Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Russia flouts its own Supreme Court to revenge Ukrainian Maidan activist
A Kirov court on June 16 ignored not only the fact that Russia is illegally holding Oleksandr Kostenko in prison, but the Russian Supreme Court’s guidelines on parole. Nothing, it seems, matters if the order has come to convict a person and then make sure he serves the sentence to the end. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Ukraine’s Grassroots Transformation of Education
The Center for Innovative Education, better known as or Pro.Svit, works to provide Ukraine’s teachers with tools for professional and personal growth …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
How can Ukraine turn away friends fleeing persecution in Russia?
While Ukraine’s leaders actively protest against Russia’s political trials of Ukrainians, politically motivated charges against Russian nationals are cited as reasons for rejecting asylum requests …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Grave concerns for tortured Ukrainian hostage as Russia concocts new charges
The 10 months in which Ukrainian Stanislav Klykh was illegally held and tortured by Russian investigators, with no access to lawyers or to his family, have left deep psychological, as well as physical scars on the 42-year-old historian. It is his clearly disturbed state which makes the new ‘investigation’ against him particularly cynical....
25 Days since Ervin Ibragimov’s Abduction – Join in Solidarity Against Terror in Occupied Crimea
Crimean Tatars will be gathering on Sunday evening from 18.00 to 19.00 Crimean time to pray together for the young Crimean Tatar activist abducted on May 24.. If the occupation authorities do not try to stop them from holding what Russia would call an ‘unauthorized meeting’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Kremlin Propaganda in Czech Republic plays long game to sow distrust in EU
Sowing distrust and disbelief in Europe and its institutions is the main aim of Russian propaganda in the Czech Republic, according to a new study. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Pressure on Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Occupied Crimea Intensifies
While not daring to provoke international protest by openly banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Kyiv Patriarchate, the occupation regime has from the outset done everything to drive its clergy and believers away, including the latest eviction and attacks on churches. Archbishop Kliment says that the pressure is mounting and he has...
Crimean Newspaper Editor Arrested
The staff of the newspaper Argumenty Nedeli – Krym have reported the arrest and detention of the paper’s Chief Editor Alexei Sapov, and link it with his journalist work. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia Uses Suspect ‘Secret Witness’ for Concocted Crimean ‘Terrorism’ Trial
Ruslan Zeitullayev is spending his second birthday in custody, facing absurd charges. Please help inform the press and your governments of this case – pressure is needed to force Russia to put an end to this terror and help Ruslan and the others return home to their families …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Interpol refuses to search for Russian militant suspected of war crimes in Donbas
It is an undoubted war crime to murder a prisoner of war in cold blood, and the murder of Donetsk Airport defender Ihor Branovytsky is only one of the crimes which Russian national Arseny Pavlov, otherwise known as Motorola, is suspected of having committed in eastern Ukraine, yet Interpol has decided that Ukraine has ‘political...
