Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
How Far Will Putin Dare to Go in 2017?
From Brexit to Trump, 2016 was the year fake news became headline news. In Ukraine, however, it was old news. Ukrainians are living through the third winter of an ongoing hybrid war with Russia, a conflict driven to a remarkable degree by fake news. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine’s High Council of Justice fights back against measures to combat judicial corruption
Corrupt judges can breathe a sigh of relief. An amendment to Ukraine’s Constitution restricting judges’ immunity from arrest in cases where they have been caught committing an offence has been deftly ‘readjusted’ by the High Council of Justice …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia wants to discredit Minsk Agreement to get sanctions removed without leaving Donbas
The Kremlin-backed militants in Donbas keep coming up with new huge lists of people whose release they demand in exchange for Ukrainian soldiers and civilians held hostage. Some of the people are completely unknown, while others have committed murders or other grave crimes with no connection to the war in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv...
Over half the Berkut officers suspected of Maidan killings given shelter by Russia
12 of 23 ex-Berkut officers suspected of gunning down protesters in the last bloody days of Euromaidan have now received Russian citizenship or leave to remain as ‘refugees’. It appears now that 3 other officers on trial over the deaths have been added to the list of people to be handed over in exchange for Ukrainian hostages. …read...
Ukrainian rights groups unite to fight torture amid dangerous escalation in Donbas
While the use of torture by the police in areas not directly affected by the military conflict appears to have decreased, the scale of abuse and major rights violations in Russian-occupied Crimea and in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts has increased alarmingly since the military conflict began in 2014 …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Ukraine Files Action against Russia in International Court of Justice
Ukraine alleges that the Russian Federation is violating the Terrorism Financing Convention by supplying weapons and other forms of assistance to illegal armed groups operating on Ukrainian territory …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian teacher jailed for repost alerting of child abuse, punished for trying to keep warm
Yevhenia Chudnovets’ reposted 3-second video of a naked child being tormented resulted in the police intervening and the eventual imprisonment of two camp officials – and of Chudnovets. She was charged with ‘circulating child pornography’ for reposting the video which she says she did to draw attention to the abuse. …read more...
International NGOs should get the facts right re Ukraine’s ‘Ban’ on Russian TV Dozhd
Ukraine’s removal of the independent Russian Dozhd TV from cable networks elicited angry responses and accusations of ‘censorship’ from at least two international NGOs, neither of whom fully addressed the reason for the restrictions imposed, or what they did not entail.. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
FSB detains Ukrainian Cultural Centre activist & his wife in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia’s FSB is preparing ‘extremism’ charges against yet another pro-Ukrainian Crimean, a young mother of two small children, with the pretext this time being a post on the social network VKontakte. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Top anti-corruption post for persecutor of well-known Ukrainian human rights activist?
The likely appointment of Dmytro Rudenko to a top post in Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau has appalled many rights activists who remember his active role in the persecution of Vinnytsa human rights activist Dmytro Groysman. It raises questions also as to how he came to be appointed head of the Khmelnytsky National Police back in...
