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- Interpol
- Extraditions
- Reforms in Ukraine
- Persecution of lawyers
- COVID-19
- "Meal For a Doctor" campaign
- Vlad Plahotniuc
- Freedom of speech
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Zhanaozen
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- Igor Vinyavskiy
- Humanitarian aid
- Oppression of the opposition
- Vladimir Kozlov
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- Vadim Kuramshin
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- Alexandr Pavlov
- Mukhtar Ablyazov
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- Ukrainian World
- Oleg Sentsov
- Nadiya Savchenko
- Zinaida Mukhortova
- Russia
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- Rafis Kashapov
- Chernobyl
- Nadia Savchenko
- Bota Jardemalie
- Rule of law in Poland
- Magnitsky Act
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- Polish judiciary
- EU
#LetMyPeopleGo campaign
The Open Dialogue Foundation focuses its activities on laying the analytical grounds for an international campaign, aiming at the release of the political prisoners from the #LetMyPeopleGo list that are kept in Russia or on the territories of the illegally occupied Crimea.
From the moment of the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula by the Russian armed forces, the number of cases of human rights violations in Crimea has dramatically increased. Many citizens of Ukraine have been unlawfully detained and judged by the Russian authorities. All victims have their own story to be told and need support in this difficult situation. They require personalised legal aid, they want to be heard and seen on the international arena. The first report on the political prisoners kept in Russia was prepared in 2015, during a large-scale campaign of support for, at the time still imprisoned, Nadiya Savchenko.
ODF was actively angeged in the campaign of support for Nadiya Savchenko by promoting “Savchenko List” in the European Parliament and in the national parliaments of the EU member states. It presented proposals of individual targeted sanctions against Russian officials involved in the human rights violations. The Foundation has also been countering Russian attempts to disseminate false information about the cases of the ‘hostages’
The #LetMyPeopleGo campaign has been launched by the Centre for Civil Liberties Euromaisan SOS and is supported by numerous Ukrainian and international organisations: People in Need, Euromaidan Press, Euromaidan Warszawa, Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ukrainain Ombudsman Office, etc.
Facebook: #LetMyPeopleGo Ukraine, #LetMyPeopleGo English; Twitter: #LetMyPeopleGo
Publications
- Save Oleg Sentsov: time is ticking
- Open Address from the Human Rights Agenda to US State Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker
- Appeal for the urgent release of Crimean Tatar political prisoner Bekir Degermendzhi whose life is at risk
- The list of Ukrainian citizens who have been subjected to politically motivated criminal prosecution by Russia’s law enforcement bodies in the years 2014-2017
- Russia abducts a young disabled Ukrainian and charges him with terrorism
- EU personal sanctions for the prosecution of Ukrainian citizens: one step closer
- Criminal prosecution of Ukrainian citizens for political reasons in Russia and occupied Crimea
- About the need for urgent reaction of the European Union to the organised attack against attorneys and people who support political prisoners in occupied Crimea
- The list of Ukrainian citizens who have been subjected to politically motivated criminal prosecution by Russia’s law enforcement bodies in the years 2014-2016
News
- Bundestag event and meetings in Berlin with Oleg Sentsov, CCL & FIDU
- ODF among signatories of petition to prevent the restoration of Russia’s right to participate in PACE
- Civil liberties, political prisoners and lawyers’ rights – ODF at the Italian Senate
- Political Persecution in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan – an expert seminar during HDIM 2017
- Invitation to a seminar: “Human Rights and Political Persecution in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan”- OSCE HDIM 2017
- Activities for Ukraine and not only. Selected initiatives and projects of the Open Dialog Foundation 2016-17
- European Parliament’s plenary debate and a resolution on Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia and situation in Crimea
- “Ukrainian Political Prisoners in Russia and occupied Crimea” – debate event at the EP
- Invitation to a debate “Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia and Crimea” and a movie screening of Oleg Sentsov, Ukrainian filmmaker and political prisoner in Russia