Maksym Butkevych devoted about 20 years of his life to human rights activities. In particular, he was a member of the board of the Ukrainian representative office of Amnesty International and the public council under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
The appeal to the president has already been signed by 9 public human rights organizations, in particular, Amnesty International, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Human Rights Information Centre, Center for Civil Liberties
Currently it is problematic to establish the whereabouts of many convicts
Human Rights Information Centre has recorded more than 50 cases of obstruction of the activities of human rights defenders that occurred within three years after Euromaidan
Human rights defenders were surrounded by people with weapons
Russian border guards did not allow Ukrainian lawyer and human rights activist Yevheniya Zakrevska to enter the territory of the annexed Crimea
Instead, the Court cancelled Askarov’s sentence and referred the case to the regional court for further investigation
The military law enforcement units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be reorganized to establish the military police on its basis
The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan decided to release imprisoned human rights activist Intiqam Aliyev
The witnesses for defense in the case of Ukrainian political prisoners Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh were nearly detained in Chechnya
Discrimination cannot be legal
The special task force officers of the Russian Federal Service for the Execution of Sentences have searched the ward of Ukrainian citizen Gennady Afanasyev and seized all the documents
Such conclusions were expressed by the human rights activists while presenting the report "Two Years of War: Xenophobia in Ukraine in 2015"
The map shows 179 violations of human rights in Crimea so far
What are the key problems which tortures and civil and political rights’ violations in Ukraine? How the state responds to the UN recommendation?
Elçi was shot in the head with a single bullet on a street in the southeastern city of Diyarbakır, where he worked and lived.
The video shows that the man had been beaten as his face and neck werecovered with bruises and blood.
The prize was awarded for the organization of human rights violations monitoring and training of activists and human rights defenders.
Щоп’ятниці отримуйте найцікавіші матеріали тижня: важливі новини та актуальні анонси, розлогі тексти й корисні інструкції.