HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Connection: close Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:18:09 GMT Pragma: no-cache Server: nginx Vary: Accept-Encoding Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Client-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:18:09 GMT Client-Peer: 77.87.195.9:80 Client-Response-Num: 1 Client-Transfer-Encoding: chunked Link: <>; rel="image_src" Link: ; rel="alternate"; type="application/rss+xml" Link: ; rel="stylesheet"; type="text/css" Link: ; rel="stylesheet"; type="text/css" Link: ; rel="stylesheet"; type="text/css" Link: ; rel="stylesheet"; type="text/css" Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=56406985a19789485c81922cf86ddeb5; path=/ Set-Cookie: usernumber=1490660290; expires=Wed, 28-Mar-2018 00:18:09 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: blocknum=0; expires=Wed, 28-Mar-2018 00:18:09 GMT; path=/ Title: EN - Human Rights in Ukraine X-Meta-Description: X-Meta-Document-State: Dynamic X-Meta-Keywords: X-Meta-Revisit-After: 7 days X-Meta-Robots: follow X-Meta-Viewport: width=device-width,initial-scale=1 Укр [http://khpg.org] | Eng login search search MENU The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group works to help people whose rights have been violated and investigates cases involving such abuse, as well as assessing the overall human rights situation in Ukraine. The Group also seeks to develop awareness of human rights issues through public events and its various publications About KhPG Brief introduction Board and staff Projects Annual reports Strategic plan Contacts Activity Investigative Journalism Political persecution in modern Ukraine Сampaigns Publications Monthly bulletin Prava Ludyny (Human rights) Some publications KhPG Archives Progress Hide menu X 27.03.17 | News from the CIS countries Russian state TV in absurd denial over thousand-strong protests, mass arrests State-controlled media in Russia proved considerably easier to control than the tens of thousands of citizens on March 26 who joined anti-corruption protests called by Alexei Navalny, despite the likelihood o... | detail 26.03.17 | News from the CIS countries EU must reinstate sanctions after Belarusian dictator’s violent crushing of Freedom Day protests If the Belarusian authorities hoped to prevent their crushing of Freedom Day protests being monitored by detaining 57 international observers, they should hav... | detail 24.03.17 | Terrorism Russia’s weapons of Ukraine’s destruction were not "found in Donbas mines" Russia’s claim at the Hague that the Donbas militants were using Soviet weapons found hidden (together with 700 tanks?) in mines did not get the attention it warranted. The Western media have largely op... | detail 24.03.17 | Politics and human rights Killing of Kremlin whistle-blower Voronenkov removes vital witness for Ukraine While it remains unproven who carried out the brazen killing of ex-Russian MP Denis Voronenkov in Kyiv on March 23 or why, it is certainly true that Ukraine has lost a valuable witness willing to give damagin... | detail 23.03.17 | Freedom of expression Menacing FSB interrogations of Ukrainian Cultural Centre activists in Russian-occupied Crimea Four members of the Ukrainian Cultural Centre have faced FSB interrogation in a move that seems clearly aimed at intimidation and at labelling any pro-Ukrainian activities, however u... | detail 23.03.17 | Human Rights Violations associated with EuroMaidan Parliament pass law that could help Yanukovych avoid justice while hurting Ukrainians It is unlikely that President Petro Poroshenko will veto a law that he has himself lobbied for, but that is precisely what civic activists are demanding. Draft law No. 5... | detail 23.03.17 | News from the CIS countries Open Letter to the President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenka We, 48 undersigned organizations from 24 countries, strongly condemn the continuing wave of detentions and harassment of peaceful protesters, journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists, anarchists and opposition party members in Belarus. | detail 22.03.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea Russia lies about its most openly anti-Crimean Tatar trial at the Hague Russia’s near total silence about its imprisonment and trial of Crimean Tatar leader Akhtem Chiygoz and others at the International Court of Justice in the Hague is hardly surprising, when Ukrain... | detail 22.03.17 | News from the CIS countries Ukrainian journalists detained in Moscow with student beaten for Ukrainian flag Two Ukrainian journalists were held in a Moscow police station for around 3 hours on Tuesday evening, together with the Russian postgraduate student beaten by the FSB for waving a Ukrainian flag during st... | detail 22.03.17 | Politics and human rights Ukraine lawmaker calls on USA to investigate new ‘evidence’ of secret payments to Manafort Paul Manafort is under scrutiny again after a Ukrainian lawmaker released documents he says show that U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairm... | detail 21.03.17 | Freedom of expression Crimean journalist accused of contempt of court for demanding open trial The first hearing into Russia’s trial in occupied Crimea of journalist Mykola Semena ended shortly after beginning on Monday, March 20, with the prosecution calling the defence ‘capricious’ and their demand... | detail 21.03.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea Chechnya style lawlessness will not work in occupied Crimea, however much Russia tries Russia has concentrated negative and repressive features from all over the Russian Federation in occupied Crimea, a Russian human rights activist has said. However, neithe... | detail 21.03.17 | Politics and human rights Please start taking the Russian disinformation threat seriously! Open Letter of European security experts to Federica Mogherini | detail 20.03.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea Russia orchestrates fast-track trial to imprison pro-Ukrainian activist in Crimea The trial in Russian-occupied Crimea has begun of Volodymyr Balukh, a Ukrainian from North Crimea whose latest arrest came just a week after he nailed a plaque to his home in honour... | detail 20.03.17 | Politics and human rights Ukrainians say Putin must go & Donbas be freed for normalized relations with Russia Russia’s annexation of Crimea and military engagement in eastern Ukraine have taken their toll on Ukrainians’ attitude to relations between the two countries. According to a recent study... | detail 20.03.17 | News from the CIS countries Belarus crackdown: more than 200 arrested or detained in two weeks One year after the EU lifted sanctions against Belarus, the government is resorting to harsh and violent repression to break the most massive protests seen since December 2010 | detail 19.03.17 | Politics and human rights Children with Machine Guns & Russian Flags vs Shame & Protest at Russia’s Crimea Landgrab A performance with children dancing about with machine guns was one of the most shocking parts of the state-organized festivities in Russian-occupied Crimea for the 3rd anniv... | detail 17.03.17 | Politics and human rights Russia now says it lied about Yanukovych letter used as pretext to send troops to Ukraine Three years after Russia’s UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin read out a letter purportedly from Viktor Yanukovych asking Russia to send in troops to Ukraine, and almost a month after Ch... | detail 17.03.17 | Politics and human rights European Parliament demands Russia release Ukrainian hostages, slams human rights abuse in occupied Crimea An overwhelming majority of European parliamentarians have endorsed a hard-hitting Resolution condemning Russia’s occupation and repressive measur... | detail 17.03.17 | Social and economic rights Three years after the Revolution of Dignity: Why reforms are slowing, and how to prevent backtracking On the reasons why reform is slowing down | detail 16.03.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea FSB abduct & threaten to bury Crimean Tatar alive to force false testimony A young Crimean Tatar was effectively abducted on Wednesday by Russian FSB officers who took him to a field and threatened to bury him if he refused to testify against 6 men, including a prominen... | detail 15.03.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea Human rights activists seized by FSB on Crimea border may have been led into a trap The Coordinator of the Crimean Human Rights Group and two other rights activists detained by armed FSB officers and illegally held for 7 hours near the Crimean border may have b... | detail 15.03.17 | News from the CIS countries Russian historian of the Terror jailed after Soviet-style denunciation faces new charges There is no real evidence to substantiate the dubious charges against Yury Dmitriev and a recent slanderous attack on state-controlled television has only compounded the suspicion that t... | detail 15.03.17 | Politics and human rights Six Immediate Steps to Stop Putin’s Aggression With a few exceptions in the Baltic and Scandinavian countries, and recently in the Czech Republic, very few real counter-measures have been put into practice. Despite almost every Western intelligence agency urgently warning about the Russian threat, only a f... | detail 14.03.17 | Terrorism Putin gives military award to Russian soldier for Donbas battle Further evidence has emerged of Russian military personnel directly involved in the battle for Debaltseve in February 2015 | detail 14.03.17 | Freedom of expression Russia uses denunciation as pretext for new repression against Crimean Tatar Mejlis Nariman Dzhelyal, First Deputy Head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, or representative assembly has faced interrogation in Russia’s so-called ‘Centre for Countering Extremism’, with the mo... | detail 13.03.17 | The right to liberty and security Captured Ukrainian soldiers ‘confess’ to militant killings & terrorism in Donbas & Russia The so-called Luhansk people’s republic has extracted, almost certainly through torture, ‘confessions’ from two Ukrainian soldiers to ki... | detail 13.03.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea Human Rights Court judgment confirms violation by Russia of Crimean political prisoners’ rights The European Court of Human Rights has issued an important judgment with direct relevance to Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, civic activist... | detail 13.03.17 | Politics and human rights E-Mail Hack Gives Glimpse Into Russia’s Influence Drive In Eastern Europe A recently hacked cache of documents indicates that Alyaksandr Usovsky’s activities include maintaining contact with Polish politician Mateusz Piskorski, a founder of a pro-Kremlin NGO that, among oth... | detail 10.03.17 | Terrorism Russia’s lawyer doesn’t deny Russian missile downed MH17, only that it’s terrorism If, as Russia claims, it is fully implementing its obligations under two international agreements – not financing terrorism and not discriminating against Crimean Tatars and ethnic... | detail 09.03.17 | Court practices Ukraine’s Got Less Than a Month to Clean Up Highest Court Maidan is continuing with efforts to prevent yet another rejuggling of a reform-resistant status quo through the appointment of seriously compromised judges to the Supreme Court | detail 09.03.17 | Social and economic rights Courthouse Drama: Jailing Of Ukraine Tax Chief Could Signal Watershed In Fight Against ’Corrupt Untouchables’ A ruling by a Kyiv district court to place Ukraine’s top tax official under arrest pending trial on embezzlement ch... | detail 08.03.17 | Terrorism Kremlin-backed militant leader claims ‘right’ to shell his own cities Alexander Zakharchenko, head of the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DNR], recently claimed during an OSCE press conference that he is fully entitled to shell Krasny Liman or Artemovsk, as these... | detail 08.03.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea Violations Of Human Rights On The Temporarily Occupied Territory Of The Autonomous Republic Of Crimea А deliberate policy of the total ban of freedom of thought, speech and expression is being conducted by the occupying power at the temporaril... | detail 07.03.17 | Terrorism Russia in the Hague accused of terror & discrimination in Crimea & funding terrorism in Donbas On the first day of hearings into its case against Russia at the International Court of Justice, Ukraine presented a weight of arguments and examples to back its accusations against Russia ove... | detail 07.03.17 | News from the CIS countries Russian teacher jailed for repost exposing child abuse freed, no let-up in persecution for Crimea protest Yevgenia Chudnovets was released from a Sverdlovsk region prison on March 6, shortly after her conviction for supposed ‘circulation of child porno... | detail 06.03.17 | Freedom of conscience and religion Crimean Tatar faces 15-year sentence because Russia’s FSB wants good paperwork The retrial is underway in Russia of a Crimean Tatar whose 7-year prison sentence for alleged involvement in a peaceful organization that is legal in Ukraine was challenged as too light. ... | detail 06.03.17 | News from the CIS countries Blogger fined for saying the USSR invaded Poland in 1939 takes Russia to Court in Strasbourg Russian blogger Vladimir Luzgin has asked the Court in Strasbourg to defend his right to state quite correctly that both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939.... | detail 06.03.17 | Social and economic rights Mystery Surrounds Blockade Forcing Kyiv’s Hand With only "a little more than 100 men" among the blockaders, according to Semen Semenchenko, a lawmaker and former volunteer-battalion commander who supports the blockade and is the voice behind the livestreamed video, many have questioned the initiative&rsqu... | detail 04.03.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea Last jailed Crimean Tatar activist freed, repression continues Jailed Crimean Tatar activist Marlen Mustafaev has finally been released, 6 days after the 10 friends and neighbours imprisoned for standing outside his home in solidarity with the detained activist and reporting on the... | detail 03.03.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea Slain Crimean Tatar Reshat Ametov “wanted his children to live in a free Crimea” “Russian friend, if they order you to, will you shoot at me?” This question was the last post 39-year-old Reshat Ametov made on Facebook, the day b... | detail 03.03.17 | The right to liberty and security Donbas militants seize Ukrainian woman & accuse her of bizarrely useless ‘spying’ 52-year-old Valentina Buchok has become the latest Ukrainian to be seized by Kremlin-backed militants and accused of ‘spying’ for Ukraine’s Security Ser... | detail 03.03.17 | Terrorism Russia & its separatist proxies must cease all hostile acts against the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Ongoing Violations of International Law and Defiance of OSCE Principles and Commitments by the Russian Federation in Ukraine | detail 02.03.17 | Human Rights Violations associated with EuroMaidan Not the Right Way to Bring Yanukovych to Trial The Kremlin is well known for pulling former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych out of hiding for its own purposes. Now Ukraine’s leaders have been accused of using Yanukovych as an excuse to push legislation that may have dangerous reper... | detail 02.03.17 | News from the CIS countries 43% of Russians feel proud of Russia’s annexation of Crimea Russians are united only in pride at the Soviet Union’s victory in the Second World War over 70 years ago, according to a survey by the renowned Levada Centre. The survey is, however, telling also in what it does not ask and i... | detail 02.03.17 | Politics and human rights Rights groups call for EU action in defence of democracy in Poland Polish and international human rights organizations have signed an open letter requesting the European Commission to launch the third stage of the rule of law procedure, which would mean the triggering of the measures under Article ... | detail 01.03.17 | News from the CIS countries A Loss for Ukraine and One Tortured Ukrainian Political Prisoner Viktor Parshutkin, a Russian lawyer who became well-known in Ukraine for forcing Russia to withdraw falsified charges against Ukrainian political prisoner Serhiy Lytvynov has died suddenly in Moscow at the age of 57. | detail 01.03.17 | News from the CIS countries Russia: Deeply alarming raid targets human rights activist and journalist Zoya Svetova Amnesty International believes the search to have been a blatant attempt by the authorities to interfere with her legitimate work as a journalist and perhaps a warning for her and others of ... | detail 28.02.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea The FSB has ways of making credibility irrelevant in Russian-occupied Crimea In addressing his “dear comrades” in Russia’s FSB, Vladimir Putin claimed that Ukraine was “openly speaking of organizing sabotage and terrorist activities, subversion... | detail 28.02.17 | News from the CIS countries Freed from prison, Russian activist says he was ’broken’ by abuse Hours after his release from prison, Russian political activist Ildar Dadin recounted how he was "broken" by physical abuse during his 15 months behind bars. | detail 27.02.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea 69 children and other compelling reasons for resisting any ’deal’ with Russia on Crimea On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Crimea, at least 30 Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians are imprisoned on politically moti... | detail 27.02.17 | Freedom of expression Donbas militant media – nothing bad about militants or Russia, nothing good about Ukraine The Internet media in the self-proclaimed ‘Donbas and Luhansk people’s republics’ [DNR, LNR] have virtually nothing but praise for Russia and, of course, themselves, while ... | detail 27.02.17 | News from the CIS countries Thousands March In Moscow To Commemorate Slain Kremlin Critic Boris Nemtsov Nemtsov, who had been a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead on a bridge overlooking the Kremlin on February 27, 2015. | detail 24.02.17 | Terrorism Donbas militant leader blocks hostage exchange in "we’re all Russians" interview on Russian TV Just days after the Kremlin-backed militants’ oldest hostage – Ihor Kozlovsky - spent his second – 63rd – birthday in captivity, militant leader Alexander Zakharchenko has put fo... | detail 24.02.17 | Victims of political repression You Should Know What Happened on February 23 February 23 marks the 73rd anniversary of the Deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples from their homeland | detail 23.02.17 | On refugees Court blasts Ukraine’s Migration Service, orders it to grant Russian Maidan activist asylum Sergei Anisiforov’s battle for asylum in Ukraine has ended in victory three years after he was injured on Maidan and even honoured for his part in Ukraine’s Revolution of D... | detail 23.02.17 | News from the CIS countries Quashing of Russian activist Ildar Dadin’s sentence welcome, but not enough This is an important move, but if Russia wants to demonstrate a shift away from repression, it should revoke other laws, like that used to imprison people for criticizing its invasion and annexation o... | detail 23.02.17 | News from the CIS countries Russia Launches New Project To Track ’Fake News’ Russia has embraced the buzzword "fake news" to dismiss coverage it considers unfair or flat-out wrong -- even as Western governments accuse Moscow of exploiting false and misleading news for political gain. | detail 22.02.17 | Terrorism Russian TV shows fake ’anti-terror operation’ to hide arrests of Crimean Tatar activists For the second time in a month, Russian media have produced fake news stories about ‘terrorists’ after a prominent lawyer the first time and civic activists on both occ... | detail 22.02.17 | Terrorism Ukrainian seized by Donbas militants for Twitter photos of Russian military equipment? Militants from the self-declared ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DNR] have taken another Ukrainian - Valery Nedosekin - prisoner, accusing him of ‘spying’ for the Ukrainian Security... | detail articles 16.03.17 | Freedom of movement Poroshenko law could strip huge numbers of Ukrainians of their citizenship Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has tabled as urgent a draft law which would automatically strip Ukrainians of their citizenship if they voluntarily took on citizenship of another country | detail 10.03.17 | Freedom of conscience and religion Ukrainian jailed as a ‘terrorist’ in Russian-occupied Crimea for converting to Islam If 2 men arrested on Feb 11, 2016 were probably targeted for their human rights or civic activism, it is likely that Vadim Siruk was arrested as an ethnic Ukrainia... | detail 08.03.17 | Terrorism Russia slanders Crimean Tatar Mejlis & openly lies about Odesa, MH17 at Hague Court Russia’s attempt in its opening address to deny that Ukraine’s suit falls within the International Court of Justice’s jurisdiction was anticipated. Slightly less predictable was the strange simila... | detail 01.03.17 | Freedom of expression Russia moves from armed invasion of Crimea to 5-year sentences for Ukrainians who object Exactly three years after Russian soldiers with machine guns, but no insignia seized control in Crimea, a Ukrainian journalist has gone on trial, accused of ‘public calls to violate Russ... | detail 28.02.17 | Against torture and ill-treatment Why do Ukrainian MPs want to prove that Ukraine is just like Russia? The same Ukrainian MPs who rightly call for sanctions against those police, prosecutors and judges in Russia implicated in the torture and fabricated prosecutions of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and many other Ukrain... | detail 24.02.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea Jailed for proving that Crimea did not ask for annexation A massive demonstration, organized by the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, outside Crimea’s parliament on February 26, 2014 prevented Russia from claiming Crimea had voluntarily chosen to be annexed. This is not just information for h... | detail 21.02.17 | Law enforcement agencies Ukraine’s Security Service and Human Rights At present the Security Service of Ukraine [SBU] is at the same time a security service and a law enforcement body. Nowhere in the civilized world do security services carry out law enforcement activities. Their purpose is to gather information within the framework ... | detail 17.02.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea Russia has more than torture to hide in FSB’s ‘Ukrainian Crimea Saboteur Plot’ It is increasingly evident that the FSB have a great deal to conceal, including indications that the victims of its ‘Crimean saboteur’ plot... | detail 16.02.17 | Against torture and ill-treatment A brief description of KHPG strategic litigations in 2016 30.01.17 | News from the CIS countries Donald Trump should ask Putin’s Ukrainian hostages how torture ‘works’ US President Donald Trump’s assertion in a recent interview that torture ‘works’ was shocking for several reasons, but it was also wrong. Most people, subjected to enou... | detail 27.01.17 | Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea Russia resorts to open terrorization of lawyers & their families in occupied Crimea Emil Kurbedinov, one of the lawyers representing many of Russia’s Crimean political prisoners, was detained on Thursday, Jan 26. He and his colleague Edem Semedlyaev were ... | detail 13.01.17 | News from the CIS countries Russia recognizes only punitive psychiatry while driving tortured Ukrainian political prisoner insane While increasingly using punitive psychiatry against Ukrainians in occupied Crimea for their views or faith, Russia is systematically destroying Stanislav Klykh... | detail 11.01.17 | Environmental rights Russia’s Crimea Bridge Could Collapse Anytime Russian President Vladimir Putin has called construction of a bridge between Russia and occupied Crimea a “historic mission”. 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