“Pointless waiting”: flashmobs for Ukrainian political prisoners held in 11 international airports
On 26 November 2017, on the 28th birthday of Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Kolchenko, which he spends in Russian prison for the fourth year in a row, “Pointless waiting” flashmobs were held in the airports...
Unlawful searches and detainments of Crimean Tatar national movement activists and veterans in Crimea
STATEMENT 24 November 2017 On 23 November 2017, the peaceful residents of the Crimean peninsula suffered the next wave of the attacks on the part of Russian occupation authorities in Crimea. Russia’s FSB [Federal Security...
Ukrainian activists appealed to British experts & politicians to help free Kremlin’s hostages
On 20 November 2017, a set of events dedicated to freeing Ukrainians illegally imprisoned by Russia took place in London. Ukrainian human rights lawyer from the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union Nadiya Volkova and Euromaidan Press...
World-famous intellectuals call on Putin to release filmmaker Sentsov before 2018 Football Cup
People all over the globe are signing the petition of French and other European & American artists, thinkers, writers, and scholars that urges sports fans and admirers of art to join the struggle for the...
World writers community urges Moscow to free Ukrainian and other prisoners of conscience #LetMyPeopleGo
The delegates of the 83th congress of PEN International convened in Lviv, West Ukraine, assure that they will not stop demanding the release of Oleg Sentsov, as well as other Ukrainians and Russians persecuted by...
World powers, human rights organizations indignant about Russia’s conviction of Crimean Tatar leader
The illegal sentencing of Akhtem Chiygoz, a Ukrainian citizen and deputy head of the Crimean Tatar representative assembly (Mejlis), to 8 years in jail by the Moscow-installed authorities in Crimea caused indignation and protest across...
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Euromaidan Press has launched a weekly newsletter to raise the global awareness of the systemic human rights violations the Kremlin regime commits against the citizens of Ukraine. It aims to mobilize the efforts of activists, diplomats, opinion...
Crimean Tatar leader convicted while life of FSB-abducted Ukrainian under threat: LMPG newsletter #1
Euromaidan Press has launched a weekly newsletter to raise the global awareness of the systemic human rights violations the Kremlin regime commits against the citizens of Ukraine. It aims to mobilize the efforts of activists, diplomats, opinion...
Imam of Iranian Sunni Muslims condemns Russia’s persecution of Crimean Tatars
The problem of the Russian occupation of Crimea and oppression of its indigenous Crimean Tatar people has been recently raised for the first time in the mediascape of Iran, a Middle Eastern regional power traditionally...
Tell about the Kremlin hostages at the Berlinale
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine didn’t stop with the occupation of Crimea and war in Donbas. Absurd trials with fabricated cases, conspiratorial accusations of “terrorism,” imprisoned lawyers and journalists, repressions against the native population of Crimea...