The forgotten victims

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) assessed the human rights situation in eastern Ukraine in summer of 2014, putting a special focus on civilian victims who keep on suffering from the ongoing...

Abductions and torture in Ukraine

According to Amnesty International, the situation in eastern Ukraine has to be described as lawless. Hundreds of people became victims of torture and abductions. Chances that courts worth their name will shed light on these cases are low with both...

An invalid Referendum

From May 6th to 16th, Human Rights Centre Memorial observed the events around the Donbass status referendums in the Donetsk region. Besides irregularities in the referendum itself, they witnessed eruptions of violence, directed against political activists, but also from Ukrainian...