Europe and Central Asia Archives - Page 11 of 60

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’

Older woman in Ukraine watches the Russian sham referenda in Ukraine unfold

29th September 2022
Russia/Ukraine: Illegitimate results of sham ‘referenda’ must not enable illegal annexation of occupied areas

Russian poet and activist Artyom Kamardin

29th September 2022
Russia: Activist allegedly beaten and raped for reciting anti-war poem online

26th September 2022
Russia/Ukraine: So-called referenda in the occupied territories are in blatant breach of international law

23rd September 2022
Russia: More than 1,300 protesters detained after Putin’s partial military draft

Officials investigate the mass graves in Izium

19th September 2022
Ukraine: Mass graves in Izium is a macabre reminder of the cost of Russian aggression

Ukraine civilians wander liberated streets

13th September 2022
Ukraine: As Ukraine retakes territory from Russia, securing evidence of alleged war crimes is crucial

A Ukrainian car with family belongings attached to the roof

9th September 2022
Russia: ‘Filtration’ of Ukrainian civilians a ‘shocking violation’ of people forced to flee war

Volker Türk has been nominated to be the United Nations human rights chief

8th September 2022
UN: New High Commissioner must be a champion for the victims of human rights violations

A Russian serviceman stands guard the territory outside the second reactor of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in Energodar on May 1, 2022

7th September 2022
Ukraine: Russia’s military activities at nuclear plant risk safety in region

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