Sakharov Prize for Courage Awarded to Jailed Russian Writer of banned “Crimea is Ukraine” text

Monday, November 6, 2017 - 4:11 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

Boris Stomakhin, a Russian writer serving a six-year prison sentence in Russia for supposed ‘extremism’ has been honoured ‘For Courage’ by the Andrei Sakharov Committee on Journalism as an Act of Courage. The Committee, posted Stomakhin’s 2014 article ‘Crimea is Ukraine’ in full. …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group