Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Donbas militants seize Ukrainian woman & accuse her of bizarrely useless ‘spying’
52-year-old Valentina Buchok has become the latest Ukrainian to be seized by Kremlin-backed militants and accused of ‘spying’ for Ukraine’s Security Service [SBU] by, for example, a ‘reconnaissance visit’ to the apartment where war criminal Motorola lived a month or more after he was killed. …read more Source:...
Slain Crimean Tatar Reshat Ametov “wanted his children to live in a free Crimea”
“Russian friend, if they order you to, will you shoot at me?” This question was the last post 39-year-old Reshat Ametov made on Facebook, the day before his silent picket in protest at the Russian soldiers who had invaded his home. The Crimean Tatar father of three was seized by so-called ‘self-defence’ paramilitaries from outside the...
Rights groups call for EU action in defence of democracy in Poland
Polish and international human rights organizations have signed an open letter requesting the European Commission to launch the third stage of the rule of law procedure, which would mean the triggering of the measures under Article 7 of Treaty of the European Union. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Not the Right Way to Bring Yanukovych to Trial
The Kremlin is well known for pulling former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych out of hiding for its own purposes. Now Ukraine’s leaders have been accused of using Yanukovych as an excuse to push legislation that may have dangerous repercussions for Ukraine’s justice system—while not necessarily bringing Yanukovych and his cronies...
43% of Russians feel proud of Russia’s annexation of Crimea
Russians are united only in pride at the Soviet Union’s victory in the Second World War over 70 years ago, according to a survey by the renowned Levada Centre. The survey is, however, telling also in what it does not ask and in the framing of the questions, with this particularly applying to the one question about Crimea. …read more...
Russia moves from armed invasion of Crimea to 5-year sentences for Ukrainians who object
Exactly three years after Russian soldiers with machine guns, but no insignia seized control in Crimea, a Ukrainian journalist has gone on trial, accused of ‘public calls to violate Russian territorial integrity’ for an article in which he called this occupation and expressed the wish that it would end …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Russia: Deeply alarming raid targets human rights activist and journalist Zoya Svetova
Amnesty International believes the search to have been a blatant attempt by the authorities to interfere with her legitimate work as a journalist and perhaps a warning for her and others of the risks of human rights work and independent journalism in Russia …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
A Loss for Ukraine and One Tortured Ukrainian Political Prisoner
Viktor Parshutkin, a Russian lawyer who became well-known in Ukraine for forcing Russia to withdraw falsified charges against Ukrainian political prisoner Serhiy Lytvynov has died suddenly in Moscow at the age of 56. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Freed from prison, Russian activist says he was ’broken’ by abuse
Hours after his release from prison, Russian political activist Ildar Dadin recounted how he was “broken” by physical abuse during his 15 months behind bars. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine’s Bitter Struggle: The Prequel
On ‘Bitter Harvest’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
