Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Why block VKontakte when it provides evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine?
President Poroshenko’s Decree blocking VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, and other Russian-based social media, TV channels, etc. provoked a torrent of angry accusations of censorship from some and the question why it had taken so long from others …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
No penalty against Ukrainian judge who ordered Berkut to disperse Maidan
The High Council of Justice has decided that there are no grounds for dismissing Yevhen Ablov, the Kyiv judge who ordered Berkut riot police to forcibly disperse Euromaidan activists in December 2013. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
In Memoriam: Yevhen Hrytsyak, Leader of the Norilsk Uprising
Yevhen Hrytsyak, one of the leaders of the 1953 Norilsk Uprising, has died at the age of 90. In his message on the news, President Petro Poroshenko spoke both of deep sorrow at his passing and of “profound gratitude for his example of an unbreakable spirit and will to fight for freedom”. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Even Remembrance of the Crimean Tatar Deportation prohibited in Russian-occupied Crimea
Crimean Tatars are for the fourth time facing bans and likely arrests on the 73rd anniversary of the Deportation in 1944 of the entire Crimean Tatar people from their homeland …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia’s youngest Ukrainian prisoner faints in court after week on hunger strike
19-year-old Artur Panov lost consciousness during a court hearing in Rostov on the Don on May 10, a week after he declared a dry hunger strike, demanding to be returned to Ukraine. He collapsed in the cage he and recognized political prisoner Maxim Smyshlayev were held in and an ambulance needed to be called …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
How Not to Become a War Criminal: A Guide for Russian Soldiers
Few Russian citizens view the Kremlin’s invasion into Ukraine as unlawful. Not many Russian servicemen realize that when they are fighting there, they fight as unnamed, faceless soldiers who lack the protection of international pacts, including the Geneva Conventions. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Young Ukrainian sentenced for ‘propaganda of communism’ on Facebook
A Ukrainian has received a suspended sentence under a highly controversial ‘decommunization’ law, slammed by the Council of Europe’s legal experts, for photos and other material with communist symbols posted on Facebook …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine’s Security Service denies alleged link to killing of journalist Pavel Sheremet
An SBU spokesperson has dismissed one aspect of a journalist investigation into the killing in July 2016 of Kyiv-based Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet, while leaving the key questions raised by the disturbing investigation unanswered …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Speak out for those whom Russia stops from being at Eurovision
Spare a thought – and some time for the initiative #NoEurovisionFor for the 44 Ukrainian political prisoners who cannot be at the Eurovision competition currently underway in Kyiv, nor even see it from their prisons in Russia, or Russian-occupied Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Donbas war criminals glorified in Russia on Victory Day
Victory Day in Russia was marked this year by state-controlled television appearing to view Donetsk as its city and / or a ‘military victory’ and photos at the Immortal Regiment march of a notorious Russian mercenary and Ukrainian militant whom Ukraine had wanted to see tried for war crimes in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
