Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Crimean taken by force to Russia dies in prison, refused medical care
One of the many Ukrainian prisoners forcibly moved to Russia after the latter invaded and occupied Crimea has died in a Russian prison, with the Russian authorities having ignored even the European Court of Human Rights …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Any Vote Is A Vote For Putinism
Russian opposition politician Garry Kasparov follows Crimean Tatar leader Refat Chubarov and Kyiv in stressing that the international community must refuse to recognize the results of Russia’s parliamentary elections, which it is illegally holding also in occupied Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean savagely beaten for Ukrainian symbols faces ‘extremism’ charges
Ihor Movenko is in a Sevastopol hospital with severe injuries after being brutally beaten over the Ukrainian symbols and an Battalion sticker on his bike. It was Movenko who had his hands bound after the enforcement officers arrived, and he is now facing charges for so-called ‘extremism’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
The Top Ten Things Ukraine’s Parliament Needs to Do This Fall
Despite the ruling coalition’s fragility in parliament, civil society activists hope MPs will unite over crucial initiatives to ensure the passage of these ten changes: …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia uses threats to claim legitimacy through illegal elections in occupied Crimea
Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Refat Chubarov has addressed all Crimeans calling on them to boycott the Russian parliamentary elections which Russia is insisting on holding in annexed Crimea. His appeal coincides with a Ukrainian parliamentary resolution asking the international community to join Ukraine in not recognizing the elections in Crimea....
Russia: Journalist Zhalaudi Geriev Punished for Chechnya Reporting
A court in Chechnya on September 5, 2016, sentenced a local independent journalist to three years in prison on dubious drug possession charges, Human Rights Watch has reported …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Tatars sentenced for kitchen chat in Russian-occupied Crimean ‘conveyor belt trial’
The sentences could have been much worse which is the only positive thing to say about the conviction on Wednesday of four Crimean Tatars on trumped up charges. The men’s defiant T-shirts and taped mouths said it all.. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Umerov Released: Only Russia’Persecution Showed Pathology
What Russia was hoping to achieve by risking Umerov’s life and resorting to punitive psychiatry remains unclear. Presumably not the actual result, namely to highlight the Soviet-style repression unleashed since Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
5-year sentence for vicious beating of Maidan activist
Volodymyr Savytsky has been sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment for the brutal beating of a Euromaidan activist in February 2014. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia stages new armed ’mask show’ in Crimean Mosque
For the third time since Russia’s invasion of Crimea, an armed ‘search’ has been carried out of the Mosque / Muslim Cultural Centre Sozidanye [Creation] in Simferopol. As on previous occasions, the armed men in masks were on the hunt for ‘prohibited literature’, and, conveniently, ‘found’ it – this time with insulting...
