Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Russia accused of multiple human rights violations over ban on Crimean Tatar Mejlis
Russia’s ban on the Crimean Tatar Mejlis [representative assembly] has been formally challenged at the European Court of Human Rights, with the Mejlis represented by prominent Ukrainian and Russian human rights groups and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre [EHRAC]. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Arrest warrant on ex-Ukrainian PM culminates Russia’s most cynical torture-based political trial
A Russian court has issued an ‘arrest warrant’ on ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk, claiming that he was placed on the international wanted list on Feb 21, 2017. There is no evidence that Interpol knows it is supposed to be looking for Yatsenyuk, and every reason to assume they would refuse to do so. …read more Source:...
Crimean Tatar activist jailed for video posted 7 years ago in new wave of repression
Remzi Bekirov has been jailed for three days in an escalating offensive against Crimean Tatars who actively report on repression in Russian-occupied Crimea. It is doubtless intentional that the pretext should have been a social network post from long before Russia’s annexation of Crimea and on a VKontakte page that he had long deleted...
PEN America honors Oleg Sentsov with 2017 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award
PEN America announced on March 29 that it will honor imprisoned Ukrainian writer and filmmaker Oleg Sentsov with the 2017 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award at its annual Literary Gala on April 25 …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Tatar activist abducted by masked men from outside court
Belyal Adilov was seized by men in camouflage gear and masks from outside the High Court in Russian-occupied Crimea on March 29 in the latest attempt to terrorize Crimean Tatars and deter them from showing solidarity with victims of persecution …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Continuing crackdown and police violence in Belarus
The Civic Solidarity movement condemns mass detentions and police violence against peaceful demonstrators, calls for a strong reaction by the international community …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New attack on Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov
Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov has been summoned for questioning and informed he is facing a preliminary criminal investigation on absurd charges. This is the latest overt offensive against Kurbedinov and other lawyers defending Russia’s ever-increasing number of political prisoners in occupied Crimea. …read more Source:...
From torture to solitary confinement for a letter in Crimean Tatar
Teymur Abdullaev, one of 19 Crimean Muslims held illegally in indefinite detention in Russian-occupied Crimea has been placed in a punishment cell for writing a letter to his family in Crimean Tatar. The guards considered that only Russian was acceptable. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Poroshenko signs anti-Maidan law against NGOs & journalists fighting corruption
President Poroshenko has signed into law a dangerous bill which could be used to put pressure on NGOs, investigative journalists or activists, especially those most actively seeking to expose and eradicate corruption. He has in short allowed a law which his predecessor, now in hiding in Russia, would be proud of. …read more Source: Kharkiv...
Kremlin-backed militants free blogger accused of ’extremism’, others still held hostage for pro-Ukrainian stand
53-year-old Hennady Benitsky has been released several months after being seized by militants from the so-called ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ [LNR], who have not terminated their charges of ‘extremism’. Edward Nedelyaev, who was arrested earlier, remains in militant custody, as do others seized for a pro-Ukrainian position and...
