Today, on 6 December 2018, Crimean lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, who defends many of the Ukrainian prisoners held captive by the Kremlin, has been detained by officials of the Center for Combating Extremism in Crimea on…
Mr Aleksandr Kostenko’s arm, broken during the tortures, has not restored mobility yet. Despite the operation made after his releasing from the Russian penal establishment, the arm moves just partially. This has been told by…
On Sunday, November 25, 2018, a ship of the Border Guard Service of the Russian Federation’s Federal Security Service rammed through a Ukrainian tugboat “Yany Kapu”. Along with two small artillery boats “Berdyansk” and “Nikopol”,…
On November 15th the Crimean Human Rights Group (CHRG) was again notified by the Roskomnadzor that the organization website articles had been included into the register of information forbidden in the RF. The Roskomnadzor has…
The spouse of Mr Volodymyr Balukh, a Ukrainian political prisoner, visited him for the first time in the Simferopol Detention Center on October 17th, 2018, before his being convoyed to the penal colony. Mrs Natalia…
On August 29, at about 6.40 am, representatives of occupying authorities in Crimea conducted a search in the apartment (Simferopol) of Ukrainian Cultural Center activist Olga Pavlenko. According to available sources, the reason for the…
Mrs Vera Kotelianets, mother of Mr Yevgeniy Panov, a Ukrainian political prisoner, sentenced in Crimea ‘for preparing acts of sabotage’, managed to get a short-term meeting with the son in the Detention Center. The Ukrainian…
Governments of the European Union, Switzerland, Norway, Montenegro, Iceland, Albania, Liechtenstein, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan President and Government of Ukraine OPEN ADDRESS On July 5, 2018, in violation of fundamental human rights and international…
Volodymyr Balukh, a political prisoner, has been already in custody for 1 year and 7 months in Crimea. Protesting, he has been on hunger strike for 108 days. During the Maidan protest in Kyiv he…
On June 21, 2018, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine included draft law “On Introducing Changes to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning Counteraction to Threats to the National Security in Information Sector” No. 6688 in…
On June 18, 2018 the “Supreme Court” of Crimea has extended the preventive punishment in the form of detention for another two months – until August 14 – for Vladimir Dudka and Aleksei Bessarabov, who…
Such information is contained in the response to a request received by the defence of Balukh from the “Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Razdolnensky District.” Responding to a lawyer’s…
