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Maidan Self-Defense activists prosecuted for catching a thief
13.02.2014
Four members of the Maidan Self-Defense force are facing criminal charges over an incident which appears to have been orchestrated with police connivance
Open threats and covert plans as ‘hostage law’ deadline nears
12.02.2014
Repressive measures and overt blackmail as the deadline for compliance with a so-called ‘amnesty law’ approaches have coincided with ominous reports of plans for extending police powers to curtail peaceful protest if the conditions are not met.
Hrushevsky Prisoners Poltavets and Tsilytsky to remain in custody
11.02.2014
Both men, like the Bankova Prisoners, were seriously beaten up and are now facing charges of organizing mass riots, with these based solely on the testimony of the police officers who detained them.
Kyiv judge who didn’t remand 4 student protesters loses her post
11.02.2014
Iryna Mamontova, head of the Obolon District Court in Kyiv imposed house arrest on four students of the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television who were charged without any evidence with involvement in the Jan 19 disturbances on Hrushevsky St
Ruling majority takes hostages through new “amnesty law”
30.01.2014
According to the version proposed by the president’s representative in parliament, EuroMaidan protesters must first vacate government buildings, roads etc, and only then will people in detention over the protests be released. If they don’t vacate them within 15 days, the deal is off.
AutoMaidan leader remanded in custody for 2 months
29.01.2014
Khadzhynov was detained on Jan 27 in Cherkasy. 7 AutoMaidan cars which came to Cherkasy from Kyiv were also set upon.
Road Control journalist Andriy Dzyndzya freed
28.01.2014
The preposterous charges linked to the Bankova St disturbances have been dropped in accordance with the controversially amended amnesty law, though he is now suspected of having “injured” a traffic police inspector by spitting on him…
Extremist! Jailed for transporting tyres
27.01.2014
Dmytro Yurchenko has just been remanded in custody for 30 days for alleged “extremist activities”, otherwise known as transporting tyres in his car. Volodymyr Karahyaur and two others have been jailed for 2 months for buying petrol
72-year-old detained for «attacking Berkut riot police”
26.01.2014
Mykola Pasichnyk, a 72-year-old pensioner has been remanded in custody for 2 months on suspicion of attacking Berkut officers. This is the most shocking but not the only indication that detention is part of an attempt to use hostages in negotiations with the EuroMaidan protesters
Two Bankova Prisoners released
24.01.2014
While excellent that Yaroslav Prytulenko and Volodymyr Kadura have been freed, Dzyndzya and Smaliy remain in custody, and the number of Hrushevsky St Prisoners is increasing. Those cases are no less dubious
First “Hrushevsky Prisoners”
22.01.2014
Three EuroMaidan activists – musician and film festival organizer Dmytro Moskalets, poet Yukhim Dyshkant and economic researcher Artur Kovalchuk have been remanded in custody for 2 months in court hearings bearing an ominous resemblance to those concerning the Bankova Prisoners
Courts strip AutoMaidan activists of their licences without any grounds
16.01.2014
AutoMaidan activists warn of their intention to apply to the European Court of Human Rights if courts continue to strip them of their driving licences for taking part in the car procession to the president’s residence at Mezhyhirya on Jan 29.
Donbas farmers complain of pressure over their support of EuroMaidan
13.01.2014
Farmers from Donetsk who have sent money and food for the Kyiv EuroMaidan have faced questioning from the tax police and accuse the authorities of pressure
6 year sentences in surreal Vasylkiv “terrorist trial”
10.01.2014
A Kyiv court has convicted three men of plotting to blow up a Lenin monument which had already been removed. Reports suggest that Berkut riot police have used a gratuitous level of force against all protesters and journalists outside the court, with many injured
Court refuses to release Bankova prisoner Volodymyr Kadura
10.01.2014
By leaving AutoMaidan activist Volodymyr Kadura in detention, another Kyiv court has refused to apply the amnesty law passed by a constitutional majority and in force since Dec 25.
Weird new charge against Road Control journalist Andriy Dzyndzya
10.01.2014
The new charge against the Road Control journalist who remains in detention despite the amnesty law being in force is comical and old, relating to an incident from January last year.
Police on the hunt for “losses” over EuroMaidan
10.01.2014
In moves like those used to bring prosecutions over the Tax Code Maidan in 2010, the police have approached at least one business asking it to assess its “losses” due to the EuroMaidan protests
The President’s Bankova Prisoners
09.01.2014
In a move which makes a farce of the recent amnesty law, a court in Kyiv has heeded objections from the prosecutor and refused to release Yaroslav Prytulenko, one of the 9 “Bankova Prisoners”, detained following the Dec 1 disturbances on Bankova St
Criminal charges for graffiti on Interior Minister’s fence
06.01.2014
Participants in a peaceful protest on Dec 26 outside the opulent residence of the Interior Minister, Vitaly Zakharchenko have been informed that criminal proceedings have been initiated over graffiti on the minister’s fence.
Traffic police detain AutoMaidan leader near Kyiv
06.01.2014
In the latest repressive measure against activists who took part in the EuroMaidan car rally to the president’s highly controversial residence at Mezhyhirya, traffic police officers have stopped the car of Serhiy Poyarkov, Kyiv artist and one of the leaders of AutoMaidan
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