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Nationalist violence is on the rise in Ukraine, attacks on government critics have become more frequent, and the police are not responding. This is stated in a report prepared by the international organization Human Rights Watch (headquartered in the USA), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the deputy director of the organization for Europe and Central Asia, Reichek Denber, Ukraine is degrading in matters of ensuring human rights, covering up violence as a necessity...

The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its global report accused Ukraine of violating human rights, Strana reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The document notes that the Ukrainian authorities “are committing certain extremely undemocratic actions and proposing new bills that undermine the fundamental freedoms of Ukrainians.” The organization describes the situation in eastern Ukraine, where “civilians...

Ukraine ignores all the comments of the human rights organization “Human Rights Watch” on high-profile crimes against freedom of speech in Ukraine and the persecution of civilians for expressing their will. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Tatyana Cooper, a Human Rights Watch researcher in Ukraine, announced this at a press conference in Kiev, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The most important negative phenomenon...

Ukrainian journalist and anti-Russian propagandist Vitaly Portnikov is dissatisfied with the statement of the coordinator for Ukraine from the human rights organization Human Rights Watch Tanya Cooper, who called the blocking of Russian sites “a cynical, politically calculated attack on the freedom of dissemination of information.” Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Before getting involved in Ukraine, Ms. Cooper worked in the Moscow office of the organization. Excellent…

Russian citizen Vladimir Bezobrazov, who was detained by the SBU in 2014 in Odessa and released in December 2016, is experiencing serious health problems due to the conditions of detention in the secret SBU prison. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Tanya Cooper, a researcher at Human Rights Watch in Ukraine, announced this at a press conference in Kiev. “Bezobrazov...

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International sent a letter to the Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios, calling on him to “conduct an investigation into the situation with the possible use of facilities of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) as unofficial places of detention,” reports Kommersant, which has received it even before the official publication turned out to be the text of the document. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte A letter written by…

The SBU refuses to admit the existence of torture chambers and places of illegal detention of people, despite the specific facts cited by human rights activists. Tatyana Lokshina, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch for Europe and Central Asia, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte According to her, the department responds negatively...

Ukrainian security forces carry out arrests in Donbass, violating the law, while the state refuses to notice the problem of abductions of citizens. Rachel Denber, deputy director of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, stated this at a briefing in Kyiv. According to her, cases of illegal kidnappings also occur from territories not controlled by Ukraine, but the very fact that the problem of violation of the law by its own security forces...

Ukraine has broken Russia's records for censorship and banning freedom of expression. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Yulia Gorbunova, a researcher for the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch, writes about this on the official website of the organization. In particular, an international human rights organization negatively assessed Kiev’s ban on 38 Russian books and called it censorship. According to…

Kyiv, October 21 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch has become a victim of deception by the DPR militias, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine claims. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Unfortunately, these are methods that are used by terrorists controlled by Russia, including for the purpose of discrediting the ATO forces. We have repeatedly published evidence that such...