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...
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 victim of Russia’s first “absolutely Stalinist trial” spends 4th birthday in brutal isolation
Author: Halya Coynash Oleksandr (Sasha) Kolchenko is spending a fourth birthday in Russian captivity, one of the first victims of Russia’s mounting appetite for fake ‘terrorism’ show trials, aimed at crushing dissent, and trying to...
Russia causes death of revered veteran of Crimean Tatar movement, then tries to hide it
Author: Halya Coynash 83-year-old Vedzhie Kashka, victim of the 1944 Deportation and veteran of the non-violent struggle of the Crimean Tatar people for their rights, died on November 23 after Russian FSB officers burst into a...
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...
Russia-controlled court in Crimea takes 5 minutes to jail Ukrainian academic for 5 years
Author: Halya Coynash A court in Russian-occupied Crimea has sentenced internationally-known academic Dmytro Shtyblikov to five years’ maximum security imprisonment on wildly implausible ‘sabotage’ charges. Shtyblikov had been prevented from seeing an independent lawyer for...
Statement of Ukrainian human rights and civiс NGOs on the persecution of Crimean activists
On 8 November 2017, illegal searches took place in the houses of Crimean Tatar activists and members of the “Crimean Solidarity” public movement: Seytumer Seytumerov, Eldar Kantemirov, the head of the regional Crimean Tatar mejlis...
Crimean Tatar leader Umerov receives Prize of Platform of European Memory and Conscience
Ilmi Umerov, Deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, was awarded the Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience-2017. The ceremony took place on November 8, during the platform conference “100 Years...