Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Russian lawyers face reprisals for defending tortured Ukrainian prisoners
Russia’s contempt for the law demonstrated in the trial of Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh who were illegally imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to over 20 years on trumped-up charges has now extended to the lawyers defending them. . …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Chafing at sanctions, Moscow pokes and pries at EU unity
Moscow is reaching out to EU states to undermine the bloc’s unity in hopes of encouraging them to use their power of veto to ultimately end or dilute the sanctions regime, which requires unanimous renewal every six months. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Court refuses to find Crimean Tatar remembrance unlawful
The first good news from any court since Russia invaded and annexed Crimea caught everybody unawares. On June 7, the Sudak City Court found nothing illegal about the actions of four Crimean Tatars detained on May 18 for a peaceful act of remembrance …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Anti-corruption organizations demand action on Yanukovych regime prosecutions
Transparency International Ukraine, lawyers representing the families of the Heavenly Hundred and other anti-corruption organizations point to the failure of Ukraine’s law enforcement bodies to convict even one high-ranking official of the previous regime. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Another Ukrainian charged with ‘terrorism’ in Russian-occupied Crimea
Another ‘terrorism’ trial is about to begin of a Ukrainian arrested in occupied Crimea and held in custody for over a year. Maxim Filatov, who may be as young as 21, is alleged to be a fighter from the Azov Battalion. though this appears as questionable as everything else about the case. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Tortured Ukrainian demands formal apology from Russia for insane prosecution
Serhiy Lytvynov, the Luhansk oblast resident abducted in Russia and tortured into confessing to war crimes that never happened, is demanding a formal apology for his unlawful prosecution. This he has the right to by law, and his lawyer Viktor Parshutkin plans to take the matter to court if Russia’s Prosecutor General fails to react....
Repression in Belarus has increased since EU sanctions removed
Human rights activists warn that the significantly increased use of fines against peaceful protesters and the increasing use of the death penalty shows that the EU’s softening attitude to Alexander Lukashenko’s regime is misguided. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean peaceful protesters learn the hard way what ’Russian world’ means
Among the 50 or more Crimeans violently dispersed while trying to hold a peaceful protest on June 4 was one communist deputy who played an extremely active role in supporting Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia forces own ‘defence’ in trial without a crime of 4 Crimean Tatars
Russia’s trial of 4 Crimean Tatars on gravely flawed ‘terrorism’ charges began on June 1 as expected – with a flagrant but telling infringement of the men’s right to a fair trial. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia Steps Up Terror with Abduction of Crimean Tatar Activist Ervin Ibragimov
It is 10 days since Crimean Tatar activist Ervin Ibragimov was abducted from near his home in Bakhchysarai and there are very grave fears for his safety. This is not the first forced disappearance since Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. It will also not be the last while there remains so little international reaction …read more Source:...
