A large-scale event in support of activist and blogger Serhiy Sternenko, who is being held in an Odesa pre-trial detention center following conviction, was held near the Office of the President of Ukraine on Saturday […]
21.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Kyiv Court of Appeal overturned the judgment banning the distribution of “The Vasyl Stus Case” book authored by journalist Vakhtang Kipiani. According to lawyer Vyacheslav Yakubenko, a representative of the book’s author, the ruling […]
19.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation released the final report on the circumstances of crash of Ukraine International Airlines passenger plane (Flight PS752) in January 2020. As Reuters reports, the document states that the plane was shot down due […]
18.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2021, the citizens of Ukraine may lose about 10,000 land plots in the territory of Crimea. The one-year term, which the Russian occupation authorities gave to "foreigners" for alienation, expires in March. Human rights […]
17.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Viktor Medvedchuk, an MP from the Opposition Platform – For Life party and father of Vladimir Putin's godchild, appealed to the Supreme Court of Ukraine to challenge the presidential decree imposing sanctions on him. “On […]
17.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
“The best way to judge the state is to look at the way justice is done there.” Stanislaw Jerzy Leс – polish poet and philosopher What happened? The Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) is one […]
09.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 7 December, the Council of the European Union adopted a global human rights sanctions regime. The established legal framework provides for the EU travel ban and the freezing of funds applying to individuals and […]
04.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine strongly condemns the unfounded and politically motivated ruling of the Southern Military District Court in Rostov-on-Don (Russia) of 3 March 2021 to convict Ukrainian citizen Oleh Prykhodko on fabricated charges of “preparations for act […]
04.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) accepted the application lodged by 67-year-old Nina Panfilova from Shakhtarsk town, Donetsk region, who became homeless overnight. Her apartment and all her property were completely destroyed with a […]
03.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Over the occupation of Crimea, Ukrainian human rights activists have recorded at least 370 cases of persecution of journalists on the peninsula, including 100 cases over the first month of the seizure. In fact, the […]
01.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
A lawyer of the convicted opposition leader Alexei Navalny said that his client had been taken from the pre-trial detention centre and suggested that he could have been transferred to a penal colony. "Today, when […]
26.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Mass protests took place across Ukraine after the sentence was passed on civic activist Serhiy Sternenko. The Odesa court passed a guilty verdict in the case over abduction of a member of one of the […]
24.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The foreign ministers of the 27 member states of the European Union made a political decision to impose new sanctions against those responsible for the arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Sanctions will be […]
23.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The health of Ukrainian political prisoners held in Crimea and Russia is a matter of particular concern to human rights defenders. These people are the most vulnerable category of Ukrainian nationals as they actually are […]
22.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Former Ukrainian political prisoners, who were convicted in Russia, have set up a joint platform, the main goal of which is to release Ukrainians held in prisons in the Russian Federation and in the temporarily […]
22.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The United States has imposed sanctions against another 43 Belarusian nationals for rigging the presidential election and violence against peaceful protesters, the press service of the U.S. Department of State reports. "Today, the U.S. Department […]
19.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
At 04:00 today, Russian mercenaries from the Federal Security Service (FSB) raided seven houses of Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimea. Six people have been detained. They are charged with participation in the Hizb ut-Tahrir, […]
17.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Centre for Global Studies "Strategy XXI" and an expert group, consisting of representatives of all Black Sea countries and the Maritime Expert Platform, monitored the security situation in the Black Sea region during 2020. […]
17.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On Tuesday, 16 February, Belarusian security forces conducted mass searches in the offices of journalists and human rights activists. The European Union condemned such actions of the Belarusian law enforcement officers, spokesperson for the European […]
17.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 15 February, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba took part in a conference initiated by Canada, at which 52 states approved the Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention in State-to-State Relations. Canada’s initiative brings […]
16.02.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
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