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- On 30 January, the supreme court in Russia-controlled Crimea rejected an appeal filed by Oleksandr Solodkov, the lawyer of Crimean Tatar activist Mustafa Degermendzhy, a suspect in…
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Lawyer Oleksiy Ladin has complained to the Russia-controlled Crimean prosecutor's office that his client Ismail Ramazanov, a resident of the village of Novyy Myr, was beaten by law…
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An activist of the Crimean Tatar national movement, Kyazim Ametov, has been held in a Simferopol remand centre without reason for 13 days, his lawyer Emil Kurbedinov has told LB.ua…
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On 24 January, a Simferopol district court in Russia-controlled Crimea arrested Crimean Tatar Ismail Ramazanov for 30 days in a remand centre, an LB.ua correspondent has reported.…
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Lawyer Iryna Nozdrovska was found dead outside Kyiv on 1 January. She had dealth with the case of her sister Svitlana Sapatinska who was hit dead by a drunk driver two years ago.
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- Three Russian nationals have requested political asylum in Ukraine over the week because of persecution by Russian law enforcers, the State Border Service has said. "Last week alone…
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The Ukrainian parliament's representative for human rights, Valeriya Lutkovska, has once again inquired her Russian counterpart Tatyana Moskalkova about 19-year-old Ukrainian national…
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The lawyers of public association Crimean Solidarity on 26 November presented at a meeting in Simferopol a memo on how to behave during searches and detentions, and made public a round…
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The Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Issues (Third) Committee of the UN General Assembly has approved an updated resolution on human rights in Russia-annexed Crimea.
The draft…
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President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday, 14 November, signed a decree declaring 2018 the Year of Implementation of Legal Education Project in Ukraine.
The project will facilitate the…
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Kazakh journalist Zhanara Akhmet has been detained in Kyiv, her lawyer Vladyslav Hryshchenko has told Hromadske.
She was detained because Kazakh authorities had put her on Interpol's…
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On the evening of 30 September, Open Russia published a letter written by Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov whom Russia sentenced to 20 years on terrorism charges which are widely believed…
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A Russia-controlled court in Simferopol has found Ilmi Umerov, a deputy head of the Crimean Tatar self-styled government, Majlis, guilty of separatism and sentenced him to two years…
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Simferopol's Zaliznychnyy district court in Kremlin-controlled Crimea handed down a 30-month suspended sentence on local journalist Mykola Semena with a probation period of three…
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On 20 September, the State Border Service of Ukraine detained an Uzbek resident, born 1966, who arrived at Kyiv's Zhulyany airport from Ankara.
The border service said on its website…