"We are convinced that the moral principles which once compelled us to resist remain exceptionally important today also. This is first of all the intense love for Ukraine which guided our actions. We see the lack of this love today. It is secondly the love of truth which alone can set us free. This love of truth later brought us together on Maidan. And thirdly, it is the love of God who spoke to us in the prisons and labour camps in different ways – for some in religious language, for others secular – and people responded to that call.

An interview given to the newspaper "Without censorship" by Yevhen Zakharov in which he touches on human rights and political issues of the present day

Viktor Yushchenko, speaking on behalf of the Ukrainian people and state, expressed deepest honour and gratitude. “It was you who laid the first foundation stones in creating civic society in Ukraine.."

While more than two thirds of those recently surveyed considered Holodomor [The Famine of 1932-1933] to have been provoked by the actions of the regime, only 44% believed it to be an act of genocide.1

“As far as my perception of freedom is concerned, it has not changed. I paid too high a price for it to now doubt its value”. Myroslav Marynovych, one of the ten founding members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, thirty years on

To the founders and members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group who saw no choice

Belarus and Uzbekistan have called on the UN to stop passing resolutions which condemn human rights abuse in particular countries

The European Court of Human Rights has bound Ukraine to pay two residents of Poltava one thousand EURO each for violation of their right to privacy of correspondence.

The European Court of Human Rights has bound Ukraine to pay two residents of Poltava one thousand EURO each for violation of their right to privacy of correspondence.

Those attending included Levko Lukyanenko, Raisa Rudenko, Ludmila Alexeeva (Moscow Helsinki Group), Vasyl Ovsiyenko, Josef Zisels, Osyp Zinkevych and Volodymyr Yavorsky from the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union.

Lawyer from the Media Law Institute Tetyana Rodionova has lodged an administrative appeal against the Constitutional Court over the latter’s refusal to provide a response to a formal request for information.

On the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, the human rights movement and his experiences in the 1970s

The acting chief editor says they have been told they can write about what they like, just no criticism of the Mayor

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In an open letter, the journalists express concern about the screening of a Russian film "Brides of Allah" which they consider to give a subjective and inadequate assessment of the war in Chechnya, and believe its showing on Crimean television to give grounds for further political speculation on the topic of Islam and the Muslim community in the Crimea.

As was the case with the Uzbek refugees in February, human rights organizations were alerted when the deportation had already taken place. Strategies are clearly needed to ensure effective channels of communication so that such infringements are prevented.

A number of prominent Ukrainian writers, journalists, academics and public figures have expressed solidarity with the publishing company “Fact” in their stand against xenophobia, but have asked them not to boycott the coming book fair despite the planned participation of MAUP

Unfortunately none of the action for making the date have been agreed with the actual organizing committee, and no practical assistance has been offered

He joins the large number of opponents of the present dictatorship in Belarus who are serving penal sentences for their convictions

How a woman in her eighth month of pregnancy was placed in a remand prison cell and why the ambulance service saw no grounds for taking her to hospital are only two of the questions requiring answers