“To correct profound injustice”: members of Russian PEN Center call on Putin to free Sentsov
More than eighty Russian writers, journalists, and scholars, mostly the members of the Russian PEN Center and the Free Historical Society, have signed the petition calling on President Putin to pardon the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg...
How Russian ‘law enforcers’ humiliate their Muslim prisoners in Crimea
The relatives of political prisoners united in the Crimean Solidarity movement have discussed the disgraceful and humiliating treatment of the defendants in the ‘Crimean Muslim case’ by Russian security officers. This has been reported by...
French artists call to free Oleg Sentsov and imprisoned Russian artists
Multiple filmmakers and cultural actors around the world (including Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina) are mobilizing for the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. The latter was arrested in May 2014, a few days after the annexation of...
“He was shown a hole and told that would be his grave:” prisoner Vyhivskyi’s father
Author: Kateryna SERGATSKOVA 33 y.o. Ukrainian Valentin Vyhivskyi has been in Russian captivity for two years and two months. On September 18, 2014, the FSB arrested him in Crimea, transferred to Moscow and instituted a...