Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Swedish TV SVT misleads viewers through Moreira’s ‘Masks of the Revolution’ film about Ukraine
Can lies that kill and distortion of events that have led to mass human rights violations be protected by the right to freedom of speech? Swedish TV SVT seems to think that they can since it has, despite strong protest, decided to broadcast Paul Moreira’s ‘Masks of the Revolution’ which gravely misrepresents Euromaidan, a tragedy in...
Tortured Ukrainian ‘Sentenced’ by Kremlin-backed militants to 30 years
A Ukrainian volunteer fighter from Makiyivka who is on Ukraine’s list for exchange has been ‘sentenced’ to 30 years in the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DNR]. The Kremlin-backed militants have ‘convicted’ Yevhen Chudnetsov of “an attempt to violently seize power on the republic’s territory”....
Soviet-era norm allows revenge prosecution of prisoners who assert their rights
Human rights activists have called for the adoption of draft bill 2708 which aims to remove the current possibility of extending prisoners’ sentences over alleged minor offences. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia convicts innocent Ukrainians of fighting in Chechnya
A jury in Grozny, Chechnya has found Ukrainians Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh guilty of fighting against Russian forces in Chechnya in 1994/95 and killing 31 soldiers. It thus ignored documentary evidence from the Memorial Human Rights Centre which demolished the entire indictment and clear evidence that the men had never been in Chechnya,...
Russian Protest Artist Pavlensky Alleges Police Brutality
Best known for such protest actions as nailing his scrotum to Red Square or cutting off a piece of his ear, Russian political-protest artist Pyotr Pavlensky continues to put his body on the line …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Crimean Muslims face 15-year Sentences for Invented ’Terrorism’
The trial has begun of four Crimean Muslims accused by Russia of involvement in an organization – Hizb ut-Tahrir – which is legal in Ukraine but which Russia and Uzbekistan have declared ‘terrorist’ without providing any reason. The ‘court’ on Wednesday also saw no need for the defence to be shown any proof. …read more...
Crimean Tatars Ignore Ban on Remembrance under Russian FSB Surveillance
How is it possible to prohibit a people from honouring the victims of an act of genocide? With threats, detentions and even warnings to schools that the number of children absent will be noted, and their parents asked for explanations. The ban did not stop hundreds of Crimean Tatars gathering in Bakhchysarai, with the FSB out in full force and...
Drop unfounded charges against Russian rights activist Valentina Cherevatenko
Representatives of Russian and international NGOs are appalled by a new and alarming development in the campaign of pressure against Russian civil society, namely the possible first criminal proceedings linked with the law on NGOs as so-called ‘foreign agents’ …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Facts & alibis pitched against torture as Russia’s trial of Karpyuk & Klykh ends
The verdict is imminent in the trial of two Ukrainians whom Russia has accused of killing Russian soldiers in Chechnya 20 years ago. If ‘confessions’ extracted through torture, evidence of alibis and of glaring historical inaccuracies have become standard in Russia’s trials of imprisoned Ukrainians, on this occasion there is one...
Russia Bans Remembrance Events on Anniversary of Crimean Tatar Deportation
Crimean Tatar self-governing bodies are being prevented from holding any remembrance gatherings to mark the 72nd anniversary of the 1944 Deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar people from their homeland. The escalation in repression over the last week or so has also raised fears that Russia may try to provoke trouble in order to orchestrate a...
