People who committed crimes with their own hands should not hide behind the abstract Putin, says the head of the Center for Civil Liberties Oleksandra Matviychuk that received the Nobel Peace Prize. “I worked with torture cases....
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has reiterated its unprecedented interim measures on ‘Ukraine v. Russia’, which will enable faster processing of Ukraine’s complaints against Russia: it has ordered it to stop...
In the past week, Belarusian journalists and activists opposing regime have been living in a nightmare. The country saw an unprecedented crackdown on independent media, with top medias such as TUT.BY and Nasha Niva being shut down...
Despite this, as the authors of the report note, the movement of resistance to the occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation has been active since February 2014. It has many supporters among the Crimeans and is viewed by the occupying...
The full description as well as references and supporting facts were included in the description of the court decision regarding applications № 20958/14 and 38334/18. Who occupied Crimea? 1. The most active role in the blockade of...
The decision of the European Court of Human Rights from 14 January 2021 is still an intermediate decision. Formally it declares complaints brought by Ukraine against Russia concerning a pattern of human rights violations in Crimea...
The mission to Crimea met with more than 50 people, including victims of human rights violations and their relatives; mothers and wives of political prisoners; as well as journalists, lawyers, and civic activists. Many people spoke of...
At the 87th session of the Interpol General Assembly in Dubai, consultations are underway regarding the candidates for the presidential post of the agency following the arrest of its former leader, Meng Hongwei, on corruption charges in...
Abduction of Liudmyla Surzhenko On 16 July, Donbas activists shared urgent calls about the suspected abduction of Liudmyla Surzhenko, a 39-year-old woman who has had hearing disabilities since her childhood. According to the published...
The Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Giunduz Mamedov, whose office has been operating in mainland Ukraine since the annexation of the peninsula, has confirmed recently that a substantial part of violations...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...