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In this week’s bulletin: Analysis –East European anti-colonialism; Ukraine’s grassroots feminism; Life under occupation – report; more evidence of Russian torture; plus religious persecution; Fundraiser for “dandelions”
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
‘I told the Russians at the checkpoints that I was going to Azovstal’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 7th)
Mariupol man abducted, tortured and sentenced in Russia to 16 years for defending Ukraine in 2016 (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 5th)
‘We prayed aloud all the way,’ says deacon Mykola Serdiuk, describing how his family left their occupied village (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 3rd)
25-year-old Crimean Tatar mother ‘on trial’ for failing to report a 2016 social media conversation to Russia’s FSB (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 5th)
Abducted Ukrainians tortured into claiming Ukraine carried out Russia’s attack on Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 4th)
Illegally imprisoned Crimean Tatars (Twitter, April 3rd)
Russia charges abducted Ukrainian Orthodox priest with ‘spying’ for Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 3rd)
Crimean occupation ‘court’ orders retrial of four Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced for studying the Bible (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 2nd)
Russia stages secret ‘spying trial’ two years after forcibly disappearing Ukrainian patriot Iryna Horobtsova (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 1st)
Life under Occupation (Alterpravo, March 2024)
News from Ukraine – general:
Children to be mandatorily evacuated from 52 settlements in Sumy Oblast (Ukrainska Pravda, April 5th)
Russian forces launch chemical attacks more frequently in combat zone in Ukraine (Ukrainska Pravda, April 5th)
289 civilians, including 15 children, have been killed in mine incidents during full-scale war (Ukrainska Pravda, April 4th)
Ukraine: Bilkis, grassroots feminism (Ukraine Solidarity EU, March 29th)
Ukraine’s ‘angels’ who look after, evacuate civilians left in front-line Donbas (Kyiv Independent, March 22nd)
War-related news from Russia:
Boris Akunin and the 2 Russia problem (The Russian Reader, 6 April)
Relentless torment of 71-year-old Memorial Co-Chair Oleg Orlov, imprisoned for condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 2nd)
Why the Kremlin blames Ukraine for Moscow attack: Redirecting rage, reducing risk (Meduza, 3 April)
Analysis and comment:
The fall and ambivalent rise of east European anti-colonialism (Joseph Grim Feinberg on Commons.com.ua, 3 April)
Research of human rights abuses:
Eight torture chambers in 21 months — the geography of captivity (Tribunal for Putin,April 7th)
Destroyed Shapovalivka images from the air (Tribunal for Putin,April 4th)
Ukrainian civil society joined Restoring Justice for Ukraine Conference in The Hague (Zmina, April 3rd)
The youngest victim of Russia’s Bucha atrocities was less than two years old (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 1st)
“A step towards creating an effective system of support for victims and witnesses”. Roman Nekoliak about the event “How to ensure protection against re-traumatisation of victims of war crimes” (Centre for Civil Liberties, April 3rd)
UN Says Russia Continues to Torture, Execute Ukrainian POWs (UN, March 25th)
Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (UN, March 2024)
International solidarity:
To support political prisoners, we paid out €9000 in three months (Solidarity Zone, 4 April)
Spring fundraiser for “dandelions” – 838,000 UAH (Solidarity Collectives, 3 April)
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