Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Archbishop Kliment appeals to Russian religious leaders to help free Umerov, other Crimean political prisoners
Archbishop Kliment, the Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Kyiv Patriarchate in Crimea which is itself facing persecution has called on Russian Patriarch Kirill and the Russian Supreme Mufti to help secure the release of Umerov, Chiygoz, Sentsov, Kolchenko and all those Ukrainian nationals persecuted for their convictions under...
Elderly Pensioner Arrested by Kremlin-backed militants for a Ukrainian flag
73-year-old Anna Ivanivna Hrusha was first attacked, then manhandled by Kremlin-backed militants on Ukrainian Flag Day and held for many hours, facing threats and abuse. She has no intention of being cowered, saying that she is in her native homeland …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Terrifying Precedent Set by Authorities’ Response to Violent Anti-Roma Pogrom
Disturbances on August 27 in Loshchynivka (Odesa oblast) have resulted in the targeted ethnic group ‘agreeing’ to leave the area, and being too fearful to even return to collect their possessions. There are differences from the pogroms of the past, but there are also some very worrying similarities, including how the authorities and law...
Remembering the Victims of Putin’s Ilovaisk Treachery
On August 29, Ukrainians honoured the memory of all those soldiers killed exactly two years ago in the Ilovaisk Battle in which Russian President Vladimir Putin played a major – and treacherous – role. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
HRW and Amnesty International distorted their own picture on abuses in Ukraine
Ukraine’s SBU [Security Service] heeded well-deserved criticism from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and released 13 people it had been holding in a secret prison. As a result, both the SBU and Ukraine in general received a second hammering from the same NGOs. Perhaps it was still deserved, but it made for an extremely...
How to Manufacture a War
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office has released what it says are recordings of intercepted telephone conversations between Kremlin aide Sergei Glazyev and proxies in Ukraine, in which he gives them specific instructions about instigating unrest in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, and Odesa as early as February 2014 …read more...
Russia steps up torture of Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov amid protest over return of punitive psychiatry
Russia is ignoring international protest over its use of punitive psychiatry against Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov. As well as continuing practice that could endanger the 59-year-old’s life still further, men facing criminal charges have been placed in the same room as him. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Horrific police killing elicits assurances of a shakeup & local fears of a cover-up
Three police officers are currently in detention after a 32-year-old man was beaten and fatally shot while in handcuffs in the early hours of August 24. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Behind The Scenes In Ukraine, Ties To Putin Help Power Broker Pull Strings
More than a decade ago, Viktor Medvedchuk became known as the “Gray Cardinal” because his low profile masked unparalleled clout in the halls of power in Ukraine. These days, detractors call the millionaire tycoon and backroom politician with close personal ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin: tthe Prince of Darkness. …read...
1 year on Sentsov & Kolchenko remain jailed & isolated, their persecutors untouched
Civic activists have marked the first anniversary of the sentences passed on Crimean filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko by handing down their own verdicts on the Kremlin and the investigators, prosecutors and judges directly implicated in that show trial. Real liability, however, remains largely theoretical …read...
