KHPG in social networks
Donate
to the
KHPG
Human Rights in Ukraine
The Information Portal of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
УКР
ENG
РУС
A-z
Newsletter subscription
Homepage
About the KHPG
Who we are
Contacts
Annual reports
KHPG Policies
Voices of war
Topics
War crimes
Chronicle
Elections
Politics and human rights
Terrorism
Implementation of European Law
The right to life
Against torture and ill-treatment
The right to liberty and security
The right to a fair trial
Privacy
Freedom of conscience and religion
Freedom of expression
Access to information
Freedom of peaceful assembly
Freedom of movement
Prohibition of discrimination
Social and economic rights
Human trafficking
The right to health care
Environmental rights
Children’s rights
Women’s rights
On refugees
Interethnic relations
Court practices
Law enforcement agencies
Penal institutions
Army
Self-government
Civic society
Human rights protection
NGO activities
Point of view
Victims of political repression
Dissidents and their time
Deported peoples
News from the CIS countries
Miscellaneous
The troubled times
New publications
We remember
Announcements
Human Rights Violations associated with EuroMaidan
Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Research
The constitution and human rights
Against torture and ill-treatment
The right to liberty and security
The right to a fair trial
The right to privacy
Access to information
Freedom of expression
Freedom of peaceful assembly
Prevention of discrimination and inequality
Prisoners´ rights
The Security service in a constitutional democracy
Analysis of the human rights situation in Ukraine
Human rights in Ukraine – 2004. Human rights organizations’ report
Human rights in Ukraine – 2005. Human rights organizations’ report
Human rights in Ukraine – 2006. Human rights organizations’ report
Human rights in Ukraine – 2007. Human rights organizations’ report
Human rights in Ukraine – 2008. Human rights organizations’ report
Human rights in Ukraine 2009 – 2010. Human rights organizations’ report
Human rights in Ukraine 2011. Human rights organizations’ report
Human rights in Ukraine 2012. Human rights organizations’ report
Human rights in Ukraine 2013. Human rights organizations’ report
Human rights in Ukraine 2014. Human rights organizations’ report
Human rights and civil society
History of the dissident movement in Ukraine
Political persecution in modern Ukraine
Our reports to international bodies
Archive
“Prava Ludiny” (human rights) monthly bulletin
Some KHPG publications
Freedom of Expression in Ukraine
Аrticles en Français
Documenting
war crimes in Ukraine
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.
• Topics / Freedom of conscience and religion
Savage sentences against Crimean Tatar journalists for reporting on Russia’s ‘state terrorism’ in occupied Crimea
25.11.2022
A Russian court has handed down 13-14-year sentences against three civic journalists and two activists taken prisoner in Russia’s most ferocious and internationally condemned attack to date on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement.
Russian court willing to kill 60-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner, heart attack or not
09.11.2022
60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov suffered a heart attack on 27 October in the Russian SIZO [remand prison], where the recognized political prisoner is held despite his life-threatening medical condition
Crimean Tatar political prisoner sentenced to 11 years for 'kitchen conversation' about religion and politics
12.09.2022
A Russian court has sentenced 52-year-old has sentenced Yashar Shikhametov to eleven years’ imprisonment on the basis of flawed charges, planted religious literature and anonymous ‘witnesses’ who had quite likely never set eyes on him.
Russia wants 64-year-old Crimean Tatar to die in prison for refusing to collaborate in occupied Crimea
07.09.2022
Zekirya Muratov, a pensioner and former musician has Grade III disability status and numerous grave medical conditions which make the long sentence as formal as the cynical charges against him.
New armed searches and arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea for reading the Bible
29.08.2022
The Russian FSB carried out new armed searches of the homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses on 24 August, with two believers – 53-year-old Viktor Kudinov and Serhiy Zhygalov (51) taken into custody
Russia seeks 15-17 sentences against Crimean Tatar civic journalists who reported repression in occupied Crimea
23.08.2022
A Russian prosecutor has demanded 15-17-year sentences against three civic journalists and two civic activists, all of whom were involved in reporting and / or supporting the victims of Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea
Savage sentences in Russia’s religious persecution and plunder in occupied Crimea
15.08.2022
A Russian court of appeal has upheld sentences of up to 18 years against four Crimean Tatars, with the persecution of two of the men almost certainly connected with Russia’s attack on an independent religious community and plunder of their mosque
Russia 'takes revenge’ for humiliating attack on Crimea military base by new mass arrests of Crimean Tatars
12.08.2022
The head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis believes that Russia decided to avenge itself for the humiliation of the attack by staging mass arrests of Crimean Tatars on fabricated charges
Effective death sentence against veteran Crimean Tatar activist for opposing repression in Russian-occupied Crimea
20.07.2022
A court in Russia has sentenced Azamat Eyupov to 17 years in the harshest of Russian prisons, without any crime and in the full knowledge that this is an effective death sentence.
Crimean Tatar sentenced to 19 years on 'sheer fantasy' charges
13.07.2022
Three ‘judges’ from the notorious Southern District Military Court in Rostov (Russia) have sentenced 34-year-old Ismet Ibragimov to 19 years’ imprisonment without any crime and on charges that Ismet’s neighbours say “border on fantasy”.
Russia copy-pastes first attack on Crimean Tatar activists after 4 years for new 13-year sentences
11.07.2022
Neither man was accused of any recognizable crime and the prosecution’s case was essentially based on conversations about religion over four years ago, in which one of the defendants did not take part
After violently seizing Crimea, Russia accuses peaceful Crimean Tatars of ‘terrorism’ for defending political prisoners
08.07.2022
In a powerful address, Crimean Tatar political prisoner Oleh Fedorov has highlighted the grotesque absurdity of the country that invaded and annexed Crimea accusing peaceful Crimeans of seeking to ‘overthrow the Russian constitutional order’
Russia jeopardizes life of Crimean Tatar veteran activist imprisoned for defending political prisoners
24.06.2022
Over a month after 59-year-old Azamat Eyupov almost certainly suffered a stroke in Russian detention, agreement has finally been reached for him to receive an ultrasound scan of his heart and MRI scan of the brain
Russian medics acknowledge that 60-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s life is in danger
20.06.2022
Dzhemil Gafarov has been in a prison hospital in Russia for two weeks, with doctors finally acknowledging that the 60-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner is suffering from a condition that should preclude his detention
Crucial judgement for Jehovah’s Witnesses as Russia tries to deny ECHR jurisdiction for its war crimes in Ukraine
09.06.2022
The European Court of Human Rights has found Russia’s ban of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to be unlawful and has ordered, among other things, that Russia discontinue current proceedings and release those imprisoned for their faith
Russian prosecutor demands 20-year sentence on ‘fantasy charges’ against Crimean Tatar political prisoner
23.05.2022
Even if the indictment had been proven, and it has not, Russia would be seeking to imprison a Ukrainian citizen for two decades for so-called ‘propaganda’ of an organization which is perfectly legal in Ukraine
Russia re-arrests the only Crimean Tatar political prisoner it ever acquitted
17.05.2022
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov (Russia) has rearrested Ernes Ametov, almost two years after the Crimean Tatar civic journalist and Crimean Solidarity photographer was acquitted on identical charges by that same court
Monstrous sentences in Russia’s war against Crimean Tatar civic activists and their children
13.05.2022
Five Crimean Tatar civic activists have been sentenced to 12 and 14 years’ imprisonment without any crime and solely on the basis of ‘anonymous witnesses’ who had probably never set eyes on them
Seven Jehovah’s Witnesses put on trial in Russian-occupied Crimea for studying the Bible
26.04.2022
On 9 April 2022, a Russian court revoked the first and only acquittal of a Ukrainian believer since Russia’s ban of the Jehovah’s Witnesses five years ago and its illegal repression in occupied Crimea
Russia sentences Crimean Tatar to 17 years for solidarity with political prisoners
20.04.2022
A court in Russia has sentenced Emil Ziyadinov to 17 years after a farcical ‘trial’ that made no pretence of trying to prove that the 37-year-old Crimean Solidarity civic activist had committed anything but ‘thought crimes’
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
»
...
30
X