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Donbas militants ‘sentence’ journalist Stanislav Aseyev to 15 years for ‘spying’ & ‘extremism’
22.10.2019
The bizarre charges from a criminal code which is not recognized by any dem
Crimean Solidarity civic journalist gets prison sentence for reporting political trials in Russian-occupied Crimea
03.10.2019
A Russian court has sentenced Crimean Tatar civic journalist Nariman Memedeminov to two and a half years’ imprisonment, nominally for three innocuous YouTube videos, though in fact for reporting on political repression in occupied Crimea
Journalist Stanislav Aseyev held in Russian-controlled Donetsk ‘concentration camp’ for writing the truth
02.10.2019
Stanislav Aseyev is turning 30 on 1 October, his third birthday imprisoned for his writing in occupied Donetsk
Russia demands 6-year sentence for reporting persecution in occupied Crimea #FreeMemedeminov
30.09.2019
A Russian prosecutor has proposed imprisoning civic journalist Nariman Memedeminov for six years, with the formal charges against him pertaining to three totally harmless YouTube videos, two of which pre-dated Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea
Why does OSCE give Russia’s Crimean collaborators a platform for Kremlin propaganda?
18.09.2019
Ukrainian delegates to the OSCE’s annual Human Dimensions Implementation Meeting walked out of the session on 17 September in protest over Crimean collaborators using the occasion to push Russian propaganda about Crimea; Crimean Tatars and Ukraine, including the claim that Crimea ‘is Russian’.
Why is another killing of a journalist in Ukraine going unanswered?
16.09.2019
Over five years after the abduction and murder of Cherkasy journalist and Maidan activist Vasyl Serhiyenko, the suspected perpetrators are being released from detention one by one, and no charges have been brought over the commissioning of the killing
Russia brings tanks, weapons and its very own censorship to occupied Luhansk
04.09.2019
One of the first steps that the Russian and Russian armed militants took on seizing control of Donbas cities in 2014 was to remove all access to Ukrainian television. Over the following months and years, Internet websites were also blocked
Supporter of Yanukovych ‘dictatorship laws’ to head Ukraine Parliamentary Freedom of Speech Committee
28.08.2019
Nestor Shufrych, a former cabinet minister under President Viktor Yanukovych who voted for the notorious ‘dictatorship laws’ in January 2014, has been appointed chair of the parliamentary Freedom of Speech Committee.
‘Russian language moratorium’ headed for Strasbourg after Supreme Court reinstatement
20.08.2019
A highly questionable moratorium on something called ‘Russian language cultural product’ has been reinstated after the Supreme Court quashed the rulings which had found the moratorium unlawful.
Ukrainian far-right C14 win ‘defamation’ suit over rightly being called neo-Nazi
07.08.2019
‘C14’, a Ukrainian far-right group, considered by most experts to be neo-Nazi, has won a defamation suit against Hromadske TV over the latter’s description of it as neo-Nazi in a tweet
Poland’s Government uses ‘Public TV’ as a propaganda tool to win the elections. Will the EU react?
07.08.2019
Poland may be in the European Union, but its public television broadcaster, TVP, is using techniques we are more accustomed to seeing on Kremlin-funded Russian television
Russia issues ‘international’ arrest warrant against Crimean Tatar TV ATR journalist
06.08.2019
Two Russian-controlled courts in Crimea have ordered the arrest of Gulsum Khalilova, a young Ukrainian journalist working as a presenter for TV ATR
Ukrainian media accuse Zelensky & Co. of deliberate provocation after Bohdan resignation fake
06.08.2019
Prominent Ukrainian media have reacted sharply to the recent fake news issued to the media by members of the President’s Office and the subsequent comments from President Volodymyr Zelensky and his head of administration, Andriy Bohdan
FSB confirm that Crimean Tatar civic journalist was arrested for reporting on political trials in Russian-occupied Crimea
22.07.2019
Two FSB officers from Russian-occupied Crimea have given testimony in the trial of Nariman Memedeminov that makes it quite clear that the civic journalist and Crimean Solidarity activist was arrested because of his reports from court hearings in politically motivated cases.
Ukrainian sentenced for an ‘anti-Russian’ Facebook post describes atmosphere of fear in occupied Crimea
19.07.2019
Larisa Kitaiska is safely back in Kyiv, after a trip to her native Yalta in July 2016 resulted in her arrest by the Russian occupation authorities for supposedly ‘anti-Russian’ material on Facebook
Russia prosecutes for mentioning the Mejlis, but not for hate speech against Crimean Tatars
16.07.2019
Russian occupiers are happy for texts to incite hatred about the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people or the Jehovah’s Witnesses with prosecutions only where the authors don’t mention Russia’s extraordinary bans on them
Ukraine is about to release the only prisoner that Russia wants to exchange
15.07.2019
It is likely that a Ukrainian court will release Kirill Vyshynsky from custody on 15 July, despite strong concern that the journalist, probably with Russian help, will flee.
Russian state propaganda Rossiya 24 to hold joint TV show with Medvedchuk channel in Ukraine
08.07.2019
Updated! On the eve of Ukraine’s parliamentary elections, a joint TV show is to be held between the Russian state propaganda channel Rossiya 24 and one of the three Ukrainian channels linked with Ukrainian politician and close Putin ally, Viktor Medvedchuk
Whistle-blower who exposed judicial reform farce in Ukraine dismissed
05.07.2019
The news of Andriy Kozlov’s dismissal came soon after a widely-published post on Facebook in which Kozlov accused fellow members of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of shenanigans to protect morally compromised judges .
Crimean Tatar detained for innocuous social media post from before Russia annexed Crimea
03.07.2019
A week after the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe effectively removed sanctions against Russia, purportedly to enable ‘dialogue’, Russia is openly refusing to obey an order from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to release 24 imprisoned seamen and is continuing its terror tactics against Crimean Tatars, demonstrating its usual contempt for both ‘dialogue’ and fundamental principles of law.
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