Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Kremlin’s Donbas proxies congratulate UK for ’doing what they did’ & voting for Brexit
The Kremlin-backed militants of the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DNR] have congratulated Britons on voting to leave the European Union, and compared Brexit to their ‘referendum’ in 2014. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
“When We Return”: Poignant Affirmation on Crimean Tatar Flag Day
The largest Crimean Tatar Flag in the world was unfurled in Kyiv on June 26, marking the 25th anniversary of a profoundly poignant anniversary for Crimean Tatars. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Say No to Terror against Crimean Tatar Rights Activist Kuku & his Children on His 40th Birthday!
The children of Crimean Muslims imprisoned in Russian-occupied Crimea on fictitious ‘terrorism’ charges have been accosted and frightened by FSB officers who tell them that their fathers are in prison and will stay there …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New attempts to force Russian citizenship on Crimean political prisoner
Oleksandr Kolchenko, the Ukrainian civic activist tried together with filmmaker Oleg Sentsov on involvement in a non-existent ‘terrorist plot’, has been refused a visit from the Ukrainian consul with the prison authorities claiming that Kolchenko is a Russian national. Most ominously, he is being put under pressure to sign a Russian...
How can they call Brexit democracy?
Britain’s parliament is not legally obliged to heed this referendum. It probably will, but should not claim that this is “the voice of the people” when those who will suffer most and the longest had no voice and certain politicians and media misinformed their readers about the critical facts …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
New ’anti-terrorist’ law to unleash terror on Russia and Occupied Crimea
Two and a half years after Ukraine’s Maidan forced the withdrawal of a law introducing sweeping dictatorial powers, Russia is set to pass a law which seems aimed at terrorizing and silencing civil society with direct impact for Ukrainians in Crimea under Russian occupation. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Beatings and Arson Attacks: Is Online Dissidence Becoming Dangerous in Russia?
There have been a string of assaults and arson attacks targeting Russians who have openly criticized their government on social-networking sites. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
New Russian Fake ‘Ukrainian Separatism’ Season Gets Underway
A fictitious ‘Assembly of Romanians of Bukovyna’ is for the second year running reported to be demanding greater autonomy for ethnic Romanians and complaining that the rights of minorities are violated in Ukraine …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Sentenced twice for pro-Ukrainian position in Russian-occupied Crimea
The good news that a court in Russian-occupied Crimea had revoked a politically motivated sentence against Volodymyr Balukh was short-lived. The pro-Ukrainian activist has been tried on exactly the same absurd charges and received an identical sentence. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Kremlin-backed militants refuse to release hostages of Putin’s Minsk II deceit
Any talk about easing sanctions against Russia for partial compliance must seem particularly insulting to the wives of two Ukrainian military officers – Oleksandr Korinkov and Serhiy Glondar – taken prisoner during the siege of Debaltseve in February 2015, four days after a supposed ceasefire agreed by Vladimir Putin in Minsk...
