On November 5-6, with the organizational support of the Embassy, ​​a well-known Ukrainian human rights activist, Maria Tomak, coordinator of the Media Initiative for Human Rights, and relatives of Ukrainian political prisoners illegally detained by Russia ), Head of the Department of our Organization for Persons Deprived of Personal Freedom. During the visit, meetings were held at the Foreign Office, world-renowned human rights organizations Amnesty International, Article 19, Minority Rights Group International, European Human Rights Advocacy Center.

On the evening of November 5, Ukrainian human rights activists addressed a public event in the British Parliament on “human rights violations against Ukrainian political prisoners”, organized jointly by the Embassy and Euromaidan London, the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain – London Branch, and British-Ukrainian Aid, moderated by becoming a member of the ruling Conservative Party, a member of the “friendship group” with Ukraine Bob Seeley with the participation of other members of Parliament, experts, journalists, members of the diplomatic corps and the Ukrainian community.

During the meetings, the British interlocutors were informed in detail about the situation with Ukrainian Kremlin political prisoners, with special emphasis on the torture that was and continues to be committed against our compatriots behind bars, as well as those who need urgent medical care and do not receive it. Human rights activists, in particular, stressed that Ukrainian and foreign doctors had never been allowed by the Russian authorities to examine our compatriots detained in Russia and in the occupied Crimea.

In this regard, human rights activists handed over to the Foreign Office and members of the British Parliament a list prepared by them with the names of Russians and Ukrainians who violate human rights in Russia and its annexation. Crimea. Maria Tomak stressed that Ukrainian human rights activists believe that “it is possible to extend the effect of the” Magnitsky Act “adopted by the British Parliament against these people, as it is a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, namely torture.” The embassy and Ukrainian human rights activists called on British parliamentarians to hold a debate on Ukrainian prisoners of the Kremlin and Russia’s coercion and release, as well as the necessary medical care and the cessation of torture at this stage.