28 Hostages of the Kremlyn

A joint report of ‘Euromaidan SOS’, the Centre for Civil Liberties and
the Open Dialog Foundation is devoted to the issue of ‘hostages of
the Kremlin’, i.e. Ukrainians, who have been incarcerated for political
reasons in Russia and temporarily occupied Crimea. The report
focuses not only on the history of the cases, but also — the key
issue — the evidence of their rigging, as well as the main and most
serious violations of the rights of detainees and convicts, in
particular, the right to freedom from torture and the right to
qualified legal representation.
This is the first comprehensive description of the case studies to have
been monitored as part of the advocacy campaign ‘LetMyPeopleGo’.
The report contains information not only about those held captive, but
also about the released Ukrainians: Yuriy Yatsenko and Bohdan
Yarychevskyi, as well as the Estonian Eston Kohver.
The report contains recommendations, addressed to the
international community, to accelerate the process of releasing the
‘hostages of the Kremlin’.