Crimean political prisoner on hunger strike subjected to new ‘trial’ & threats of reprisals for ‘free will’

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 - 1:13 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

Crimean political prisoner Volodymyr Balukh was in ‘court’ again on 15 May, looking gaunt and tired after two months of hunger strike in protest at his first prison sentence on overtly falsified charges. Balukh has faced constant harassment under Russian occupation because pf his pro-Ukrainian position and the Ukrainian flag he refused to remove from the roof of his home, and this new ‘trial’ seems aimed at revenge against a person whom the occupation regime has not been able to break. …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group