In 2014, a Russian judge found Stanislav Klykh guilty of fighting against Russian forces in the 1990s Chechen War. Russian human rights defender Zoya Svetova described the case as “one of the most insane and monstrously falsified...
One of the Kremlin’s political prisoners, the Ukrainian Stanislav Klykh was allowed a visit by his mother. This was reported on Facebook by the first deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Herashchenko. Tamara Klykh reported that her...
The Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has been sentenced to 20 years in Russian jail for resisting the occupation of his native Crimea. He is one of the 44 Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin. The #LetMyPeopleGo campaign advocates for the...
The escalations in occupied Crimea on 7-8 August, in the course of which Russia has accused Ukraine of staging “terror attacks” and claims that it has foiled a “sabotage group,” have left many questions unanswered...
A Russian court in Chechnya is accusing two Ukrainians of killing Russian soldiers in the war in Chechnya in 1994-1995 and has denied to consider materials that prove they have an alibi. On May 11, the final stage of the court process...
On May 11, the final stage of the trial of two Ukrainians, Mykola Karpiuk and Stanislav Klykh, will take place in a Russian court in Chechnya. The two men are being accused of killing Russian soldiers in the war in Chechnya in 1994-1995....
Mykola Karpiuk and Stanislav Klykh, two Ukrainians who are being accused of crimes committed in Chechnya 20 years ago (the “Chechen case”) in another of Russia’s show “trials” against Ukrainians, have had...
Stanislav Klykh is going to meet his 42nd birthday in a Russian pretrial detention center. He has been under custody for almost one and a half years, having been arrested on 11 August 2014 during a visit to his girlfriend in the city of...
Stanislav Klykh and Mykola Karpiuk, two Ukrainians illegally imprisoned in Russia, have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights on being tortured. After one and a half years of being held in custody, the two men are...
Mykola Karpiuk and Stanislav Klykhh joined the long list of Kremlin’s Ukrainian political prisoners in March and August 2014, respectively. Unlike Nadiya Savchenko or Oleh Sentsov, the newer prisoners are being accused of events that...
The fight for its creation was not easy. President Petro Poroshenko, the author of Ukraine’s judicial reform, resisted the idea till the very last moment. The pressure of society and Ukraine’s western partners made him change his mind....
