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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.
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Ukraine axes English & Crimean Tatar TV to launch risky Russian channel for occupied Donbas and Crimea
20.01.2020
While few would dispute the need for Ukraine’s voice to counter the mass Russian and pro-Russian propaganda in occupied territory, there are doubts about how this is being done, and also whether it was really necessary to axe the valuable service provided by UATV
Ukrainian journalist banned from Russian-occupied Crimea for reporting on repression
20.01.2020
Taras Ibragimov has been prohibited from entering occupied Crimea and Russia for an incredible 34 years, which is how the Russian FSB treat Ukrainian journalists who write about Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian victims of persecution under Russian occupation
Crimean Solidarity activist detained twice and prevented from leaving occupied Crimea
14.01.2020
Crimean Solidarity activist Gulsum Alieva was detained twice on 13 January and held imprisoned for over 8 hours on a grotesque pretext, based on the political persecution she has herself faced
Suspected killer of Maidan activist and journalist released from custody
14.01.2020
Vadim Melnyk, who is accused of organizing the savage killing of Cherkasy journalist and Maidan activist Vasyl Serhiyenko has been released under house arrest, despite well-founded opposition from the prosecutor
Ukraine will be in direct violation of international law if it extradites Kazakh opposition journalist Zhanara Akhmet
13.01.2020
Almost three years after journalist and opposition activist Zhanara Akhmet (or Akhmetova) fled to Ukraine, with her small son, she is in danger of extradition, despite clear grounds for believing she will face political persecution if forcibly returned to Kazakhstan
Blogger spent 2 years in captivity for calling Russian-controlled Donbas occupied territory & writing the truth about MH17
13.01.2020
Oleh Halaziuk, one of the two Ukrainian bloggers released in the prisoner exchange on 29 December 2019, has given details of his imprisonment in the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’
ECHR accepts Lithuania’s right to expel Russian propagandists as threat to national security
03.01.2020
The decision, which is final, is of importance for Ukraine and all countries who have been accused of restricting freedom of expression by taking measures against aggressive Russian propagandists
Ukrainian blogger to be deported from occupied Crimea after criticizing Putin and Russian annexation
23.12.2019
A Russian-controlled court in Yalta has ordered the deportation of blogger Yevhen Haivoronsky from occupied Crimea. The move came just hours after police officers detained Haivoronsky and removed his Russian passport, and less than a month after the same ‘court’ fined him for a Facebook post critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin
Vital questions remain unanswered after Donbas volunteers arrested for murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet
13.12.2019
While the police assert that they have solved the murder of renowned journalist Pavel Sheremet, his colleagues from Ukrainska Pravda have set out fundamental questions that remain unanswered. Others have positively asserted that this is an attack on defenders of Ukraine
Foreign Agents as new ‘enemies of the people’ in Russia and occupied Crimea
05.12.2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill making it possible to brand virtually any journalist, blogger or civic activist a ‘foreign agent’, and MPs are pushing through a further law that will impose crippling fines or even imprisonment for failure to insert the label on any material they make public
Ukrainian journalist in Russian-occupied Crimea fined for negative Facebook post about Putin
26.11.2019
A Russian-controlled Crimean court has found Ukrainian blogger Yevhen Haivoronsky (Evgeny Gaivoronskyi) guilty of ‘petty hooliganism’ over a Facebook post on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s birthday (7 October).
Freed Ukrainian journalist: Criticize those in power in Crimea, and you’ll end up behind bars
14.11.2019
Crimean journalist Alexei Nazimov has been released after spending over three years in prison on fabricated charges
OSCE Media Rep collaborates with Russia on propaganda event in Moscow
08.11.2019
An OSCE conference has taken place in Moscow and been very widely covered by Russian state-controlled media. This is hardly surprising, given the clear propaganda benefit for Russia from the event on 6 November, initiated by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Ukrainian court orders TV Hromadske to retract correct description of C14 as ‘neo-Nazi’
08.11.2019
Unless overturned by the Supreme Court, this ruling could force journalists and civic activists to censor themselves or face similar defamation suits for stating what they have every reason to believe is the truth.
Solitary confinement in torture-like conditions for reporting on human rights abuse in occupied Crimea
06.11.2019
Server Mustafayev, human rights activist and one of the coordinators of the Crimean Solidarity initiative, has been imprisoned since May 2018, with the last month and a half or more in conditions that amount to torture
Ex-Yanukovych aide Portnov divulges personal data in aggressive attack against Skhemy investigative journalists
04.11.2019
Controversial politician Andriy Portnov has published personal data of journalists from the Skhemy: Corruption in Details program carrying out an investigation into his alleged links with people in government and is threatening more ‘disclosures
Ukrainian gets suspended sentence for T-shirt with Soviet symbol
28.10.2019
This is the second known criminal conviction made possible by a highly controversial law on decommunization which is likely to be slammed by the European Court of Human Rights
Russian FSB uses torture & threats for total Internet snooping in occupied Crimea
25.10.2019
The FSB have total and uncontrolled access to information about the sites that a person visits, as well as to his activities in Russian social media
Ukrainian journalist Haivoronsky jailed in occupied Crimea for failing to treat politically motivated ‘drug dependence’
24.10.2019
Yevhen Haivoronsky, a journalist and blogger from occupied Yatla, has been jailed for 15 days after allegedly having his head banged against a police car several times during his detention
Ukrainian Skhemy anti-corruption journalists face search after refusing to comply with sweeping divulgence demand
24.10.2019
A court in Kyiv has ordered that the Skhemy investigative journalist team give full access to the State Bureau of Investigations of a huge amount of information, on threat of the information being forcibly obtained if they do not comply
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