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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.
• Topics / Freedom of expression
Russia launches attack on Crimean Solidarity journalist covering trials of Crimean Tatar political prisoners
29.12.2020
The ‘police’ in Russian-occupied Crimea effectively abducted Vilen Temeryanov on 28 December, holding the Crimean Solidarity civic journalist in custody on nonsensical charges of ‘organizing a mass event’
80-year-old Ukrainian charged with trying to overturn the government via a Facebook repost
22.12.2020
Ukraine’s Security Service [SBU] have initiated criminal charges against 80-year-old retired teacher, Volodymyr Tereshchenko over a picture and caption he merely reposted on Facebook over two years ago
Crimean Solidarity journalist on ‘trial’ for not denouncing a social media contact to Russia’s FSB
21.12.2020
The trial has begun in Russian-occupied Crimea of Aider Kadyrov, a civic journalist reporting on human rights violations for Crimean Solidarity and the Russian website Grani.ru
Criminal proceedings under Article 111 of CC of Ukraine against the journalists
15.12.2020
The question is – where in Ukraine ends the freedom of expression and starts the state treason? The boundary between them is not defined.
Post-Maidan Tale of Impunity
07.12.2020
The man accused of the savage killing in 2014 of Ukrainian journalist and Maidan activist Vasyl Serhiyenko was released from custody on 3 December despite protests from both the public prosecutor and civic activists
Crimean activist sentenced for “Down with the Putin police regime!” & social media posts
27.10.2020
Valery Bolshakov, a left-wing activist from Russian-occupied Sevastopol, has received a two and a half year suspended sentence, with a two-year trial period, for a picket and speech under the slogan ‘Down with the Putin police regime!’ in which he called for “the dictatorship of the proletariat”
Ukrainian court ban on book about Stus trial gave Medvedchuk more than he asked for
20.10.2020
Controversial Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk cannot erase his shameful role, as a Soviet state-appointed lawyer, in the political trial of the great Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus, but he is trying to silence those who write about the part he played
Serious threats to freedom of speech in revised version of Ukraine’s contentious media bill
28.09.2020
Ukraine’s parliamentarians are due to consider the revised version of a draft law on the media in the last week of September
Nariman Memedeminov freed after sentence for reporting on political trials in occupied Crimea
22.09.2020
Although no restrictions have been imposed on his public activities, any such journalist activities in occupied Crimea carry enormous risks
Kyiv court upholds ex-Yanukovych aide’s attack on anti-corruption investigative journalists
07.09.2020
Andriy Portnov was essentially found to have been entitled to divulge personal data, because the former top Yanukovych aide objected to the Skhemy anti-corruption journalists’ investigation into his activities
Russia uses multiple clone trials to hide mass operation against Crimean Tatar human rights movement
04.09.2020
The real aim of five clone trials is almost certainly to deflect attention from Russia’s most brazen attack to date on Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists informing the world about violations in occupied Crimea and helping the victims of persecution
Russian prosecutor demands 15-21-year sentences against 8 Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists
01.09.2020
A Russian prosecutor has demanded sentences of between 15 and 21 years against eight Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists, including Crimean Solidarity Coordinator and Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, Server Mustafayev
Police refuse to react to threats against journalist who exposed pro-Russian Telegram sway over Ukraine’s legislators
27.08.2020
Liubov Velychko has lodged a formal complaint over police failure to properly investigate the serious threats and harassment she has faced since her shocking investigation into the influence of certain Russian or pro-Russian Telegram channels on legislators from the ruling Servant of the People party.
20 years after Gongadze murder, the killers of another Ukrainian journalist are being protected
25.08.2020
The widow of murdered Ukrainian journalist and civic activist Vasyl Serhiyenko has addressed an impassioned appeal to President Volodymyr Zelensky, asking him to take the case under his personal control
Zelensky reacts after arson attack on anti-corruption journalist investigators who exposed his trip to Oman
17.08.2020
This attack comes just days after a Skhemy journalist discovered evidence of surveillance equipment in his home and several months after one rather notorious politician published personal date about Skhemy journalists and one of their drivers.
Russian court revokes detention of Crimean Tatar civic journalist, but refuses to release him
14.08.2020
It has become so standard that ‘courts’ automatically extend detention without trial of Ukrainian political prisoners, that the hearings are scarcely worth reporting. Except when something goes wrong, which is what happened in the case of Osman Arifmemetov
Judge faces criminal charges over obstruction of Ukrainian journalist’s murder trial
21.07.2020
The latest court hearing in the drawn-out trial of men suspected of killing Cherkasy Maidan activist and journalist Vasyl Serhiyenko took an unexpected turn on 16 July when the judge in the case was herself formally informed by prosecutors that she is facing criminal charges
Four years since Pavel Sheremet’s murder: From ‘a matter of honour’ for Ukraine to any arrests will do?
20.07.2020
Finding the world -renowned journalist’s killers was declared “a matter of honour” for Ukraine. It remains so, however, four years and three arrests later, there is mounting concern that the wish to report the crime ‘solved’ has resulted in a further terrible injustice
Threats against journalist probing impact of pro-Russian Telegram channels on Ukrainian MPs
20.07.2020
Lyubov Velychko has come under attack since she published a disturbing investigation into certain pro-Russian Telegram channels and the impact they have on MPs from the majority Servant of the People party
Russia blocks Ukrainian media in occupied Crimea while doctoring own Covid-19 statistics
16.07.2020
Russia is intensifying its measures to block access to Ukrainian media in occupied Crimea with the latest increase in restrictions likely linked with efforts to control information about the pandemic
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