News and analysis about human rights and war crimes, interviews, legal explanations — on the website of one of the oldest human rights organizations in Ukraine.

2 天之前 · With President Donald Trump set to initiate some form of peace negotiations on Ukraine this year, the coalition of human rights organisations, led by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Centre For Civil Liberties (Ukraine) and Memorial (Russia) are launching the PEOPLE FIRST! campaign.

1 天前 · A court in St. Petersburg has sentenced Ivan Zabavsky to 11 years on mystery ‘spying’ charges, laid long after the 29-year-old Ukrainian was seized by the Russian invaders in Kharkiv oblast. MediaZona reported on 30 January 2025 that the 11-year harsh-regime sentence had been passed by the St. Petersburg municipal court.

2024年6月11日 · For several months, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group has been searching for prisoners of war and missing persons and providing assistance to their families. We publish the findings and results of this meticulous work.

5 天之前 · Russia has long used dangerously broad legislation against so-called ‘extremism’ as a weapon of political and religious persecution in occupied Crimea. Its latest version of a ‘strategy on countering extremism in 2025’ is, the Crimean Human Rights Group warns, a …

2024年11月11日 · Severe deprivation of liberty in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine during the Russian occupation. On March 2, 2022, ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan announced the opening of an investigation into the Situation in Ukraine from November 21, 2013, onwards, thereby encompassing within its scope any past and present allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide within the meaning of the ...

1 天前 · Russia’s Southern District Military Court in Rostov has passed a 20-year sentence against Maksym Timofieiev on identical charges to those used to sentence another Ukrainian from occupied Melitopol, Maksym Vorobiov, to 16 years in October 2024. Both men were illegally tried under Russia’s flawed terrorism legislation, although the impugned actions would have, at most, constituted acts of ...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine changed our work dramatically, becoming the number one reason for the suffering of Ukrainians. Our mission is to document as many facts as possible for future trials of war criminals and to help those suffering from the storm of war each day whose stories we publish regularly.

1992年11月10日 · The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) is one of the oldest Ukrainian human rights organizations; it traces its origins back to the Soviet-era dissident movement of the 1970s-1980s.

2024年12月22日 · Ukraine’s prosecutor has initiated a new probe over the apparent killing in cold blood of four Ukrainian prisoners of war. Since the four Ukrainian defenders had surrendered, and therefore had protected status under international law, the criminal investigation, under the procedural control of the Donetsk regional prosecutor, is under Article 438 § 2 (a war crime involving homicide).