Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Ukraine Beats Russia in Epic Gas Battle
On May 31, Ukraine’s Naftogaz won an extraordinary victory over Russia’s Gazprom in the international arbitration court in Stockholm. This was the possibly biggest international arbitration verdict ever. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Court revokes acquittal of controversial Ukrainian journalist & first post-Maidan prisoner of conscience
The acquittal in July 2016 of Ukrainian blogger and journalist Ruslan Kotsaba on charges of obstructing Ukraine’s Armed Services has been revoked and the case sent back for a new court hearing …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Kremlin muffles question to Macron & Putin about jailed Ukrainian journalist
The Kremlin’s record of questions put to the Presidents of France and Russia at their joint May 30 press conference omits any message of imprisoned Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko. Human rights are also given a wide berth although they were also certainly raised at question-time. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Russia begins trial of Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov by removing his defence lawyer
Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Ilmi Umerov is facing a five-year sentence for saying that Russia should leave Crimea and Donbas, with the preliminary hearing as parody-like as one would expect under such circumstances …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Detention Of Bard-Loving Boy In Moscow Sparks Outrage
The boy’father said his son has a speech defect and that his therapist advised him to recite literature in public, which is why he was reading Shakespeare on the street. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Your Dishonour as title for many judges in failed Ukraine Supreme Court reform?
Ukraine’s first-ever ‘open competition’ for vacant Supreme Court judge posts is in danger of turning into farce. The Commission which chooses successful candidates has ignored 80% of the negative assessments issued by the Public Integrity Council and is rejecting calls for vitally needed transparency …read more Source: Kharkiv...
SBU ‘treason’ probe and search at Yandex Ukraine to justify contentious ban?
If the Security Service’s search of the offices of Yandex Ukraine on May 29 was supposed to convince people that the sanctions imposed upon the company two weeks ago were justified, the aim was not achieved. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Unexpected sentence asked for Ukrainian library director on trial in Russia for ‘anti-Russian extremism’
You can hardly call the proposed 5-year suspended sentence and massive fine on librarian Natalya Sharina for supposed ‘incitement’ over the content of material in her library good news, but it could have been much worse.. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Judges double as prosecutors to jail Ukrainian activist in Russian occupied Crimea
There needed to be exceptional circumstances to extend Ukrainian activist and political prisoner Volodymyr Balukh’s imprisonment beyond 6 months. There were none, just an FSB order and a judge with no scruples. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Why Ukraine’s Worst Enemy Is Not Vladimir Putin
One ubiquitous and insidious enemy has so far escaped detection. This is the relentless negativity that shrouds Ukrainian perceptions of their own country. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
