Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Russia moves to silence imprisoned Crimean Tatar leader
Russia’s most openly lawless prosecution since occupying Crimea has descended to a new low with the refusal to allow Crimean Tatar leader Akhtem Chiygoz to even attend his own court hearings and the unfounded decision to separate the proceedings into two trials. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Hybrid Business — The Risks in the Kremlin’s weaponization of the economy
“How many divisions does the pope have?” Josef Stalin was meant to have asked contemptuously. Today the question could as easily be posed: How many companies does the Kremlin have? …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Pavel Sheremet: “You can’t be ready to be killed”
The above words, spoken about Pavel Sheremet’s friend Boris Nemtsov are bitterly poignant, as is so much else on a dark day, when the well-known and respected 44-year-old Belarusian journalist and former prisoner of conscience has himself been murdered. He died in Kyiv almost exactly two years after leaving Russian ORT in protest at the...
Judge who persecuted Maidan activists found to have done nothing wrong
The High Council of Justice has decided that Ludmila Kozyatnik, who was directly implicated in the persecution of Euromaidan activists, should not face dismissal from her judge’s post …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
A brief description of KHPG strategic litigations in the first half of 2016
Description of cases that KHPG Strategic Litigation Center considered in the period January – June of 2016. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukraine’s Sentsov ’Victim of Vindictive System,’ says European Filmmaker
Mike Downey, a film producer and the deputy head of the European Film Academy, spoke with RFE/RL about why Sentsov’s case remains important to people across Europe …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Ukrainians Beware! Avoiding Arrest in Russian-Occupied Crimea in the Face of Mounting Repression
New FSB interrogations only confirm the need for the advice just issued by the Crimean Human Rights Group for Ukrainians wanting to avoid being arrested for ‘extremist’ views such as Crimea is Ukraine. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Genuine Investigations and Prosecutions for Increasing Crimes Committed in Eastern Ukraine Urgently Needed
Paris-Kharkiv, 19 July 2016. After a three-day seminar on documenting human rights violations held for Ukrainian lawyers and human rights defenders in Kharkiv from 4 to 6 July 2016, our organisations express their concern on the prevalent climate of impunity for crimes committed since the beginning of the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine....
Bellingcat says Russia used ‘fake evidence’ to point finger at Kyiv in downing of MH17
The Russian Defence Ministry published doctored, misdated satellite imagery to support its suggestion that Ukraine was responsible for downing of a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014, independent investigation group Bellingcat alleges in a new report. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Mass protest in occupied Donbas: “We want the system we had under Ukraine”
Attempts by Kremlin-backed militants in Horlivka to milk small business owners has prompted the first mass demonstration in the city since 2014. Over a thousand people, came out in protest against the militants’ methods for extracting money, demanding a system like that they had under Ukrainian government control. …read more Source:...
