Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Russia hides Ukrainian sentenced to 12 years for a snapshot of cows at a disused aerodrome
After concocting a ‘trial’ on truly surreal ‘spying’ charges to imprison Ukrainian Viktor Shur, Russia has since deployed any means to prevent him having contact with the Ukrainian consul and lawyers …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian poet faces prison sentence for supporting Ukraine
The prosecutor in the latest trial of Russian poet Alexander Byvshev has demanded a two-and-a-half prison sentence for a poem entitled ‘On Ukraine’s Independence’. This is not the first time that 45-year-old Byvshev has faced criminal proceedings over his poetry, but the outcome this time could be devastating, since Byvshev is the...
Russian Historian of the Terror Yuri Dmitriev acquitted of main charges
In a step back from the brink, a court in Russia has acquitted renowned historian Yuri Dmitriev of manifestly absurd charges for which the prosecutor had demanded a nine-year maximum security prison sentence. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia to recruit young Crimean kids for Internet propaganda about Crimea
Crimean youth are to be enlisted for filling the Internet with ‘correct information’ about life in Russian-occupied Crimea, with the occupiers determining just what content is ‘correct’, and what is to be dubbed ‘fake’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
In Memory: Yuri Soloshenko, the Kremlin’s oldest Ukrainian hostage
Yuri Soloshenko, Ukrainian pensioner and one of the first hostages of Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine, has died less than two years after his release from Russian captivity . …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine’s Ombudsman takes unprecedented and contentious step in defence of LGBT rights
Ukraine’s Anti-Discrimination Ombudsperson has set an important, though controversial, precedent by demanding that a petition purporting to ‘defend family values’ be removed from the President’s official website as in violation of the rights of sexual minorities and inciting discrimination. The petition in question “asked for...
Petition regarding the ongoing failure to allow Azerbaijani journalist Fikret Huseynli to leave Ukraine
The Prosecutor’s office has effectively stolen Azerbaijani journalist Fikret Huseynli’s passport despite a court ruling which makes it possible for him to leave Ukraine …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Maidan activist arrested on suspicion of killing Berkut spetsnaz officers
Ivan Bubenchyk, the Maidan activist and veteran of the war in Donbas who was reported to have told a journalist in 2016 that he had shot and killed two Berkut special purpose police officers during Euromaidan has been arrested on suspicion of two murders and one attempted murder. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia uses hate speech to stir up fear and hatred of Ukrainians in occupied Crimea
Russia is deliberately creating an atmosphere of fear and aggression in occupied Crimea with Ukraine and Ukrainians pitched as ‘the enemy’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia hurts political prisoners in revenge for Ukraine’s expulsion of diplomats
Russia has responded to Ukraine’s expulsion of 13 diplomats with nominal symmetry, but brutal precision, targeting both Moscow and the consulate in Rostov where many of Russia’s politically-motivated trials of Ukrainians are held. Rostov also borders areas of Donbas under Kremlin-backed militant control, and Russia would doubtless...
