Human rights Archives - Euromaidan Press

Protesters in Tbilisi hold Moldovan flag during the unrest in the result of the local elections

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Latest news Ukraine

Georgia criminalizes masked protests, repeat offenders face prison

Georgia's parliament locked in criminal penalties for protest participation on 31 October, with 80 MPs backing amendments that make a third violation punishable by up to two years in prison.

byMarianna Prysiazhniuk

Victoria Roshchyna among other 2025 IPI-IMS World Press Freedom Heroes honored by the International Press Institute and International Media Support

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Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna posthumously named World Press Freedom Hero

Award honors journalist killed in Russian captivity for her fearless reporting from occupied Ukraine

byMaxim Volovich

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Russia lobbies UN aviation agency to end air sanctions, claims violations of human rights

Russia is pressing the UN’s aviation body to lift sanctions on spare parts and overflights, claiming they violate “human rights,” even as its airlines scramble for Western components and its Belarusian ally faces fresh scrutiny over backdoor transfers.

byMarianna Prysiazhniuk

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Russian Aggression

BBC: Ukrainian civilian freed after years in Russian captivity — his story is one of beatings, starvation, and survival

Journalist Dmytro Khyliuk spent three and a half years in captivity without charges before finally returning home in a rare swap.

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Moscow cuts another lifeline to Europe’s human rights system as Putin moves to exit anti-torture convention

The step shields Russian prisons from international inspectors, raising fears for Ukrainian POWs and abducted civilians.

byMarianna Prysiazhniuk

Staff of penal colony IK-10 in Mordovia, where Ukrainian POWs have been tortured. Illustration: InformNapalm.

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Russian Aggression

33 Russian guards, medics, commanders: InformNapalm links POW abuse in Mordovia to named Russian staff

The OSINT publication exposes those allegedly complicit in systematic violence against Ukrainian captives at IK-10 colony.

byYuri Zoria

Maksym Butkevych at a meeting with human rights defenders on 25 November, 2024.

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian human rights defender Maksym Butkevych shortlisted for Václav Havel Prize

One of Ukraine’s leading voices on human rights spent 913 days in Russian prison.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia creates diplomatic crisis, stranding 96 Ukrainian prisoners from occupied territories at Georgian border

For weeks, Russia has been dropping Ukrainians at Georgia’s border, where they live in limbo under tin roofs and the threat of winter.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Latest news Ukraine

WP: Trump administration plans to soften criticism of Russia on human rights

Trump's human rights report on Russia omits the Supreme Court's LGBTQ+ organization ban and related arrests, which a former State Department official calls a "glaring omission."

byMaria Tril

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Opinion

OSCE at 50: Kick Russia out or shut it down

Fifty years on, the OSCE lets Russia bomb, kidnap, and veto. Time’s up—kick Moscow out or close the doors.

byTetiana Pechonchyk

A Russian serviceman wearing a gasmask, illustrative image. Photo via Wikimedia.

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Latest news Ukraine

Europe hits Kremlin’s labs over prohibited chemical attacks in Ukraine

Moscow’s forces accused of violating international law 6,900 times.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian hotels expose deliberate campaign on foreign reporters

Foreign editorials often do not get what is happening.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian soldiers who looted Nova Kakhovka residents vanish as pro-Ukrainian partisans strengthen their network in Kherson Oblast

Two Russian National Guard soldiers notorious for systematically robbing Nova Kakhovka civilians have mysteriously disappeared from occupation checkpoints, creating panic among Russian commanders.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Dozens of delegates leave UN hall during Russia’s speech

European diplomats demonstrated their continued support for Ukraine by exiting the UN Human Rights Council chamber during Russia's address on Wednesday.

byMaria Tril

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Latest news Ukraine

“I had no time to hide”: Russian small-range drones become deadliest weapon against Ukrainian civilians in January

Kherson Oblast bore the brunt of Russian drone strikes, accounting for 70% of casualties along the Dnipro River.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Kyiv university professor suspended after dozens of victims accussed him of sexual harassment

Accusations of sexual harassment against Andrii Bilous, a prominent Kyiv theatre professor, have sparked a police investigation and protests by his colleagues and students demanding accountability.

byOlena Mukhina

Kherson, illustrative image. Photo via Eastnews,ua.

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia seizes land from Ukrainians who refuse Russian passports in occupied Kherson Oblast

Russian occupation authorities implement systematic land confiscation from Ukrainians who resist acquiring Russian citizenship, while simultaneously settling Russian, Adyghe, and Ossetian civilians in seized properties.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

No power, no aid: Russians leave occupied Kherson Oblast without basic services

Residents in occupied Kherson face months without electricity, water, and emergency services while Russian authorities pressure locals to accept passports or lose access to essential services including medical care.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian occupation transforms Crimea’s demographics with 35% population replacement over ten years, says expert

Russian authorities have orchestrated a massive demographic shift in occupied Crimea, bringing in one million new residents while forcing out native populations through systematic repression. The peninsula has also seen 20,000 residents conscripted into Russian forces since 2022, with hundreds facing conviction for refusing service.

byOlena Mukhina

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He fought Putin’s prisons for 10 years – then spent 913 days in one

From defending rights to defending Ukraine, rights advocate Maksym Butkevych confronted his harshest test: surviving 913 days in Russian prisons he once fought from the outside.

byOrysia Hrudka