Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Russia moves to silence Levada Centre after damning public opinion polls
The Russian Justice Ministry has added the Levada Centre to its list of ‘foreign agents’, placing the internationally respected public opinion pollster’s very existence in jeopardy. The move comes just days after the Centre reported a major slump in support for the ruling United Russia Party. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Free Ilmi Umerov! Stop Political Terror in the Crimea!
Statement of the Ukrainian Center of the International PEN …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Dangerous & Senseless Arson Attack on TV Inter for ’pro-Russian Position’
Irresponsible protesters who attacked the offices of TV Inter on Sunday afternoon have done Ukraine no favours. Their actions were not just dangerous and unacceptable, but stupidly counter-productive, making the Interior Minister’s reference to his serious allegations against the channel seem ill-timed. …read more Source: Kharkiv...
Silence on Critical Verdict Will Free Kremlin Hand for More Repression in Crimea
Russia is already imprisoning 14 Crimean Muslims, almost all Crimean Tatars, on trumped-up charges. Without international protest, that number is certain to rise, with Russia as occupier of Crimea using such conveyor-belt prosecutions to imprison rights activists or others who take a strong civic position …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
Pro-Kremlin Media Lies as International Pressure Mounts to Free Umerov
International protest over Russia’s prosecution and punitive psychiatry against Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov has not gone unnoticed in Moscow. The demands for his immediate release are unheeded, but a newspaper close to the Kremlin has produced a supposed ‘interview’ trying to discredit Umerov and refute all grounds for protest....
ADC “Memorial” and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group welcomes the Concluding observations of the UN CERD addressed to the government of Ukraine
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination published its concluding observations and recommendations following consideration of the 22-23 State periodic report of Ukraine and the alternative materials from non-profit organizations …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Strasbourg wants answers about Russia’s alleged ‘Ukrainian Crimea saboteur’ prisoner
Russia is continuing to hold Ukrainian Yevhen Panov prisoner in occupied Crimea, and preventing him from seeing an independent lawyer. The European Court of Human Rights has responded with hard-hitting questions about the legal grounds for the Ukrainian being deprived of his liberty, the origin of ‘injuries and legal defence …read...
Mothers of Slain Beslan Victims Detained & Prosecuted for Silent Protest
Five mothers of children killed during the storming of School No. 1 in Beslan on September 3, 2004 ended up in court on Thursday after being roughly detained for a totally peaceful protest. During the remembrance ceremony they all took off cardigans revealing T-shirts with the words ‘Putin is the Executioner of Beslan’ …read...
Russia’s Supreme Court rules that the USSR did not invade Poland in 1939
Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of Perm blogger Vladimir Luzgin for reposting a text which states that both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939. The Supreme Court’s ruling came on September 1, 2016, the 77th anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, 17 days before the anniversary of the...
Russia reinstates Soviet jamming to silence criticism of its occupation of Crimea
Russia’s censor has blocked the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre over a press conference given by the world-renowned Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemiliev and others. In it they called for a civil blockade until Russia released Crimean political prisoners, stopped crushing freedom of speech, etc. Russia’s response has been to step up...
