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Following Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea in April 2014, and the ensuing armed conflict in the Donbas region, EHRAC has been working in partnership with the\u00a0Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU)<\/a>\u00a0to litigate related cases of human rights violations at the European Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n

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Two of these cases relate to Ukrainian citizens accused of being members of a nationalist group in Ukraine, the Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian National Self-Defence, and taking part in fighting in Chechnya during the 1990s, in support of Chechen separatists. Mykola Karpiuk and Stanislav Klikh were detained by the Russian authorities in Russia (Mr Klikh was detained in Orel while on a trip to Russia) in March and August 2014 respectively, and held in several locations in the Stavropol region of the North Caucasus. They are charged with pre-meditated murder (and attempted pre-meditated murder) of members of the Russian armed forces during the course of combat operations in Chechnya. Mr Karpiuk is also charged with creating and leading an armed group in the course of these operations. They are currently detained in Grozny, Chechnya, where the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic is hearing the joint case against them.<\/p>\n

Mr Klikh and Mr Karpiuk\u2019s trial comes after a number of other high-profile Ukrainians have arrested and detained in Russian on allegedly trumped-up charges, largely labelled as \u2018show trials\u2019 by external observers and international media outlets.[1]<\/a>\u00a0Nadia Savchenko, a Ukrainian helicopter pilot, was captured in eastern Ukraine and then transferred to Russian territory. She was accused of having been complicit in the deaths of two Russian journalists, and of illegally entering Russia. Another high-profile case is that of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film maker, who was arrested on terror charges in May 2014. He was accused of attempting to blow up a statue of Lenin in Crimea. He was sentenced to twenty years of hard labour in August 2015.<\/p>\n

To date, Mr Klikh and Mr Karpiuk have been denied access to their families. The Ukrainian Consul, Aleksandr Kovtun, met with Mr Klikh and Mr Karpiuk for the first time on 26 October 2015, having previously been refused access. Mr Klikh\u2019s and Mr Karpiuk\u2019s access to lawyers of their choosing has been severely restricted. Mr Karpiuk was denied access to a lawyer of his choice until 14 September 2015, when Dokka Itslayev, a lawyer based in Grozny (and instructed by Mr Karpiuk\u2019s wife) met with him (Mr Karpiuk has also subsequently been visited by Russian lawyer, Ilya Novikov, who is assisting with the case in the Russian courts). Mr Klikh was denied access to a lawyer of his choice until 16 June 2015, when Marina Dubrovina, a lawyer based in Krasnodar region (and instructed by his parents), met with him. Both Mr Klikh and Mr Karpiuk have told their lawyers that they were tortured by the Russian authorities in order to extract confessions.<\/p>\n

Requests for interim measures were submitted to the European Court on 12 December 2014 (on behalf of Mr Karpiuk) and 11 February 2015 (on behalf of Mr Klikh). The Court issued an order for interim measures in Mr Karpiuk\u2019s case, and asked the Russian Government for information on Mr Klikh\u2019s location and the charges against him. A further request for interim measures was submitted on behalf of Mr Klikh on 22 September 2015, in response to which the Court asked the Russian Government for information on his state of health. EHRAC and UHHRU are preparing a response to the information that has been disclosed by the Government.<\/p>\n

On 5 October 2015, UHHRU and the Center for Civil Liberties held a\u00a0joint press conference<\/a>\u00a0inviting Mykola\u2019s wife and Stanislav\u2019s mother to speak about their cases. A\u00a0further joint press conference<\/a>\u00a0took place on 7 November 2015. \u00a0The two organisations have been working on the cases in Ukraine, gathering evidence and raising awareness about Mr Klikh\u2019s and Mr Karpiuk\u2019s situation. The Center for Civil Liberties has also launched a social media campaign called\u00a0#LetMyPeopleGo with EuroMaidanSOS<\/a>. The cases \u2013 and the political nature of the trials \u2013 have been widely reported in\u00a0international media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a>\u00a0For example, please see the Economist\u2019s article,\u00a0The Kremlin\u2019s new show trials<\/em><\/a>, 15 August 2015<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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