Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Poroshenko law could strip huge numbers of Ukrainians of their citizenship
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has tabled as urgent a draft law which would automatically strip Ukrainians of their citizenship if they voluntarily took on citizenship of another country …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Six Immediate Steps to Stop Putin’s Aggression
With a few exceptions in the Baltic and Scandinavian countries, and recently in the Czech Republic, very few real counter-measures have been put into practice. Despite almost every Western intelligence agency urgently warning about the Russian threat, only a few Western leaders are ordering their security institutions to develop and implement...
Russian FSB officers illegally detain Ukrainian human rights monitors near Crimea
Olha Skrypnyk, Coordinator of the Crimean Human Rights Group and her colleague Volodymyr Chekryhin have finally been freed after being unwarrantedly detained for several hours by Russia’s FSB while in the buffer zone outside Russian-occupied Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia uses denunciation as pretext for new repression against Crimean Tatar Mejlis
Nariman Dzhelyal, First Deputy Head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, or representative assembly has faced interrogation in Russia’s so-called ‘Centre for Countering Extremism’, with the move a menacing warning of what could follow. Russia is resurrecting the worst traditions of Soviet times, and a denunciation was given as pretext for the...
Putin gives military award to Russian soldier for Donbas battle
Further evidence has emerged of Russian military personnel directly involved in the battle for Debaltseve in February 2015 …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
E-Mail Hack Gives Glimpse Into Russia’s Influence Drive In Eastern Europe
A recently hacked cache of documents indicates that Alyaksandr Usovsky’s activities include maintaining contact with Polish politician Mateusz Piskorski, a founder of a pro-Kremlin NGO that, among other things, organized this group of “international observers” to monitor the 2014 “referendum” in Crimea …read...
Human Rights Court judgment confirms violation by Russia of Crimean political prisoners’ rights
The European Court of Human Rights has issued an important judgment with direct relevance to Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko, and many other Ukrainians from occupied Crimea imprisoned huge distances away from their homes. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Captured Ukrainian soldiers ‘confess’ to militant killings & terrorism in Donbas & Russia
The so-called Luhansk people’s republic has extracted, almost certainly through torture, ‘confessions’ from two Ukrainian soldiers to killing one prominent militant and planning terrorist attacks on Russian cities. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Courthouse Drama: Jailing Of Ukraine Tax Chief Could Signal Watershed In Fight Against ’Corrupt Untouchables’
A ruling by a Kyiv district court to place Ukraine’s top tax official under arrest pending trial on embezzlement charges is being heralded as a landmark win for the country’s independent anticorruption agency and civil society as a whole in its uphill battle against entrenched graft. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Russia’s lawyer doesn’t deny Russian missile downed MH17, only that it’s terrorism
If, as Russia claims, it is fully implementing its obligations under two international agreements – not financing terrorism and not discriminating against Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians in occupied Crimea, is it fighting Ukraine’s attempt to secure provisional measures which demand only such implementation? …read more Source:...
