Crimean Human Rights Group

Crimean Human Rights Group calls for new international laws against inciting genocide
News - 13 October 2024

Crimean Human Rights Group calls for new international laws against inciting genocide

Iryna Siedova, a researcher of the Crimean Human Rights Group stated that a present-day task for international community to actively start developing new advanced instruments for identifying calls for genocide and bringing the guilty to justice

Kremlin’s forgotten political prisoners in Crimea: Human rights advocates urge global focus on Ukrainian hostages at the Crimea Platform
Articles - 23 September 2024

Kremlin’s forgotten political prisoners in Crimea: Human rights advocates urge global focus on Ukrainian hostages at the Crimea Platform

In this article, ZMINA reveals what was debated on the sidelines of the summit, the potential prerequisites for peace, the scale of the crisis involving Crimeans persecuted by Russia, and why raising awareness is crucial to achieving justice

“Unpunished evil grows”: Human Rights Center ZMINA calls for new mechanism to free Crimean political prisoners
News - 24 July 2024

“Unpunished evil grows”: Human Rights Center ZMINA calls for new mechanism to free Crimean political prisoners

To advocate for personal sanctions, ZMINA is also gathering information about Russian officials involved in the illegal persecution of Crimean residents, including FSB officials and illegal 'judges' who have made unlawful decisions

Kidnapped Ukrainians are subjected to torture both by the Russian military and FSB – Crimean human rights defenders
News - 16 January 2023

Kidnapped Ukrainians are subjected to torture both by the Russian military and FSB – Crimean human rights defenders

When the full-scale invasion  started, monitors of the Crimean Human Rights Group (CHRG) have begun to get information from the occupied settlements of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that Ukrainian civilians abducted in these territories by the Russian military, the Rosguard, or the FSB are being transported to places of detention in Crimea

Dark-skinned students attacked in Lutsk
News - 07 August 2017

Dark-skinned students attacked in Lutsk

Students are afraid of new manifestations of aggression, since attackers have shouted: “Black men!”, which indicates the racist nature of the attack

Convicted citizen of Ukraine declared a dry hunger strike in the SIZO of Simferopol
News - 24 April 2017

Convicted citizen of Ukraine declared a dry hunger strike in the SIZO of Simferopol

The prisoner wrote an appeal to the Ukrainian authorities and international organizations

In Crimea children are taught to love war from toddlerhood – human rights defenders
News - 13 February 2017

In Crimea children are taught to love war from toddlerhood – human rights defenders

"There is a replacement of concepts in the Crimea, when war is presented as a celebration..."

Court of occupied Crimea extended arrest of Balukh until March 4
News - 03 February 2017

Court of occupied Crimea extended arrest of Balukh until March 4

Crimean Human Rights Group reminds that detention of Balukh threatens his health

The arrest of three detainees in the “case of saboteurs” extended until March in Crimea
News - 03 January 2017

The arrest of three detainees in the “case of saboteurs” extended until March in Crimea

As reported by the Crimean Human Rights Group

Svitlodarsk is left without electricity after militant shelling
News - 19 December 2016

Svitlodarsk is left without electricity after militant shelling

Artillery shells exploded near a school in Luhanske

Those arrested in Crimea on charges of sabotage are deprived of the right to defence
News - 14 November 2016

Those arrested in Crimea on charges of sabotage are deprived of the right to defence

Crimean Human Rights Group (CHRG) has documented violations of the right to protection in the case of the accused in sabotage Crimean Vladimir Dudka

Occupying power halves list of places for peaceful assemblies in Crimea
News - 25 July 2016

Occupying power halves list of places for peaceful assemblies in Crimea

Number of such places in Crimea reduced by five times

Seriously ill patients picketing Cabinet of Ministers to demand funding of medicines
News - 23 December 2015

Seriously ill patients picketing Cabinet of Ministers to demand funding of medicines

More than a hundred patients with bags over their heads and nooses around their necks lined up in front of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

It’s difficult to call an ambulance and no place to store insulin in Crimea
News - 23 December 2015

It’s difficult to call an ambulance and no place to store insulin in Crimea

The health care institutions faced difficulties in their work following the electricity cuts in Crimea.

Almost half of ATO area residents lack medicines – poll
News - 15 December 2015

Almost half of ATO area residents lack medicines – poll

53% of respondents indicate that their town or their families do not have enough food, medicine, and hygiene items.

Consultation “Addressing torture and violations of civil and political rights in Ukraine: How Ukraine implements the recommendations of the United Nations”
Announcements - 30 November 2015

Consultation “Addressing torture and violations of civil and political rights in Ukraine: How Ukraine implements the recommendations of the United Nations”

What are the key problems which tortures and civil and political rights’ violations in Ukraine? How the state responds to the UN recommendation?

Ukraine’s security officials submit 40 cases over crimes against Maidan to court – report
News - 17 November 2015

Ukraine’s security officials submit 40 cases over crimes against Maidan to court – report

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, the Interior Ministry of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine reported on the investigation into the crimes, committed during the Revolution of Dignity.

Visa-free regime makes MPs consider bill for IDPs
News - 03 November 2015

Visa-free regime makes MPs consider bill for IDPs

The civil society calls on the MPs to pass the bill on November 3