35-year-old Maxim Smyshlyaev, who received a 10-year sentence, has long been recognized as a political prisoner by the renowned Memorial...
Prosecutor ‘loses’ critical evidence regarding Khmelnytsky Maidan killings
Three and a half years after shots fired from inside the Khmelnytsky SBU [Security Service] office at Maidan activists killed 73-year-old Ludmila Sheremet and seriously injured others, the investigation appears to have been deliberately sabotaged …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Road To Dispossession: Locals Pushed Aside For The Trans-Crimea Highway
People in Kerch and other locations along the planned highway route are already feeling the pain of dislocation. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Road To Dispossession: Locals Pushed Aside For The Trans-Crimea Highway
People in Kerch and other locations along the planned highway route are already feeling the pain of dislocation. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Name those who help Russia jail a frail & elderly Crimean Tatar for defending political prisoners
This torture of Server Karametov, a frail and elderly man who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease and many other serious illnesses elicited outrage and revulsion far beyond Crimea, yet ‘judge’ Natalya Anatolyevna Terentyeva claimed there were no grounds for overturning the jail sentence …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Rehabilitation Package of Reforms slams discriminatory bills on NGO public reporting
The draft laws proposed “contain a number of provisions that contradict national and international legislation, are discriminatory and consequently should be withdrawn” …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia’s “sentence against the entire Crimean Tatar people” awaited
The sentence is expected on August 11 of Akhtem Chiygoz, Deputy Head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis and recognized political prisoner. He and other Crimean Tatars are on trial, as Chiygoz said in his final address, for upholding the law and for defending Ukraine’s territorial integrity, with Russia’s prosecution carried out by people who...
New armed search in Crimea ends with Crimean Tatar Imam hospitalized
Russia has marked International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples with both continuing and new repression against Crimean Tatars. These included an armed search of the home which Umer Emiramzaev shares with his wife and three small children, and his parents and brothers. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
