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“The Biggest Danger in Captivity is to Lose a Part of Yourself:” Human Rights Advocate Maksym Butkevych Speaks About Serving on the Front Line, Captivity, and the Rehabilitation Process
Articles - 20 November 2024

“The Biggest Danger in Captivity is to Lose a Part of Yourself:” Human Rights Advocate Maksym Butkevych Speaks About Serving on the Front Line, Captivity, and the Rehabilitation Process

Liudmyla Tiahnyriadno, a ZMINA representative, met with Maksym in between the stages of his rehabilitation. They spoke about his experiences on the frontlines and during the years of captivity and imprisonment. Maksym described the process of rehabilitation of the recently freed Ukrainian POWs and the challenges that they face while preparing for civilian life.

Revealing identity of Russian POWs: violation of their right to protection against ‘public curiosity’ or existence of ‘compelling public interest’?
Articles - 07 April 2022

Revealing identity of Russian POWs: violation of their right to protection against ‘public curiosity’ or existence of ‘compelling public interest’?

In order to analyze the validity of a possible violation of the relevant provision of GC III, it is necessary to carry out a detailed analysis of the mentioned term "public curiosity", as well as its forms.

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24 February

“No other country in the world has had reporters working under such conditions for years”: Russia’s war crimes against media, illustrated by the regional branches of Suspilne

20 February

“Mum, I don’t want to go back there…”: blind political prisoner Sizikov was released from a penal colony on health grounds, but then the decision was overturned

16 February

ZMINA reader survey: Share your feedback

16 January

Prison guards at “Izolyatsia” replicated torture methods shown in the American film The Mauritanian: Daniil Bulhakov says after three years in “DPR” prisons

27 December

Government agencies have appointed officials responsible for the temporarily occupied territories: human rights advocate explains what this will change

Instructions

19 February

Kremlin Prisoners: How to Write a Letter to a Political Prisoner

Columns

The lesson of Crimea: Rewarding aggression only invites more war

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

26 February

The lesson of Crimea: Rewarding aggression only invites more war

Not just Ukraine — Russia is preparing Ukrainian children for future wars elsewhere

Mariia Sulialina

24 February

Not just Ukraine — Russia is preparing Ukrainian children for future wars elsewhere

Why “good Russians” in exile repeat Russian and Soviet colonial narratives

Leila Seiitbek

11 February

Why “good Russians” in exile repeat Russian and Soviet colonial narratives

Reconciliation never ends: on the challenges of decolonization in South Africa

Hlonipha Mokoena

31 January

Reconciliation never ends: on the challenges of decolonization in South Africa

Russia needs soldiers. The Global South has desperate people. The rest is exploitation.

Munira Mustaffa

27 January

Russia needs soldiers. The Global South has desperate people. The rest is exploitation.

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