Views 211 The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), the Canada-based assembly of Ukrainian communities abroad, has been branded an “undesirable organization” in…
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Activist from Ecodefense, under pressure from Russia’s ‘foreign agent’ law, flees to Germany
Views 194 The head of a Russian environmental organization has been forced to flee to Germany to avoid arrest on…
Statement against persecution of human rights defenders in the occupied Crimea
Views 201 On 30 May 2019 two Crimean Tatar activists Lutfie Zudieva and Mumine Salieva were detained by the Russian…
Two Crimean Solidarity women activists detained in Russian-occupied Crimea
Views 217 Two Crimean Solidarity activists, both of them mothers with young children, have been arrested in occupied Crimea and…
16-year-old Crimean Tatar sentenced for removing 3 Russian flags in occupied Crimea
Views 321 16-year-old Abduraman Abduveliev has received a 6-month restricted liberty sentence for taking down three Russian flags in the…
“My only crime is that I am a Muslim”: mass terrorism arrests hit Crimean Tatar solidarity campaign
Views 364 On 27 March, security services in Crimea carried out the largest house search operation of Crimean Tatar homes…
Russia sentences gravely ill Ukrainian political prisoner it abducted to 6 years, he launches hunger strike
Views 150 Pavlo Hryb, a 20-year-old severely ill Ukrainian student kidnapped to Russia and accused of aiding terrorism, was on…
The first criminal case under Kremlin’s “undesirables” law
Views 171 On 23 January, Anastasia Shevchenko, an activist of the Open Russia movement, became the first person arrested and…
“For Human Rights” Group Labeled Foreign Agent
Views 183 On Wednesday, February 13, it was reported that Russia’s Justice Ministry labeled organisation “For Human Rights”, Forum member, a ‘foreign agent’. The Ministry website states that…
Russia: First criminal case under “undesirable organizations” law marks a new level of repression
Views 144 The Russian authorities have for the first time used the repressive “undesirable organizations” law to open a criminal…
Azov Sea Conflict: what happened and how to react
Views 11,579 On November 25, the Ukrainian ships “Berdyansk,” “Nikopol” and “Yany Kapu,” en route from Odessa to Mariupol through…
First ‘non-reporting’ criminal case opened in Crimea
Views 193 The first criminal case involving failure to report a crime (art. 205.6 of the Criminal Code) has been opened…