The prosecution claims that Balukh had, on 11 August 2017, attacked the head of the temporary detention unit in Razdolne, Valery Tkachenko and then poured a cleaning substance over him. Balukh had repeatedly complained that Tkachenko was taking every opportunity to harass and insult him, and the(
6/23 Volodymyr Balukh/ His arrest came nine days after he nailed a plaque to his home, renaming it No. 18 “Heroes of Nebesna Sotnya St’ in memory of the over 100 Maidan activists who were killed / Although the latter has four possible attic premises to search, these were not even opened./
2017.9.22 Mykola Semena に執行猶予2年半 It was thus found that an opinion piece written by Semena contained ‘public calls to action aimed at violating Russia’s territorial integrity’./ The article in question was entiled: “The Blockade – a necessary first step to(
3/23 the arrest on 22 March of Nariman Memedeminov, a well-known Crimean Tatar civic journalist〜The charges appear to be based on YouTube videos posted in 2012 and 2013. This is the latest of several arrests of civic journalists and other activists involved in the Crimea Solidarity initiative,
2/22 69-year-old Anastasia Mukhina (or Mushnina) was seized on8February in ‘LPR’ seemingly for posting leaflets saying: “Rise up, Donbas. Russia has betrayed you”. The so-called ‘LPR ministry of state security is now claiming that they found explosives in her flat & accusing her of havi
4/15 Vitaly Honcharenko was released from custody on April 6 and on April 13 crossed, unimpeded, into Russia, together with three former Kharkiv Berkut colleagues. The four men – Honcharenko, Oleksandr Kostyuk; Vladislav Masteha and Artem Voilokov - have produced a video,