Sanctions needed to free Ukrainian captives in Russia
Sanctions and high-profile negotiators are the most effective tools for the release of Ukrainians held hostage by the Kremlin. These are the findings of a study by media and legal experts from the Ukrainian Media Initiative for...
Crimean court sentences activist who flew Ukrainian flag in gravely falsified trial
On 16 January 2017, Volodymyr Balukh, the Crimean farmer who kept raising the Ukrainian flag above his house after Russia’s occupation of Crimea, was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison in a second trial...
Here’s what the youngest prisoner of the Kremlin wants you to know
If you were a 19-year old lad held in Russian jail for no crime save for being a representative of your own nation, what would you wish? For the first time in four months, the...
Sister of youngest Ukrainian prisoner of the Kremlin asks Council of Europe if it’s ready to give up its values
The European Convention on Human Rights stipulates that everyone has the right to liberty and security of person and cannot be arbitrary arrested. Member states of the Council of Europe agreed to fulfil these and...
Threat to the life of political prisoner Bekir Dehermendzhy: statement of human rights defenders
On December 14, 2017, at three o’clock in the morning, 57-year-old Crimean Tatar activist Bekir Dehermendzhy, who was put in the Simferopol SIZO and accused of supposed extortion according to a fabricated...
Crimean Tatar political prisoner Bekir Degermendzhy is dangerously ill
Author: Halya Coynash After causing the death of 83-year-old veteran Crimean Tatar activist Vedzhie Kashka, Russia is endangering the life of 57-year-old Bekir Degermendzhy, arrested as part of a particularly cynical FSB attempt to discredit...
“Say ‘Release Sentsov!’ It’s the only thing we can do to feel human”
Author: Michael MacKay, for Radio Lemberg The Ukrainian Canadian Film Festival held a screening Monday night in Ottawa of a powerful documentary called “The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov.” The film is...
Ukrainian World Congress calls to send postcards to Ukrainian political prisoners
The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) calls on the international community to show its support for the many Ukrainian citizens illegally imprisoned by the Russian Federation. Join the Postcards for Prisoners Campaign and send a postcard...
Appeal regarding lack of proper medical care for Oleg Sentsov and other Ukrainian political prisoners
To: H.E. Mr. Sigmar Gabriel Vice-Chancellor, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany As of today, about 60 Ukrainian citizens have been detained on political grounds in the territory of the...
“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...