Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Even Russian Prosecutor General criticizes anti-protest law used to jail Ildar Dadin
Russia’s Constitutional Court is due to give its judgement on a notorious article of the criminal code used to imprison civic activist Ildar Dadin for totally peaceful protest. Courts in Russia at all levels almost invariably uphold politically-motivated rulings, and the Court will almost certainly reject Dadin’s appeal, however there...
Historical Truth Banned in Russian-Occupied Crimea
Where Russia cannot prosecute for annoyingly inconvenient but entirely provable truth, it opts for bans. This appears to have now happened with the Kyiv-based website Istorychna Pravda [Historical Truth …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
American-Born Doctor Takes on Ukraine’s Health Care System
Ulana Suprun is a woman on a mission. The 53-year-old radiologist from New York who was appointed Ukraine’s Acting Minister of Health in July is determined to shake up Ukraine’s sclerotic health care system …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Putin’s “Personal Army” to crush dissent with special electric shock batons
Members of the new National Guard which the Kremlin has acknowledged may be used against ‘unauthorized mass protests’ are to be armed with electric-shock batons with a range of 5 metres and stun grenades. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Journalist faces mandatory 5-year sentence for saying Russia should leave Crimea
Any lingering doubt that Russia would genuinely convict a journalist for expressing the same position as the United National and all democratic countries has now been quashed. On Jan 20, Mykola Semena and his lawyer were presented with an indictment that is both eerily Soviet and openly surreal …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Russian media distort mass anti-Trump protests, while Trump blasts ‘dishonest’ US media
Russia broke with a tradition extending far back into Soviet times this weekend. Anti-government protests are normally top news for pro-Kremlin media, but not this time. News of First Lady Melania Trump’s venture onto Twitter got more headline coverage on at least one website, and the photos everywhere appeared carefully selected to conceal...
The First Maidan Victims
It is three years since Maidan activists Serhiy Nihoyan and Mikhail Zhyznevsky were killed on Hrushevsky St in Kyiv. 21-year-old Serhiy Nihoyan died first, killed by sniper bullets to the head and chest. An hour later it was learned that 25-year-old Mikail Zhyznevsky had also been shot and killed …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Top Ukraine court posts for super-rich judges & defender of Yanukovych’s dictatorship laws?
Among the candidates for posts in the Supreme Court [SCU] are the former President of the Court who justified Viktor Yanukovych’s draconian ‘dictatorship’ laws and judges involved in politically motivated prosecutions. The CHESNO civic movement has sounded the alarm to ensure that purportedly fair competition does not re-establish the...
Commentary: Means, goals and consequences of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign
There is no doubt that the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign is an orchestrated strategy, delivering the same disinformation stories in as many languages as possible, through as many channels as possible, and as often as possible. Our conclusion is based on 15 months of daily collection of data on disinformation: more than 2,500 examples in 18...
Russian Poet Faces New Criminal Charges for Poem in Support of Ukraine
Alexander Byvshev is facing another prosecution under Russia’s ‘anti-extremism’ legislation over a poem entitled ‘On Ukraine’s Independence’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
