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Putin will continue attacking until Russia is stopped. Help Ukraine defend its freedom today!
25.02.2022
Vladimir Putin has initiated an invasion of all of Ukraine and he will not stop there if allowed to succeed
Russia claims it prevented a ‘Ukrainian radical terrorist attack’ in occupied Crimea
24.02.2022
Amid all of the extraordinarily sloppy fakes with which Russia is fabricating a ‘casus belli’, this stands out as there very likely are six Ukrainians being tortured now
Russia kills Minsk Agreement, with lives of over 300 Ukrainian hostages and POWs in danger
23.02.2022
On just some of the victims of Russia’s recognition of its puppet Donbas ‘republics’ and its official invasion of Ukrainian territory
Ukraine moves to defend persecuted Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Russian-occupied Crimea
23.02.2022
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has taken an important step in protecting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea which has been under attack since Russia’s invasion and annexation of the peninsula
Staged Donbas ‘evacuation’ and fake sabotage in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Where are the sanctions?
21.02.2022
Russia is already attacking Ukraine. Where are the sanctions?
Imprisoned for seven years as Russia"s revenge for Ukraine’s Euromaidan
21.02.2022
For a Russian prison sentence, it was enough that Andriy Kolomiyets was Ukrainian and had been on Maidan. All else was just a question of technicalities, and of torture.
Renowned Crimean Tatar civic activist jailed after exposing Russia’s destruction of 16th century Khan’s Palace
18.02.2022
Update Edem Dudakov has been jailed by an occupation court ten days after he reported the latest irreparable damage which Russia has caused the Khan’s Palace, or Hansaray, in Bakhchysarai, an extremely important monument of Crimean Tatar heritage
Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witness sentenced for talking about the Bible in Russian-occupied Crimea
18.02.2022
A "court" in Russian-occupied Crimea has found 32-year-old Artem Shabliy guilty of so-called ‘participation in an extremist organization’ for practising his faith as a Jehovah’s Witness
Savagely tortured Ukrainian journalist sentenced to six years by Russian occupation court
16.02.2022
This is a chilling attack on independent journalists trying to report on the situation in Russian occupied Crimea
Surreal twist in Russia’s lawless ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev
15.02.2022
Russia’s ‘trial’ of veteran Crimean Tatar leader and Ukrainian MP Mustafa Dzhemilev for trying to enter his native Crimea was already a record-breaker in lawless cynicism, but last week it hit new depths
Analysis
A person unfolds a poster…
"Schools and hospitals instead of bombs and shells", "Russia, do not occupy Ukraine", "Freedom to Ukrainian political prisoners": Russians protest against the war with Ukraine. They"ve been detained by law enforcement officers for solitary pickets.
Joint statement by UHHRU and KHPG on consequences of “recognition” of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics by Russia
Russia has finished the era of the “hybrid” conflict, when Ukraine had to prove in international jurisdictions the existence of general and effective control of Russia over these territories through funding, military support and the establishment of Russian-controlled governance.
Mass beating in Colony No.25: buried investigation?
SBI quietly closed the investigation into the high-profile case back in October. As it turned out, on January 21, three months later, the prosecutor’s office quashed that decision. However, as the human rights activists believe, it is too early to celebrate: it seems that the case will still be closed, after all, the maximum period of investigation has expired, when no one has been notified of the suspicion.
Tartu City Council statement on the liquidation of Memorial
The decision to close Memorial, which was ordered by the Russian Supreme Court, marks a new and very dangerous era in the offensive on the foundations of civil society and the rule of law.
Guide on the investigation of tortures
The criteria for effective investigation are the following: competence, impartiality, independence, promptness and diligence. Because without following these principles and criteria, the investigation of torture will not have any results.
Report concerning the investigation of the mass unlawful use of force to the convicts of the Oleksiivska correctional colony (No.25) on January 8, 2020
It"s been two years since the events in the Oleksiivska correctional colony. There are a lot of questions that still need to be answered.
Reform strategy of medical care for prisoners (updated)
We have already published the views of human rights activists on the further development of penitentiary medicine in Ukraine. Today we bring to your attention an updated and supplemented vision of how this sector could be reformed.
Obstacles to Registration and Citizenship Confirmation Threaten to Create a New Wave of Statelessness in Ukraine: A Preliminary Legal Analysis
Evan Harary, Fulbright Scholar at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. His project concerns the implementation of passportization and statelessness recognition efforts among displaced people, with particular attention to displaced Roma. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Evan has experience in immigration and asylum law, administrative law, and international humanitarian law.
“Memorial” cannot be closed – it is the need to know the truth about the tragic past: statement of the Ukrainian human rights organizations
In this letter, we express our solidarity with our Russian friends, with whom we have spent more than 30 years helping former Gulag prisoners, defending human rights and in recent years opposing Russian aggression in Crimea and Donbas.
On the pettiness of suspicion of Petro Poroshenko
The investigation maintains that several high-ranking officials, Ukrainian citizens, have conspired to promote “terrorist organizations” in order to harm Ukraine’s territorial integrity, inviolability and defence capabilities. These high-ranking officials were Petro Poroshenko, Viktor Medvedchuk, former Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn, and Serhiy Kuzyara, allegedly responsible for communication with the “LPR/DPR”.