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Viktor Shvets died “protecting the young people”
24.02.2014
One of the victims of last week’s shooting, Viktor Mykhailovych Shvets was a retired police officer who went to Maidan on Feb 18, as he put it, “to protect the young people”.
Kharkiv Environmentalist Yevhen Kotlyar killed on Maidan
21.02.2014
33-year-old Yevhen Kotlyar was killed in gunfire on Thursday near the Khreshchatyk metro station. He had come to Kyiv to join the barricades on Feb 17
KHPG: On the events of Feb 20 in Kyiv
21.02.2014
Yesterday, on Feb 20, 2014, a terrorist operation was effectively carried out in the centre of Kyiv resulting in the deaths of up to a hundred peaceful citizens, with hundreds wounded
Ever more victims of sniper fire
20.02.2014
The photo here clearly shows that the authorities’ denials are false. Deomonstraters are being deliberately shot and killed by professional snipers who do not stop at aiming their fire at medical staff trying to help the injured
Vinnytsa artist killed on Maidan
19.02.2014
50-year-old Valery Brezdenyuk painted magical worlds on water. He died defending Maidan on Tuesday night, after being shot in the back
Yury Verbytsky sustained horrific injuries
11.02.2014
While the official cause of abducted EuroMaidan activist Yury Verbytsky’s death was hyperthermia, the list of his injuries makes it clear that those who left him in the Boryspil Forest outside Kyiv must have understood that they were leaving him to die.
Chornovol investigation descends into "road rage" farce
07.02.2014
Tetyana Chornovol’s response to claims that the attack on her was due to road rage because she cut in front of somebody’s car. “ I “cut in front” of Yanukovych and will continue to do so. That is really the only reason for the attack on me.”
AutoMaidan leader Dmytro Bulatov found, badly beaten, but alive
31.01.2014
The AutoMaidan leader was found alive, albeit in a shocking state, after widespread attention to his disappearance. Ths provides graphic illustration of the message being passed to the EU, Council of Europe and others regarding the importance of international attention, monitoring and immediate response to all disappearances and attacks on peaceful civic activists
Last Farewells for Slain EuroMaidan Activists
27.01.2014
The funerals took place on Sunday of 21-year-old Serhiy Nihoyan and 25-year-old Mikhail Zhyzneuski , both of whom were shot and killed on Hrushevsky St in Kyiv on January 22.
Another activist shot on Hrushevsky St dies
25.01.2014
45-year-old Roman Senyk died in hospital on Saturday of injuries received on Jan 22 on Hrushevsky St. His lung had been pierced by a sniper’s bullet
Thousands bid farewell to Yury Verbytsky, murdered EuroMaidan protester
25.01.2014
On Jan 24 thousands of people in Lviv attended the funeral of Yury Verbysky, a Lviv seismologist and EuroMaidan protester whose mutilated body was found in the Boryspil forest outside Kyiv on Wednesday
Maidan’s Defenders and First Victims
23.01.2014
The parents of Serhiy Nihoyan, who was killed by several bullet wounds to the head and face on Wednesday morning, had sought refuge in Ukraine because of the violence over Nagorno-Karabakh. Mikhail Zhyzneuski, a Belarusian national, had lived in Ukraine for about 10 years after fleeing persecution at home
Abducted activist Yury Verbytsky found dead
23.01.2014
The body of activist Yury Verbytsky, who was abducted from hospital together with journalist and activist Ihor Lutsenko, has been found in the Boryspil forest
Yevgeny Novitsky: I’m a foreign agent and I’m proud of it
19.01.2014
Better than any legal commentary about the Russian look-alike attempt to stigmatize NGOs as “foreign agents” is this account from a father whose son’s leukemia and that suffered by other children could be treated thanks to help from abroad
Tetyana Chornovol exposes her attackers
26.12.2013
Tetyana Chornovol has exposed many corrupt dealings and crimes by those holding high office in Ukraine. It is likely she has also helped to expose the men who savagely attacked her in the early hours of Dec 25 and left her for dead.
Kharkiv EuroMaidan organizer knifed (updated)
25.12.2013
Dmytro Pylypets, a civic activist and co-organizer of the EuroMaidan protest in Kharkiv was seriously attacked on Tuesday evening The assailants did not demand anything and silently sprayed a gas in his face, issued blows to the head and abdomen and stabbed him 12 times
EuroMaidan protester allegedly beaten by Berkut dies
24.12.2013
LIGABusinessInform has reported the death of 41-year-old Pavlo Mazurenko in a Kyiv hospital. He had apparently phoned friends and told them that he had been beaten up by law enforcement officers “for Maidan”
Full-Frontal Offensive against Road Control
22.12.2013
A Road Control activist has been shot and injured, and his car set alight in the latest attack on people from this civic watchdog which monitors the work of the traffic police.
Protester beaten on Nov 30 found alive
22.12.2013
Serhiy Radchenko, one of the peaceful protesters who disappeared after the brutal attack by Berkut riot police on Nov 30 has been found alive, though in a very bad state. Three people remain missing.
ECHR slams failure to properly investigate fatal road accident
29.10.2013
The case of Zubkova v. Ukraine is especially important given the large number of horrific accidents in Ukraine, of which many are caused by people whose contacts or financial resources enable them to avoid any punishment even where they were, for example, drunk and driving very fast.
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