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Odesa activist and target of three savage attacks charged with murdering his armed assailant
12.06.2020
Ukraine’s Security Service has charged Serhiy Sternenko, with murder and illegal possession of a weapon two years after a third murderous attack on the Odesa activist resulted in the death of one of the two commissioned assailants
Russia protects and gives lucrative employment to torturer and killer of Ukrainian schoolboy
28.05.2020
Vadim Pogodin, the former Donbas fighter who ordered and took part in the torture and killing of 16-year-old Stepan Chubenko in July 2014, is once again working for Moscow, although this time it’s in occupied Crimea, and without killings
Ervin Ibragimov and the abductions Russia brought to occupied Crimea
24.05.2020
It is four years since Ervin Ibragimov, a member of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars was abducted from near his home in Bakhchysarai by men in road patrol uniforms
The protection of civilians in the conflict zone should be parties’ absolute priority
08.05.2020
Matilda Bogner, Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has appealed to all parties to make the protection of civilians a priority following a sharp increase in the number of civilian casualties
Another savage journalist murder in Ukraine unsolved
05.05.2020
A year has passed since the fatal attack on Vadim Komarov, with no progress made in finding the killer of a Cherkasy journalist known for hard-hitting investigative reports about local corruption, embezzlement of public funding, organized crime, etc
Russia’s most toxic ‘Odesa Massacre’ lie and the help Ukraine is giving it
01.05.2020
Six years have passed since the tragic disturbances and fire in Odesa on 2 May 2014 that Russia immediately tried to turn into an ‘Odesa Massacre’
Handziuk murder: Ukraine’s Prosecutor General sabotages case against high-ranking suspect
28.04.2020
Fears that the new Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova was jeopardizing the investigation into the savage killing of Kherson activist Kateryna Handziuk appear to have been justified
Odesa activist who survived three murder attempts could face prosecution “for defending himself”
08.04.2020
One of several high-profile criminal investigations that could be in danger after the new Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova removed top prosecutor Viktor Trepak is that of three attacks on Odesa activist Serhiy Sternenko
Chief prosecutor in Handziuk murder investigation removed just as progress reached
30.03.2020
Ukraine’s new Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova has removed Viktor Trepak, the only head of the investigation into the savage killing of Kherson activist Kateryna Handziuk under whom real progress was made
An end to high-level protection for the killers of Ukrainian activist Katya Handziuk?
26.03.2020
Ukrainian prosecutors tried twice to capture Oleksiy Levin, a key suspect in the savage murder of Kherson activist Kateryna Handziuk, after the first attempt was thwarted by a mole within the enforcement agencies who tipped Levin off.
Key suspect in abduction and brutal killing of Maidan activist Yuri Verbytsky arrested
13.03.2020
Serhiy Myslyvy is believed to have been one of the government-paid thugs [‘titushki’] behind the abduction of Yuri Verbytsky and well-known journalist, Ihor Lutsenko from a Kyiv hospital on 21 January 2014
Interpol cancels search for key Odesa 2 May 2014 suspect who was helped to flee justice
12.03.2020
Volodymyr Bodelan remains on Ukraine’s wanted list, however the case against him appears to have been suspended, after being sabotaged from the outset
Reshat Ametov, tortured to death for wanting his children to grow up free in Ukraine
03.03.2020
Six years ago, Reshat Ametov, a 39-year-old Crimean Tatar father of three, was abducted from outside the Crimean parliament where he was standing in silent protest at Russia’s invasion. His savagely tortured body was found two weeks later
Russia protects officers who killed 83-year-old Crimean Tatar veteran activist Vedzhie Kashka
17.02.2020
A ‘court’ in Russian-occupied Crimea has refused to consider compelling evidence that enforcement officers caused the death of 83-year-old Vedzhie Kashka through the force they applied when arresting the world-renowned veteran Crimean Tatar activist.
Justice for slain Ukrainian lawyer Iryna Nozdrovska in doubt, her sister’s killer secretly freed
12.02.2020
Dmytro Rossoshansky has been freed early “on amnesty” despite being sentenced without the right of amnesty for killing the sister of savagely murdered lawyer and human rights activist, Iryna Nozdrovska
Russia lies to conceal critical condition of Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov
05.02.2020
58-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov suffers form several life-threatening medical conditions which should preclude his imprisonment, yet Russia is refusing to release him and simply lying about his condition
Sheremet Murder: Lack of sufficient evidence admitted after suspects all but declared guilty
03.02.2020
Less than two months after a high-profile press briefing at which it was claimed that the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet had been ‘solved’, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka has acknowledged that they do not have the evidence to send the case to court
Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s life on the line, with Russia denying medical care
28.01.2020
Server Zekiryaev has a tumour which may be malignant, yet his Russian captors are refusing to even get him a proper medical examination
Experts confirm Russian enforcement officers killed 83-year-old Crimean Tatar veteran Vedzhie Kashka
27.01.2020
Independent experts have concluded that 83-year-old Vedzhie Kashka, a world-renowned veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement, died as the result of excessive violence by Russian enforcement officers who arrested her
Key suspect in savage murder of Ukrainian activist Katya Handziuk detained in Bulgaria
27.01.2020
It seems likely that the arrest of Oleksiy Moskalenko (Levin) is linked with a mass operation in Kherson oblast on 20 January and the laying of new charges against another suspect, Ihor Pavlovsky.
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