As reported by activists from the human rights campaign #LetMyPeopleGo, a letter has been sent to Russian authorities by 23 members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The letter calls for the release...
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...
At least 21 Ukrainians are jailed in Russia and occupied Crimea on politically motivated grounds, according to the #LetMyPeopleGo campaign: 13 Ukrainians in Russia and 8 Ukrainians in occupied Crimea. People all over the world are...
After Russia illegally annexed the Crimean peninsula in a referendum condemned by a UN General Assembly resolution, it has silenced, attacked, and harassed its critics, turning the former Autonomous republic of Ukraine into a...
The famous Polish actor Daniel Olbrychski wrote an open letter to Russian film director Nikita Mikhakov with an entreaty to help Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who have been sentenced for 20 years of strict colony regime in...
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...
Euromaidan Press and Euromaidan SOS are pleased to announce that the winner of the #LetMyPeopleGo contest to remake the lyrics of the famous spiritual into a song of freedom for Ukrainian political prisoners jailed in Russia. There were...
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...
Like any invader Vladimir Putin is afraid of retaliation. He is afraid of the resistance of a population that sooner or later will begin to take revenge against the invaders. The story of the sentencing of Ukrainian film director Oleh...
On 25 August 2015, Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years of prison and anti-fascist activist Oleksandr Kolchenko to 10 years of prison. Human rights experts have called the case a “show trial of...
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...
