Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Ukrainian court sabotages fight about judicial corruption
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau [NABU] has reacted with anger after a court rejected its application to have a Kyiv judge caught taking a huge bribe remanded in custody. The agency pulls no punches, calling the move sabotage and rejecting the court’s attempt to hide behind a dubious ‘statement’ issued recently by the High Council...
Igor Kotelyanets: On my brother Yevhen Panov & other political prisoners
Address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Donald Trump should ask Putin’s Ukrainian hostages how torture ‘works’
US President Donald Trump’s assertion in a recent interview that torture ‘works’ was shocking for several reasons, but it was also wrong. Most people, subjected to enough pain, will provide any answer to stop the torture. This is precisely why Russia’s FSB has systematically used such methods to imprison Ukrainian hostages....
A World That Didn’t React and Isn’t Now
This 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau feels frighteningly different from previous years. Developments over the last year have meant that for the first time very many people are confronting the possibility of a rise in totalitarianism, with the question “how could it happen?” no longer something for...
Dirty Russian Media Lies as Repression Mounts in Occupied Crimea
While armed searches and arrests were underway in Russian-occupied Crimea of a prominent human rights lawyer and the son of a veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement, Russian state-controlled media widely reported that a “special operation” was underway against supposed ‘terrorists’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Russia resorts to open terrorization of lawyers & their families in occupied Crimea
Emil Kurbedinov, one of the lawyers representing many of Russia’s Crimean political prisoners, was detained on Thursday, Jan 26. He and his colleague Edem Semedlyaev were heading to the home of a Crimean Tatar activist where a search and arrest was taking place. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia uses repression to remove witnesses to illegal arrests in occupied Crimea
Russia is continuing to use docile judges in occupied Crimea to impose unwarranted penalties on Crimean Tatars for entirely peaceful demonstrations of solidarity with families facing armed searches and arrests …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian FSB stage abduction to deprive Crimean Tatar leader of his lawyer
Instead of abandoning the extraordinary ‘separatism’ charges against Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov for rightly saying that Russia should stop occupying Crimea, Russia’s FSB are resorting to illegal measures aimed at preventing a well-known Russian lawyer from representing Umerov. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
EU Court confirms Russian military involvement in Donbas & upholds sanctions
The General Court of the European Union has rejected an appeal against the continuation of the sanctions imposed against a Russian state-owned anti-aircraft missile producer which has been actively surplying missile launchers and other weaponry used in the military conflict in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
On the Competition for the Post of Head of the National Police
A brief outline of the first stages of the competition …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
