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• Civic society

What did the media team of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group deal with in 2022?

A text about the biggest media projects we launched in 2022 and the people who bring them to life.

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Court sentences conscientious objector to a year in jail

Court in Ivano-Frankivsk rejected the appeal of 46 yo. Christian Vitalii Alekseienko, who appealed the sentence. “I told the court I agree that I have broken the law of Ukraine, but I am not guilty under the law of God,” commented Alekseienko.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Grads maneuvered between our houses and shelled Mariupol’. The story of Roman

The Russian military stole Roman’s car and later returned it without registration plates. The street near his dacha (summer cottage) was “crammed with Kamaz trucks” carrying Russian military men who admitted they had come to earn extra money for a car.

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Death sentence for reporting on Russian repression in occupied Crimea and chilling repeat of Stalin-era persecution

All four men, one of whom is dangerously ill, were charged with the current Russian regime’s remake of the ‘counter-revolutionary terrorist propaganda’ charges used under Stalin to kill two of the men’s great-grandfather

• Events

Abducted and tortured Ukrainian political prisoner faces additional prosecution for calling Russia's invasion of Ukraine a war

Oleksandr Marchenko has been fined 30 thousand roubles in a Russian harsh-regime prison colony for supposedly ‘discrediting the Russian army’ by calling Russia’s war against Ukraine a war

• War crimes

Investigators say Putin probably authorized the use of the Russian Buk missile that downed MH17, killing 298 civilians

International investigators have said there are “strong indications” that Russian leader Vladimir Putin authorized the supply of the Buk missile launcher that on 17 July 2014 downed Malaysian airliner MH17

• War crimes

Ukraine to leave European Ombudsman in protest over Ukrainian children being sent from Austria to Russia

Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsman, has warned the Office of the European Ombudsman that Ukraine will be withdrawing from this organization

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian political prisoner dies in Russian captivity

Kostiantyn Shyrinh has died in a Russian prison colony, three years after the then 60-year-old Ukrainian was first seized in occupied Crimea and then sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment on mystery ‘spying’ charges

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Why fire eight rockets at a kindergarten?’

Okhtyrka resident lost her son on the second day of Russia’s invasion, he died while helping to equip a bomb shelter in a kindergarten. Due to constant shelling, they were able to bury him only three days later.

• War crimes

Long sentences passed on ‘Redut’ mercenaries fighting Russia’s war against Ukraine with Finnish citizen’s funding

Three mercenaries have received long sentences in Ukraine in trials that Finland should be following as their citizen, Gennady Timchenko, is believed to be financing the Redut mercenary unit, linked closely with Russia’s defence ministry

• War crimes

Disabled Kherson volunteer tortured by Russian invaders for insane propaganda confession to ‘spying for Ukraine’

The Russians who invaded and occupied Mykola Petrovsky's home are in all seriousness charging the 28-year-old Ukrainian volunteer with ‘spying for Ukraine’ and threatening a sentence of up to 20 years’ imprisonment

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean journalist prosecuted and declared a ‘foreign agent’ for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

While planning to legislate 'impunity' for war crimes committed ‘in Russia’s interests’, Russia and its puppets in occupied Crimea are aggressively fining or imprisoning those who write of the war crimes, or simply say ‘no to war’.

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