human rights activist
Human rights defender, journalist Maksym Butkevych gets captured, parents have no contact with him
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
Poroshenko is urged not to sign a draft bill with a falsified rule on the election of the Ombudsman
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
Prisoners from Crimea are taken to 49 penitentiary institutions throughout Russia
Currently it is problematic to establish the whereabouts of many convicts
Human rights defenders and social activists suffer from violence and impunity – research
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
FSB detained human rights defenders Skrypnyk and Chekrygin on the administrative border with Crimea
Human rights defenders were surrounded by people with weapons
Ukrainian lawyer Zakrevska banned from entering Crimea
Russian border guards did not allow Ukrainian lawyer and human rights activist Yevheniya Zakrevska to enter the territory of the annexed Crimea
Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court refuses to free 65-year-old prisoner of conscience
Instead, the Court cancelled Askarov’s sentence and referred the case to the regional court for further investigation
Military police may be established in Ukraine
The military law enforcement units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be reorganized to establish the military police on its basis
Azerbaijani human rights defender released
The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan decided to release imprisoned human rights activist Intiqam Aliyev
Witnesses in Karpyuk, Klykh case nearly detained in Chechnya
The witnesses for defense in the case of Ukrainian political prisoners Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh were nearly detained in Chechnya
Does government permit discrimination against IDPs?
Discrimination cannot be legal
Special task force officers search ward of Afanasyev
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
No expected surge of xenophobia amid two years of war – experts
Such conclusions were expressed by the human rights activists while presenting the report "Two Years of War: Xenophobia in Ukraine in 2015"
Activists create interactive map of human rights violations in Crimea
The map shows 179 violations of human rights in Crimea so far
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?
Famous human rights activist murdered in Turkey
Elçi was shot in the head with a single bullet on a street in the southeastern city of Diyarbakır, where he worked and lived.
‘LPR’ militants’ video shows tortured man confessing to sabotage
The video shows that the man had been beaten as his face and neck werecovered with bruises and blood.
Human rights activist Andrey Yurov gets international award in The Hague
The prize was awarded for the organization of human rights violations monitoring and training of activists and human rights defenders.
Columns
Ukrainian parliament appeals for NATO membership as foundation for lasting peace
Ukraine rejects “pacifying the aggressor” as a path to peace
“Appeasement never works”: Lessons from Bosnia’s post-war justice
Liberia demands Russia immediately halt aggression and restore Crimea to Ukraine
