Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
FSB descends on Ekho Moskvy over article on Chechnya
Russia’s FSB have carried out a search at the offices of the independent radio station Ekho Moskvy and removed electronic correspondence between the station and political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky. Several members of staff have also been summoned for interrogation …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Defending a national hero or dangerous extrajudicial methods?
The events on July 2 around the detention of former Aidar commander Valentyn Lykholit elicited widely divergent reactions and some worrying assumptions about what need not be considered in fighting ‘separatists’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean activist detained for defence of political prisoners Sentsov & Kolchenko
The organizer of a small picket calling for the release of, among others, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko was detained on Saturday in Russian-occupied Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Rafis Kashapov spends 2nd birthday in prison for criticizing Russian annexation of Crimea
Veteran Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemiliev is surely speaking for all Ukrainians in addressing birthday greetings to Russian Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov and his twin brother Nafis on their 58th birthday. For all, in fact, appalled by the monstrous sentence passed on Rafis Kashapov for social network posts criticizing Russia’s...
Russian fined for reposting that the USSR & Nazi Germany invaded Poland
37-year-old Vladimir Luzgin has been convicted and fined 200 thousand roubles for reposting a text which correctly states that the Soviet Union, in collaboration with Hitler, invaded Poland in 1939. A Russian prosecutor claimed and a court in Perm accepted that Luzgin was guilty of posting “knowingly false information”. …read more Source:...
Minority Rights Group: On the situation in Crimea
In order to avoid further escalation of tensions between Crimean Tatars and the de facto authorities, MRG urges the international community to send a strong message to the Russian Federation, emphasizing its obligation to secure the human rights of Crimean Tatars as indigenous people of Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
“Christ did not write denunciations!” Protest at mounting repression in Russia
Courageous believers have held a third picket in Moscow affirming that denunciations and prosecutions for ‘offending believers’ feelings’ run counter to Christ’s teachings. Their protest came as Russia’s upper house of parliament passed a law which criminalizes failure to denounce others and makes it possible to prosecute...
Kremlin Donbas Proxies launch Russian-style ‘fight against Ukrainian extremism’
While Russia continues, without any credibility, to deny its undeclared war against Ukraine, the Kremlin’s proxies in Donbas are introducing measures to ‘combat the ideology of extremism and terrorism’ copied straight from the Russian original. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Human rights activist faces 2-year sentence under Russia’s notorious ‘foreign agent’ law
If convicted of ‘maliciously evading’ compliance with the demands of Russia’s law on ‘foreign agents’, human rights activist Valentina Cherevatenko could face up to 2 years’ imprisonment. Her organization’s problems began after initiating a project aimed at monitoring implementation of the Minsk Agreement on the war...
Using Democracy as a Weapon
There was something obscenely ironic about Kremlin officials and surrogates cheering the results of the Brexit referendum, given that a similar democratic exercise could never take place in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
