28 Hostages of the Kremlyn

The report was produced as part of the ‘LetMyPeopleGo’ advocacy campaign
through the joint efforts of the ‘Euromaidan SOS’ initiative,
the Centre for Civil Liberties and the Open Dialog Foundation.
AUTHORS:
Andrii Osavoliuk (Open Dialog Foundation)
Palina Brodik, Maria Lysenko (Centre for Civil Liberties, Euromaidan SOS)
EDITORS:
Maria Tomak, Olexandra Matviychuk (Centre for Civil Liberties, Euromaidan SOS),
Lyudmyla Kozlovska, Igor Savchenko (Open Dialog Foundation)
PROOFREADERS:
Galyna Valchyshyn, Christina Padinker
DESIGN AND LAYOUT:
Mykhailo Fedyshak
‘Euromaidan SOS’ — a self-organised initiative, the aim of which is to gather information about the
missing, murdered, detained and persecuted participants of Euromaidan in Kyiv and the regions in order
to further assist in the provision of legal and other assistance to these individuals. Currently, the initiative
is engaged in documenting human rights violations in order to protect persecuted people in temporarily
occupied Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
The Open Dialog Foundation — human rights organisation, whose statutory objectives include protection
of human rights, democracy and rule of law in the post-Soviet area. Particular attention of the Foundation
is focused on the largest CIS countries: Kazakhstan Russia and Ukraine.
The Foundation pursues its goals through the organisation of observation missions, including election
observation and monitoring of the human rights situation in the CIS countries. Based on these activities,
the Foundation creates its reports and distributes them among the institutions of the EU, the OSCE
and other international organisations, foreign ministries and parliaments of EU countries, analytical
centres and media.
In addition to observational and analytical activities, the Foundation is actively engaged in cooperation
with members of parliaments involved in foreign affairs, human rights and relationships with the CIS
countries, in order to support the process of democratisation and liberalisation of internal policies in the
post-Soviet area. Significant areas of the Foundation’s activities also include support programmes for
political prisoners and refugees.
The campaign ‘LetMyPeopleGo’ was launched by ‘Euromaidan SOS’ for the protection of all Ukrainian
citizens, incarcerated for political reasons in Russia and occupied Crimea. The aims of the campaign
are to bring about the release of all those on the list ‘LetMyPeopleGo’ and to monitor the observance of
their fundamental rights, including freedom from torture, the right to free access to a defender, the right
to medical assistance and others. The campaign is supported by a significant number of organisations
in Ukraine and abroad: the Centre for Civil Liberties, the Open Dialog Foundation, People in Need,
Euromaidan Press, Euromaidan Warsaw, Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Kharkov Human Rights
Group and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine as well as Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for
Human Rights. Presently, the campaign is working on 13 cases of prisoners in Russia and 8 prisoners in
occupied Crimea.
The Centre for Civil Liberties (CCL) was established in 2007 for the purpose of promoting human rights
and respect for human dignity in Ukraine and independent states formed after the collapse of the USSR.
The CCL monitors and analyses legislation, verifying its compliance with human rights standards, carries
out public control over the actions of law enforcement agencies, courts and local authorities, supervises
the investigation of crimes committed during Euromaidan and documents political persecution in the
temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as human rights violations and war crimes in the Donbass.
KYIV , JANUARY — 2016