Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Russia dumps the International Criminal Court after report on Crimea. Liability for war crimes remains
Despite numerous misleading headlines, Russia cannot dramatically leave the International Criminal Court since it has never joined in the first place. It could, however, have ratified the Rome Statute and now doesn’t want to, presumably because of such unkind words as ‘military conflict’ and ‘occupation’. …read more...
Russia awards Ukrainian political prisoner $15 ’compensation’ for torture & wrongful imprisonment
Abducted from hospital, tortured and held in Russian detention for 10 months on totally fictitious ‘war crimes charges’, Serhiy Lytvynov has been awarded ‘compensation’ – about 15 US dollars worth …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
International Criminal Court demolishes Russia’s narrative on Crimean annexation
Russia’s attempts to distort the picture regarding its invasion and annexation of Crimea, and military engagement in Eastern Ukraine received a significant blow on Nov 14 in the hard-hitting conclusions published by the International Criminal Court’s Office of the Prosecutor …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Kyiv locked down as hundreds protest Ukraine’s government
Demonstrators shout slogans while they take part in a rally of depositors in failed Ukrainian banks who demanded compensation of their deposits, in front of the parliament building in Kyiv on November 15. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
’Last hope of police reform in Ukraine dead’ as key reformer resigns, leaving contentious deputy in charge
Khatia Dekonoidze has resigned as Head of National Police seemingly in frustration at limited scope to carry out real reform and political interference. She also says that Vadim Troyan, now Acting Head, is not politically independent and therefore unsuited to the post. These are not the only concerns about Troyan’s suitability for high...
International protest over Russian FSB arrest of well-known Crimean scholars
The FSB has posted videoed ‘confessions’ from two of its three alleged ‘Crimean saboteurs’, both renowned academics, but has not allowed lawyers to see the men. The third man, Volodymyr Dudka, a retired military man, was allowed to briefly see a lawyer and told her that his ‘confession’ was extracted through threats to his...
‘Arrests’ claimed over killing of Russian Donbas mercenary & war criminal ‘Motorola’
Kremlin-backed militants claim that they have arrested 6 people responsible for the explosion that killed Arseny Pavlov [‘Motorola’], the Russian mercenary wanted by Ukraine for war crimes in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia holds Ukrainian hostages thousands of kilometers from their families
Russia is holding Sasha Kolchenko, Oleg Sentsov and many other Ukrainian political prisoners thousands of kilometres away from their families. Helping Larisa Kolchenko visit Sasha is just one of the tasks of a wonderful initiative by Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan on his Zhadan and Dogs rock tour …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Estonian national charged with terrorism over involvement in Kremlin-backed conflict in Donbas
Although 35-year-old Vladimir Polyakov’s lawyer has condemned the imminent trial as ‘political’, this was not the view of the Estonian courts who agreed to his extradition, and the charges are almost the same as those brought in the United Kingdom against Ben Stimson for his activities in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
US Mission to the OSCE: Russia’s Ongoing Violations in Ukraine
The ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine appears to be unraveling, and violence has reached peak levels not seen since August 2015, while there are ongoing concerns about human rights abuse and Russian military buildup in occupied Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
