Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
2 Crimean Tatars on trial for a pre-annexation pro-Ukraine rally released under house arrest
Ali Asanov and Mustafa Degermendzhy are home with their families after almost two years in custody. Both are under house arrest and their surreal trial is continuing, but at least they have been freed from custody. Russia is continuing to hold Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Akhtem Chiygoz in custody and prevent him from even attending his own trial...
Mass persecution inevitable if Russia bans the Jehovah’s Witnesses as ’extremist’
Russia’s Supreme Court appears to be on the verge of banning the Jehovah’s Witnesses after a Justice Ministry application which claimed that this world faith is ‘extremist’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Human rights in Ukraine in 2016: main trends
The Ukrainian people under trying circumstances defend their freedom. Our war is just, and therefore we cannot be like the aggressor, with whom we are fighting. During the war the wounds in human souls are inevitable. But let not our hands to cause these wounds. Do not let hate reign over us. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Crimean Tatar political prisoner declares hunger strike
Ruslan Zeitullaev, one of the first men tried for unproven involvement in an organization which is legal in Ukraine has demanded an end to persecution of his people, and announced a hunger strike until specific demands are met. Zeitullaev addressed his demands to the Russian military court in Rostov where he is currently being retried after his...
Freedom House: The False Promise of Populism
Populists’ stunning electoral victories in Europe and the United States have shaken the post–Cold War order in Europe and Eurasia, but they could ultimately reinvigorate liberal democracy. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Old tricks mar hopes for a renewed Supreme Court in Ukraine
How can you believe in a transparent and fair competition for new Supreme Court judges when the goalposts shift in the middle of the game? When the criteria for selecting only the strongest candidates have been fixed, yet 43 candidates who didn’t meet the criteria get slipped in? These are only the latest hiccups to a competition which...
Russia ignores its own international agreements in trying journalist for saying Crimea is Ukraine
Russia is claiming that Mykola Semena sought to violate Russia’s territorial integrity in a text opposing Russian annexation, although it has never withdrawn from international conventions which recognize Crimea as Ukrainian …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Blacklist exposes judges involved in political persecution in Russian-occupied Crimea
The Crimea Human Rights Group has collated important information about all judges involved in illegally imprisoning Ukrainian citizens in Russian-occupied Crimea. The blacklist will provide vital documentation for international courts as well as evidence to back demands for the individuals to face Ukrainian and international sanctions....
Rights Groups Says Police Detain 59 At Opposition Protest In Moscow
The arrests come a week after more than 1,000 were arrested during a demonstration organized by leading Kremlin critic and anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine re-arrests asylum-seeker in danger if extradited to Russia
A Ukrainian court has ordered the detention, pending extradition, of Shakhban Isakov, an asylum-seeker whom Russia wants to prosecute on the same dubious charges as those Russia has brought against two renowned Crimean Tatar leaders, both Ukrainian MPs …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
