Mr Igor Movenko, a Ukrainian activist, has been persecuted in Crimea for political reasons for more than 2 years. After the Ukrainian together with the family had left the peninsula, he told the Crimean Human…
Mr Maksim Sokurenko, a Ukrainian national, was sentenced to 6 months in the penal settlement for splashing a monument to the Russian military who conquered Crimea in 2014, with paint.
He was informed that a case of administrative offence under RF CoAO Article 20.3 (propaganda of symbols and attributes of extremist organizations) was to be initiated. This was reported to the Crimean Human Rights Group…
On June 10th 2019, when the Ukrainian was meeting his lawyer, Mr Volodymyr Balukh informed that in the Torzhok penal colony he had been presented – just for a while – a document regarding his…
On May 19th representatives of the local authorities, the Russian military and Moscow Patriarchate priests were standing in lines on the steps in Sevastopol downtown. The occupying power representatives declared a ‘children parade’ dedicated to…
‘’The Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced Mr Konstantin Davydenko, accused by Russia for spying for Ukraine, to 10.5 years in the maximum security regime penal colony, on June 6th 2019.
We, the Ukrainian human rights and civil society organizations, have been protecting Ukrainian citizens illegally detained in Russia and the occupied Ukrainian territories of Crimea and Donbas for the past six years. Among them there…
Dear Volodymyr Oleksandrovych, We, the relatives of Kremlin’s hostages held in the Russian Federation, in the occupied Crimea and Donbas, as well as human rights defenders concerned about the fate of Kremlin-held Ukrainians, would like…
Ukrainian human rights experts have prepared the third edition of ‘Peninsula of Fear: Five Years of Non-Freedom in Crimea’. The book, based on consolidating a number of facts and recreating a chronology of occupying Crimea…
Mr Volodymyr Balukh has not been released from the punishment cell of the 4th Penal Colony in Torzhok Town, Tver Region, Russia, yet. This has become known after his sister – Nadezhda – contacted the…
Yesterday, on April 24th, presidium of the ‘Supreme Court of Crimea’ considered a cassational representation of the local ‘prosecutor’s office’. A deputy prosecutor asked for cancelling an appeal resolution of the ‘Supreme Court’ of Crimea…
The ‘Supreme Court’ of Crimea has started considering on the merits the case of Mr Konstantin Davydenko, charged by Russia with spying for Ukraine. The first court session was planned for April 22nd 2019, but…
