Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Holodomor Remembrance Day: Why the Past Matters for the Future
A girl holds a lamp next to a monument with inscriptions of locations that suffered in the Holodomor famine, during a commemoration ceremony for the victims …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
More ’Ukrainian Crimea Saboteur’ Arrests For Russian Propaganda
Two more Crimeans have been arrested and remanded in custody accused by Russia of planning acts of ‘sabotage’. Typically the main news source was provided by Dmitry Kiselyov, described by the BBC as ‘Russia’s chief spin doctor’, in a long feature under the title ‘The latest failure by Ukrainian intelligence: saboteurs failed to...
Ukrainians Tortured & Imprisoned in Russia’s Revenge for Maidan
How large a role the Kremlin played in trying to crush Ukraine’s Euromaidan protests still needs to be established, but Russia’s politically motivated prosecutions of Ukrainians who took part in Maidan certainly suggest an element of revenge. On this 3rd anniversary of Euromaidan, spare a thought for the Maidan activists now serving...
Court in Hague sent report on international crimes in Russian occupied Crimea
International and Ukrainian human rights groups have compiled an important report entitled International Crimes in Crimea: An Assessment of two and a half years of Russian occupation. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Another supposed ’Ukrainian Crimean saboteur’ hostage found on Russian TV
A fourth Ukrainian arrested by Russia and accused of being part of a ‘Crimean sabotage’ plot in early August has been identified through close scrutiny of Russian state-controlled television …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine’s Security Service’s strange collaboration with Russia in its political persecution of opponents
Ukraine’s Security Service [SBU] appears to be collaborating with its Russian FSB counterpart even where there are strong grounds for believing that FSB interest in Russian citizens living in Ukraine is as politically motivated as its persecution of Ukrainians in occupied Crimea and Russia …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Russian prosecuted for defending Ukraine against Kremlin-backed militants
Russia’s Investigative Committee has announced criminal proceedings against a Russian national alleged to have fought on Ukraine’s side in the military conflict in Donbas. There have been no criminal cases brought against those paid to fight on the side of the Kremlin-backed militants …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Jailed & now subjected to punitive psychiatry for being Muslim in Russian-occupied Crimea
Muslim Aliev, a Crimean Tatar held in detention since armed and masked men burst into his home, terrifying his children, in February this year, has now been forcibly placed in a psychiatric clinic in Simferopol. There are fears that he and other political prisoners will face undisclosed ‘psychiatric treatment’. …read more Source:...
The Russian Plot against Europe
There is no single formula for how Russia projects power in Europe, but the goal of its Trojan Horse strategy is the same: to build a web of political leaders, parties, and civil society organizations that will legitimize Russia’s aims to destabilize European unity and undermine European values …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
UN Resolution on the Human Rights Situation in Crimea
The most hard-hitting UN statement yet on Russia’s occupation of Crimea and ongoing human rights abuse …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
