ZMINA has compiled the most significant developments and events in the field of human rights that took place in 2023 in Ukraine
ZMINA talked to two Roma women – Zemfira Kondur and Viola Popenko, who work in an international organisation – the Council of Europe. There are currently only two such women in Ukraine, but every year there are more and more active Roma women.
The Ukrainian’s defense stated that the case against him was falsified and that the verdict will be appealed in higher instances
Amnesty International calls the case on charges of weapons possession fabricated and the proceedings as absurd
Police opened the case under Article 125 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Intended minor bodily injury) and not under the article on a hate crime
There is a lack of persistence in promoting the release of prisoners of war and civilian captives...
The number of complaints about procedural violations in the criminal proceedings has not changed even after the adoption of the new Code of Criminal Procedure
Council of Europe asks Ukrainian authorities to solve the problems of internally displaced persons in compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights
Brussels expects Ukraine to approve the constitutional amendments related to decentralisation and other important reforms
President drew attention to systematic violations of the rights of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Russian-occupied Crimea
“The alert level of threat” was declared because of harassment of freelance journalist Nikolai Semena
The Council of Europe states there is a need for constant monitoring of the human rights situation in the occupied Crimea
Judge of the Sviatoshynsky District Court of Kyiv Viktoria Zhmut could consider the case on Saturday but refused to do that.
United States: Human rights situation in Crimea is dreadful, says Robert Berschinski, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. Department of State
Russia's refusal to comply with all, without exception, rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will lead to the country's expulsion from the Council of Europe
The mission was invited to the court hearing by Nikolai Polozov
Meanwhile, Sweden restricts traffic through the Strait of Öresund connecting it with Denmark and introduces the border control regime
There are many more elements, including for the first time ever a call for the release of arbitrarily detained human rights defenders
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