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In this week’s bulletin: Russian persecution of Crimean Tatars; torture of civilians; persecution of children; killing of POWs.
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Statement of human rights organisations on the illegal search and persecution of Crimean lawyers Lilia Hemedzhy and Rustem Kiamelev (Crimean Human Rights Group November 8th)
Crimean Tatar lawyer jailed in Russian terror against defenders of political prisoners (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group November 8th)
Ukraine investigates 49 cases of Russian forces killing 124 Ukrainian POWs (Ukrainska Pravda November 6th)
Huge sentences in Russian-occupied Crimea for alleged attempt to kill notorious ‘Crimean SMERSH’ anti-Ukrainian vigilante (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group November 5th)
Russia refuses critically ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner life-saving heart surgery (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group November 4th)
The situation at the front:
What Ukraine’s Kursk gamble has – and has not – achieved (The Insider November 8th)
Open-source data shows Russia’s equipment losses in Ukraine reached a two-year high in October (Meduza November 5th)
News from Ukraine – general:
Ukraine Fighting for Democracy Shall Protect the Exercise of Political Rights for Citizens – Aivazovska (Opora November 6th)
Second international conference Crimea Global. Understanding Ukraine through the South (Zmina November 4th)
Kharkiv’s historic Derzhprom skyscraper becomes latest victim of Russian bombardments (Kyiv Independent, October 29th)
War-related news from Russia:
The Human Rights Centre ZMINA is listed as an “undesirable” foreign organization in Russia (Zmina November 8th)
Lost in Translation: How African migrants are tricked and threatened into Russian military service (The Insider, November 7th)
Fundraiser for the legal defense of 19-year-old Yuri Mikheev (Solidarity Zone November 7th)
Transgender people in warring Russia (Posle Media November 6th)
Analysis and comment:
Assistance to prisoners of war, civil prisoners and their families. Analytical report (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group November 6th)
Ukraine’s resistance – the challenges of the war for independence (Anti-Capitalist Resistance, November 5th)
European Commission report on Ukraine’s progress towards the EU took into account the recommendations of human rights defenders (Zmina November 4th)
Ukraine: civil society and labour in the third winter of Russia’s all-out war (Labour Hub, November 4th)
Newly published documents from invasion’s first weeks reveal Putin’s plans to render post-war Ukraine powerless (Meduza November 4th)
Ukrainians ask what I’m hearing about our country on the US campaign trail. The truth? We’re all but forgotten (The Guardian, November 2nd)
Research of human rights abuses:
Russia’s torture of Ukrainian civilians and POWs is a crime against humanity – UN investigators (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group November 8th)
‘Cascade of Cruelty’ (Tribunal for Putin November 7th)
«I would ask you to facilitate the exchange and return of every Ukrainian home to Ukraine». Leniya Umerova and Oleksandra Romantsova during the side event of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly (Centre for Civil Liberties November 7th)
«Thousands of people are thought to be missing, and the Russian Federation is responsible for their fate». Valentyn Serdiuk speaks at a side-event during the 2024 Warsaw Human Dimension Conference (Centre for Civil Liberties November 7th)
Russification at any cost in occupied Ukraine with children even physically punished for speaking Ukrainian (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group November 4th)
Human Rights Committee Adopts Report on Views Concerning Individual Communications on Colombia, Ecuador, Finland, Greece, New Zealand, Sweden, Türkiye, Turkmenistan and Ukraine (UNHCR, November 4th)
UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine confirmed that torture of Ukrainians is a crime against humanity (Zmina November 1st)
International solidarity:
Argentine’s MP in Parlasur meets with human rights activists and families of Ukrainians held in captivity (Centre for Civil Liberties November 7th)
Ukraine rejects “pacifying the aggressor” as a path to peace (Zmina October 30th)
Upcoming events:
Monday 18 November, 18.0. “Political prisoners in Russia and the Occupied Territories of Ukraine”. Panel discussion with speakers from Memorial, Kharkhiv Human Rights Protection Group and others. Queen Mary University, London, Centre for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies.
This is a hybrid event with in-person and on-line attendance. Register on eventbrite here
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