Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
25% of the new Supreme Court judges received negative assessments
The results of Ukraine’s first competition for Supreme Court judges are in. While some appointments are certainly welcome, like that of human rights lawyer Arkadiy Bushchenko, others, like the judge who sentenced Volodymyr Panasenko to life imprisonment for a crime nobody believed he had committed, are immensely frustrating. …read...
Russia repeats ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar political prisoner until judges give the right sentence
After three attempts. Russia’s FSB has obtained almost the 17-year sentence it demanded against Ruslan Zeytullaev, a 32-year-old father of three and recognized political prisoner. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian Terrorism Suspects Allege Torture At ’Secret’ FSB Site
Lawyers for two Kyrgyz-born brothers charged in a deadly bombing on a St. Petersburg subway train in April have asked Russian authorities to investigate their clients’ claims that they were tortured at a “secret jail” outside Moscow. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Poroshenko strips political opponent Mikheil Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship
The official reason why Mikheil Saakashvili has been stripped of the Ukrainian citizenship he was ceremoniously granted in May 2015 is that he concealed criminal proceedings against him in his native Georgia …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia protects Donbas militant killer of 16-year-old pro-Ukrainian schoolboy
If the Russian fighter wanted for his role in the downing of Malaysian airliner MH17 is correct, Russia will refuse to hand over to Ukraine Vadim Pogodin, a former Donbas militant leader believed to have ordered and taken part in the horrific torture and killing in 2014 of 16-year-old Stepan Chubenko …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
The Moneyed Professor: Putin’s Dissertation Adviser Reportedly Now A Billionaire
Add another name to the list of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s associates who have reportedly become billionaires under his reign …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Tatar political prisoner Zeytullaev faces increase in sentence to 17 years
A Russian Supreme Court appeal hearing in Moscow on July 27 could result in an innocent Ukrainian being sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment and it is of critical appearance that journalists and human rights organizations attend. . …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Public Integrity Council negative opinions should be grounds for disqualifying Supreme Court candidates
The High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ) has finished its consideration of opinions of the Public Integrity Council (PIC) on candidates’ non-compliance with criteria of integrity and professional ethic …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia possibly implicated in latest armed abduction by Donbas militants
Two Ukrainians are known to have been taken prisoner in the so-called ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ n the past two weeks, although a prominent journalist believes the number of disappearances in militant-controlled Donbas to be considerably higher …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Why Congress Should Pass the Russia Sanctions Bill
New sanctions legislation with teeth is direly needed—not least because of the dozens of Ukrainian political prisoners who continue to languish in Russian prisons. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
