Prosecutor ‘loses’ critical evidence regarding Khmelnytsky Maidan killings – Human Rights in Ukraine

Three and a half years after shots fired from inside the Khmelnytsky SBU [Security Service] office killed 73-year-old Ludmila Sheremet and seriously injured other Maidan activists, the investigation into the shooting appears to have been deliberately sabotaged

Kilde: Prosecutor ‘loses’ critical evidence regarding Khmelnytsky Maidan killings – Human Rights in Ukraine

Russia hits new depths, jails 76-year-old & gravely ill Crimean Tatar for peaceful protest – Human Rights in Ukraine

A ‘court’ in Russian-occupied Crimea has jailed Server Karametov for ten days for supposedly ‘resisting the police’. The frail pensioner, who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease and other serious illnesses had already been fined 10 thousand roubles the previous day for what the same ‘judge’, Marina Vladimirovna Kolotsei chose to accept was an ‘unauthorized protest’

Kilde: Russia hits new depths, jails 76-year-old & gravely ill Crimean Tatar for peaceful protest – Human Rights in Ukraine

Tortured and sentenced to 20 years in Russia for being Ukrainian – Human Rights in Ukraine

If Mykola Karpyuk’s involvement in two nationalist organizations made him an obvious target for Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine, Klykh’s link to any nationalist group was fleeting and far in the past.  He was, however, Ukrainian and no more proved needed for a breathtakingly cynical ‘trial’ which disregarded not only alibis and evidence of torture, but even historical fact.

Kilde: Tortured and sentenced to 20 years in Russia for being Ukrainian – Human Rights in Ukraine

Fears for the life of young Ukrainian abducted by Donbas militants – Human Rights in Ukraine

There is still no information about the whereabouts of 22-year-old Mykola Petukhov who was seized by armed militants of the so-called ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ in the early morning of August 31. The abduction is of immense concern since Mykola’s mother reports that a young man, identified only as Oleksiy, was seized just a week ago, and his body found a few days later

Kilde: Fears for the life of young Ukrainian abducted by Donbas militants – Human Rights in Ukraine

European Court asked to intervene over suspected Russian abduction of 19-year-old Ukrainian – Human Rights in Ukraine

There is still no information about the whereabouts of 19-year-old Pavlo Hryb, ten days after he entered Belarus and vanished.  Given the strong grounds for fearing that the young man has been abducted by Russia’s FSB, and that his life could be in danger without badly needed medication, his family and lawyer have asked the  European Court of Human Rights to apply urgent measures under Article 39

Kilde: European Court asked to intervene over suspected Russian abduction of 19-year-old Ukrainian – Human Rights in Ukraine