Blogger who wrote of MH17 and Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine held prisoner in occupied Donetsk – Human Rights in Ukraine

Oleh Halaziuk’s imprisonment, and his writing in the face of real danger should be heeded by all those who assume that Ukrainians who remained in the Russian-controlled ’Donbas republics’ did so out of pro-Russian sentiments, or similar.

Kilde: Blogger who wrote of MH17 and Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine held prisoner in occupied Donetsk – Human Rights in Ukraine

Critic of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine gets 3.5 year jail sentence – Human Rights in Ukraine

A court in Moscow has sentenced 37-year-old Denis Bakholdin to three and a half years’ imprisonment for allegedly belonging to the legal Ukrainian organization Right Sector while in Ukraine.  The prosecution had claimed that Bakholdin had gone to Ukraine to take part in the war in Donbas “to harm the interests of the Russian Federation”.

Kilde: Critic of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine gets 3.5 year jail sentence – Human Rights in Ukraine