Europe and Central Asia Archives - Page 11 of 61

A man walks in front of a police station destroyed by shelling in Kharkiv on March 25, 2022, during Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine. - Russian strikes targeting a medical facility in Kharkiv on March 25, 2022, killed at least four civilians and wounded several others, Ukrainian officials said.

21st December 2022
Ukraine: Devastating power cuts undermining civilian life as Christmas approaches

15th December 2022
NORTHERN IRELAND: United Nations for Troubles Bill to be scrapped

12th December 2022
Russia: Opposition politician Ilya Yashin sentenced to eight and half years in jail for denouncing Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine

9th December 2022
Northern Ireland: Calls from COE commissioner for Troubles Bill to be scrapped

Hanna Selivon standing in her destroyed home in Chernihiv, Ukraine. July 2022.

6th December 2022
Ukraine: Older people face heightened risks, unable to access housing in displacement following Russian invasion – new report

Authorities in Russia clamp down on a protest.

24th November 2022
Russia: Journalists and independent monitors being silenced to stifle reporting of protests – new report

22nd November 2022
Russia: Court upholds acquittal of feminist artist on trial for ‘pornography’

14th November 2022
Ukraine: Preserving evidence of war crimes as Ukraine retakes its territory key for victims of war crimes

A bus taking people from Mariupol, Ukraine, arrives in the village of Bezimenne in Donetsk, 7 May, 2022.

10th November 2022
Ukraine: Russia’s unlawful transfer of civilians a war crime and likely a crime against humanity – new report

28th October 2022
Write For Rights 2022: Zineb Redouane – FRANCE: Hit in the face and killed by a tear gas grenade

28th October 2022
Write For Rights 2022: Aleksandra Skochilenko – Russia: Jailed for opposing Russian aggression

Emine Ocak, a member of Saturday Mothers Turkish group is detained by Turkish female riot police during a demonstration on August 25, 2018 in Istanbul. - Istanbul police break up a regular demonstration by Turkish mothers and other relatives of people that were forcibly disappeared in the 1980s and 1990s, detaining dozens as they marked holding the 700th such weekly protest. (Photo by Hayri TUNC / AFP) (Photo credit should read HAYRI TUNC/AFP/Getty Images) ------- The photo shows Emine Ocak, mother of Hasan Ocak, who was forcibly disappeared in the hands of the state in 1995 at age 23. The longstanding peaceful vigil known as the ‘Saturday Mothers’ vigil first started as a response to the hundreds of reported cases of enforced disappearances during the 1980s and 1990s by relatives of people who were forcibly disappeared and to protest against the prevalent impunity for grave human rights violations of the day. The exact circumstances of the disappearances in the vast majority of cases are still unknown, including the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of victims, and those responsible have not been brought to justice. Saturday Mothers have held 699 peaceful gatherings since May 1995. During this time, many participants have faced intimidation, harassment, excessive use of force, arbitrary detention and unjust prosecution. In 1999, as a result, the organizers decided to stop holding the weekly vigils, which resumed in 2009 to continue with their demand of truth and justice for all cases of enforced disappearances. On 25 August, police in Istanbul used unnecessary and excessive force, including tear gas, plastic bullets and water cannons, to disperse participants of a weekly vigil - known as the ‘Saturday Mothers vigil’ - held for victims of enforced disappearance. The longstanding protest was marking its 700th week since it was first held in 1995. Scores of participants, including elderly relatives of people who were forcibly disappeared in the hands of the state, were ill-treated and 47 people were detained before being released from police custody later that day.

25th October 2022
Protect the Protest of Saturday Mothers/People’s weekly vigil

Houses in one of the residential areas of Lviv, Ukraine, have been completely cut off from electricity due to Russian missile attacks.

20th October 2022
Ukraine: Russian attacks on critical energy infrastructure amount to war crimes

13th October 2022
Latvia: Refugees and migrants arbitrarily detained, tortured and forced to ‘voluntarily’ return to their countries

Workers deal with the aftermath of the Russian shelling in Kyiv

10th October 2022
Russia/Ukraine: Russian attacks on Kyiv and cities across Ukraine are an escalation of aggression and apparent violations of laws of war

Destroyed humanitarian convoy in Zaporizhzhia

3rd October 2022
Ukraine: Missile attack on humanitarian convoy in Zaporizhzhia further proof of Russia’s ‘utter disregard for civilian lives’

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