Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Fighting corruption the Ukrainian way: new elements
Overview of the activities of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and of the difficulties it encounters when carrying out its functions …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Interior Minister accused of hate speech against those forced to flee Donbas
Donbas-East SOS and other civic organizations have reacted with anger to remarks made on Friday by Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s Interior Minister regarding Ukrainians displaced by the fighting in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Prosecutor demands harsher sentence for Crimean Tatar political prisoner
There are absolutely no grounds, but the case against Ruslan Zeitullayev; Ferat Saifullayev; Rustem Vaitov and Nuri Primov now looks bad for the prosecutor, since even the court in Rostov could not ignore the lack of any evidence to back the charges and passed the minimum sentences possible. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Executed and tortured in Donbass
Arbitrary and extrajudicial killings, torture, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detentions. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Human Rights Violations in the so-called LNR and DNR: legislation and Practice
Since there are no prospects for an early end to the occupation of Donbas territories, it is necessary to examine the social reality that has emerged in the LNR and the DNR and, in particular, the human rights situation, both at the normative level and in practice. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Destructions in Donbas. Scale, attempts at reconstruction and perspectives for redress for victims
In March 2014, Eastern regions of Ukraine became an arena of the Russian secret services’ “Russian Spring” plan, aiming to pull a large part of Ukrainian territories out of Ukrainian jurisdiction. These actions were supported by a wide information campaign in the Russian Federation. As a result of resistance from the Ukrainian...
Roma Victims Remembered at Babyn Yar
As the 75th anniversary approaches of the massacre of 33 thousand Ukrainian Jews at Babyn Yar, Ukraine’s religious leaders have joined in a memorial service for the Nazis’ Roma victims killed at what was then a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
No Mercy for Crimean Journalist Facing 5-Year Sentence for Opposing Russian Occupation
Mykola Semena, a 66-year-old Crimean journalist has been refused permission to travel to Kyiv for an urgently needed operation following a spinal injury. Without the operation, Semena could face irreparable damage to his health, making him an invalid. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine’s UK Ambassador issues open letter over propagandist Graham Phillips’
Phillips’ appalling treatment of a maimed hostage has aroused particular anger and revulsion, but the Ambassador points out that it is only one of many episodes …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Numbers Don’t Lie: Statistics Point To Massive Fraud In Russia’s Duma Vote
According to one estimate, ” the scope of the falsification in favor of United Russia in these elections amounted to approximately 12 million votes” …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
