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The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.

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Ukrainians treated as ‘foreigners’ and stripped of all rights in Russian-occupied Ukraine

03.01.2025
Had the invader's 'referendum' at gunpoint really produced overwhelming support for 'joining Russia', the latter would hardly need the aggressively coercive measures being taken to force Ukrainians to accept the occupiers' citizenhip

Ukrainian living in Russia sentenced to 13 years on ‘treason’ charge for sending money to family in Ukraine

03.01.2025
Ostap Demchuk, together with his 17-year-old daughter, had clearly been targeted because he was Ukrainian, even before the FSB came up with grotesque ‘treason’ charges

Ukraine names Russian commander suspected of issuing order to kill civilians in Bucha

31.12.2024
At least thirteen civilians were shot and killed in the three days after Artem Tireiev ordered his men to open fire at anybody passing by. The victims included Iryna Filkyna who was recognized because of her red fingernails

58-year-old Sevastopol activist sentenced to 15 years for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

30.12.2024
Russia has, as always, concealed virtually everything about its fast-track ‘treason trial’ against Oksana Senedzhuk, but there is every reason to believe that the charges and horrific sentence are politically motivated

Russia blocks YouTube and VPN in occupied Ukraine

30.12.2024
Together with aggressive indoctrination and propaganda, Russia is seeking to impose a full information blockade both at home and on all illegally occupied Ukrainian territory

Mustafa Dzhemilev: Russia’s occupation of Crimea spells the death of the Crimean Tatar people and forced exile

27.12.2024
Russia would almost certainly use any 'peace deal' as opportunity to prepare for further aggression, while Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians under Russian occupation would continue to endure mounting terror and repression

Russia stages fake ‘saboteur’ trial after abducting 56-year-old Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee

27.12.2024
While systematically bombing Ukrainian electrical infrastructure, Russia is claiming, almost certainly without evidence that 56-year-old Natalia Shulha was part of a ‘plot’ to damage an electricity pylon

Ukrainian sentenced to 22 years as ‘rail partisan’ in Russian-occupied Crimea

26.12.2024
As well as specific incriminating details about this ‘trial’, it is worth remembering Russia’s track record in abducting and torturing Crimeans, and threatening to kill them or hurt their families in order to extract ‘confessions’

Russian invaders abduct 53-year-old Ukrainian and sentence her to 9 years on insane ‘international terrorism’ charges

24.12.2024
The charges laid by the aggressor state against Iryna Kulish were very obviously fabricated, as well as extraordinarily cynical and lawless given that Russia is illegally occupying her Ukrainian home

Same fake ‘secret witness’ used in multiple Russian ‘trials’ of Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists

23.12.2024
Crimean Solidarity journalist Rustem Osmanov and three civic activists are facing huge sentences without any crime on the basis of a ‘secret witness’ already used by the FSB for huge sentences in over ten other cases

Publications

When a Scalpel Becomes a Kitchen Knife: How Ukrainian Courts Skillfully Distort ECtHR Practice

18.12.2024
The legal positions developed by the most prominent professionals in Europe are sometimes used inappropriately, sometimes out of place, and sometimes simply in a different context than intended.

Inadmissible evidence in examinations

18.12.2024
It is quite obvious that charges cannot be based on illegal evidence. The standards of proof in criminal proceedings should be clear and comply with the CPC. Is this really the case? Does the court exercise proper judicial control, does it evaluate evidence in accordance with the CPC?

Do today’s HACC decisions comply with European practice?

18.12.2024
In continuation of the discussion started by Tetyana Kozachenko in her article “Can a huge bail replace justice”.

Can a huge bail replace justice?

18.12.2024
The unrealized public demand for fighting corruption has led the law enforcement and judicial systems to imitate it. One of the methods of this imitation was the openly repressive nature of anti-corruption proceedings, especially at the pre-trial investigation stage.

Yevhen Zakharov: '...And that's when we created KHPG'

05.12.2024
Fighting against punitive psychiatry, helping distributors of the informal press, and... gardening. On the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group's birthday, its director, Yevhen Zakharov, tells us how it all began.

Open Letter on Improving the Anti-Corruption Infrastructure in Ukraine

03.12.2024
We strive to build a state governed by the rule of law, where corruption has no place. But we have to admit that anti-corruption agencies do not adhere to the rule of law, have inherited Soviet approaches, and imitate the fight against corruption.

Assistance to prisoners of war, civil prisoners and their families. Analytical report

06.11.2024
For several months, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group has been searching for prisoners of war and missing persons and providing assistance to their families. We publish the findings and results of this meticulous work.

How do you overcome the negative emotions that get to you every day?

28.10.2024
Optimism, altruism, and slight madness: the director of KHPG, Yevhen Zakharov, shares how to protect human rights during the war without burnout.

Voices of Mariupol — a film by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

22.10.2024
The heroes of our film lived an ordinary happy life. Carefree schoolgirl Mariia Vdovichenko dreamed of dancing at the graduation, doctor Hanna Shevchyk cherished newborns, Yevhen Sosnovsky realized himself as a talented photo artist. Instead, on February 24, 2022, the Russians turned their beloved city into hell.

Ukrainians in Russian captivity, ‘trials’ of ‘terrorists,’ and forcibly displaced children — what the report on human rights in Russia says

12.10.2024
Last week, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, released a new report. Here, we discuss the parts that are particularly important for Ukraine.

Dmytro Vovk: What awaits Ukraine after the law banning the Ukranian Orthodox Church?

02.10.2024
The law banning religious organizations that have the center of influence in the Russian Federation has already entered into force recently. What will be the consequences of increased state intervention in religious affairs? How will the European Court of Human Rights react to the ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church? We spoke to an expert.

Protecting the Rights of Prisoners Deported from the Occupied Territories of Ukraine: Challenges and Solutions

02.10.2024
The NGO Prisoners' Protection of Ukraine managed to return at least 260 prisoners who were victims of forced displacement.