Human rights in Ukraine — website of the Kharkiv Human Rights ...
News and analysis about human rights and war crimes, interviews, legal explanations — on the website of one of the oldest human rights organizations in Ukraine.
Russia charges Memorial head with ‘justifying terrorism’ for calling ...
6 days ago · Sergei Davidis, Head of the authoritative Memorial Support for Political Prisoners Project, is facing criminal charges over his Facebook reposting of the human rights group’s statement declaring 24 Ukrainian POWs on ‘trial’ in Russia to be political prisoners. Russia is violating international law by bringing extraordinary ‘terrorism’ charges against Ukrainians defending their ...
About the KHPG - Human Rights in Ukraine
Nov 10, 1992 · The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) is one of the oldest Ukrainian human rights organizations; it traces its origins back to the Soviet-era dissident movement of the 1970s-1980s.
Russia’s ‘strategy on fighting extremism’ is a threat to all …
1 day ago · Russia has long used dangerously broad legislation against so-called ‘extremism’ as a weapon of political and religious persecution in occupied Crimea. Its latest version of a ‘strategy on countering extremism in 2025’ is, the Crimean Human Rights Group warns, a …
After fake ‘release’, Russia’s FSB re-abduct Donbas hostages first ...
1 day ago · Such a repeat abduction seems likely given that the Russian FSB did precisely that in the case of Stanislav Boranov, Volodymyr Cherkas and Oleksandr Tytarenko. Although it is now clear that the men, and a fourth person who was probably killed while being taken prisoner, were seized in the same ‘case’, their families went through …
Financial support for KHPG - Kharkiv Human Rights Protection …
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine changed our work dramatically, becoming the number one reason for the suffering of Ukrainians. Our mission is to document as many facts as possible for future trials of war criminals and to help those suffering from the storm of war each day whose stories we publish regularly.
Ukrainian POWs tortured for ‘confessions’ to Russia's war crimes …
Oct 28, 2024 · Similar articles Russia fabricates massive sentences against Ukrainian POWs, accusing them of its carnage and devastation in Ukraine Court in Russia rules that 20-year sentence against Ukrainian POW for defending Mariupol is not long enough Russia sentences Ukrainian marine to 20 years for defending Mariupol Huge mass ‘sentences’ after fake trial of Ukrainian POWs whom Russia accused of ...
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Severe deprivation of liberty in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine during the Russian occupation. On March 2, 2022, ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan announced the opening of an investigation into the Situation in Ukraine from November 21, 2013, onwards, thereby encompassing within its scope any past and present allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide within the meaning of the ...
Assistance to prisoners of war, civil prisoners and their families ...
Jun 11, 2024 · For several months, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group has been searching for prisoners of war and missing persons and providing assistance to their families. We publish the findings and results of this meticulous work.
Invaders gun down more unarmed Ukrainian POWs as proof …
Dec 22, 2024 · Ukraine’s prosecutor has initiated a new probe over the apparent killing in cold blood of four Ukrainian prisoners of war. Since the four Ukrainian defenders had surrendered, and therefore had protected status under international law, the criminal investigation, under the procedural control of the Donetsk regional prosecutor, is under Article 438 § 2 (a war crime involving homicide).