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New attempts to force Russian citizenship on Crimean political prisoner Oleksandr Kolchenko
27.06.2016
Oleksandr Kolchenko, the Ukrainian civic activist tried together with filmmaker Oleg Sentsov on involvement in a non-existent ‘terrorist plot’, has been refused a visit from the Ukrainian consul with the prison authorities claiming that Kolchenko is a Russian national. Most ominously, he is being put under pressure to sign a Russian passport they have already prepared.
New ’anti-terrorist’ law to unleash terror on Russia and Occupied Crimea
24.06.2016
Two and a half years after Ukraine’s Maidan forced the withdrawal of a law introducing sweeping dictatorial powers, Russia has passed a law which seems aimed at terrorizing and silencing civil society with direct impact for Ukrainians in Crimea under Russian occupation.
Beatings and Arson Attacks: Is Online Dissidence Becoming Dangerous in Russia?
23.06.2016
There have been a string of assaults and arson attacks targeting Russians who have openly criticized their government on social-networking sites.
Russia flouts its own Supreme Court to revenge Ukrainian Maidan activist
21.06.2016
A Kirov court on June 16 ignored not only the fact that Russia is illegally holding Oleksandr Kostenko in prison, but the Russian Supreme Court’s guidelines on parole. Nothing, it seems, matters if the order has come to convict a person and then make sure he serves the sentence to the end.
Grave concerns for tortured Ukrainian hostage as Russia concocts new charges
20.06.2016
The 10 months in which Ukrainian Stanislav Klykh was illegally held and tortured by Russian investigators, with no access to lawyers or to his family, have left deep psychological, as well as physical scars on the 42-year-old historian. It is his clearly disturbed state which makes the new ‘investigation’ against him particularly cynical.
Freed Ukrainian Political Prisoner: Sanctions Against Russia Must Continue to Free Others
15.06.2016
74-year-old Yury Soloshenko and Hennadiy Afanasiev (26) are finally home and enormously grateful for the support they received. They both spoke of the need to return all prisoners held by Russia, and the role in this that sanctions play
A ‘Crimean Four’ Political Prisoner Placed in Notorious Serbsky Institute
14.06.2016
Oleksiy Chyrniy, a Crimean tried illegally in the same case as Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko has been brought from a Russian prison in Magadan and placed in the Moscow Serbsky Institute. The move could possibly be a step towards his release. There is still no sign that the Kremlin plans to free Sentsov and Kolchenko
Russian lawyers face reprisals for defending tortured Ukrainian prisoners
09.06.2016
Russia’s contempt for the law demonstrated in the trial of Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh who were illegally imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to over 20 years on trumped-up charges has now extended to the lawyers defending them. .
Pavlensky says he will not pay fine after his unexpected release
09.06.2016
A Moscow court on June 8 rather unexpectedly released Pyotr Pavlensky from custody, after finding him guilty and fining him for damaging what was referred to as a ‘site of cultural heritage’, namely a door to the FSB building on Lubyanka Square
Tortured Ukrainian demands formal apology from Russia for insane prosecution
07.06.2016
Serhiy Lytvynov, the Luhansk oblast resident abducted in Russia and tortured into confessing to war crimes that never happened, is demanding a formal apology for his unlawful prosecution. This he has the right to by law, and his lawyer Viktor Parshutkin plans to take the matter to court if Russia’s Prosecutor General fails to react.
Repression in Belarus has increased since EU sanctions removed
06.06.2016
Human rights activists warn that the significantly increased use of fines against peaceful protesters and the increasing use of the death penalty shows that the EU’s softening attitude to Alexander Lukashenko’s regime is misguided.
Russian expert in Ukrainian Library Director case finds ’extremism’ in children’s magazine
02.06.2016
The Ukrainian Literature Library in Moscow was, it transpires, a hotbed of ‘extremism’. That’s according to Yevgeny Tarasov who was commissioned to carry out a ‘psycholinguistic’ assessment of books from the library as part of the criminal proceedings against Natalya Sharina, director of the library and recognized political prisoner
Russia rejects appeal against Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov’s 20-year sentence
02.06.2016
Russia’s Supreme Court has refused to even consider the cassation appeal lodged against the sentences passed on world-renowned filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko. The move was predictable, yet still profoundly disturbing given the lack of any grounds for the charges and “Stalinist” nature of the trial.
Forget Minsk: Ukrainians get 22 & 20 years for Invented Crimes in Chechnya
27.05.2016
One day after releasing Nadiya Savchenko, Russia has sentenced two other Ukrainians to virtually identical terms of imprisonment on even more insane charges. The indictment flew in the face of historical fact, and both Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh can prove that they were in Ukraine at the time of the alleged crimes in Chechnya
Russian Monument to Stalin’s Victims Highlights Fate Of Executioner
27.05.2016
One of the few monuments in Russia devoted to "the victims of political repressions during the 1930s." has a single line noting that fact, then dedicates 12 lines to honoring one particular victim of Stalin’s Terror: Valter Vand, the former head of the local branch of the NKVD
Russian poet detained for ripping down portrait of Stalin
25.05.2016
Sergei Gandlevsky was detained on May 23 by police officers at the Lubyanka Metro station in Moscow after he ripped down a portrait of the bloody dictator Joseph Stalin stuck on a wall
Not Forgotten! Solidarity Campaign for ‘Crimean Four’ imprisoned in Russia
24.05.2016
Russia has hidden Crimean political prisoners: renowned filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko; Gennady Afanasyev and Oleksiy Chirniy as far from their families, the media and western diplomats as could be achieved, which in Russia is far. Join Ukrainian civic organizations in proving that it’s not far enough!
Russia’s “most monstrously falsified trial” of Ukrainians ends as commissioned
20.05.2016
It is Mykola Karpyuk’s birthday on May 21. Please write to him and to Stanislav Klykh! The two recognized political prisoners have been, as expected, convicted of supposed crimes in Chechnya despite all historical evidence and alibis
Russian Protest Artist Pavlensky Alleges Police Brutality
19.05.2016
Best known for such protest actions as nailing his scrotum to Red Square or cutting off a piece of his ear, Russian political-protest artist Pyotr Pavlensky continues to put his body on the line
Facts & alibis pitched against torture as Russia’s trial of Karpyuk & Klykh ends
18.05.2016
The verdict is imminent in the trial of two Ukrainians whom Russia has accused of killing Russian soldiers in Chechnya 20 years ago. If ‘confessions’ extracted through torture, evidence of alibis and of glaring historical inaccuracies have become standard in Russia’s trials of imprisoned Ukrainians, on this occasion there is one crucial difference.
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