Human rights organization Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Frontline Defenders and Freedom House sent to the Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko Interior Minister Arsen Avakov a letter about the situation with the ultra-violence in Ukraine, According to Kommersant.
Human rights activists point out, the number of attacks from the far right that has increased dramatically in recent years in the country, hiding behind slogans of patriotism and traditional values.
The letter referred to such organizations as the "Right Sector" (banned in Russia), "Carpathian Sich", "C14" and "Tradition and order".
According to human rights, Only this year the indicated groups committed at least 20 "Violent attacks" in different regions of Ukraine. So, 8 March were "hard attack" activists for women's rights in Kiev, Uzhgorod and Lviv.
they noted, the police just watched the attack and did not take any measures to protect women. conversely, One participant of the march was fined for poster, who allegedly insulted the national symbols.
Told human rights activists and radicals attack on the participants of the event, on the rights of LGBT, which 10 May organized in Kiev Amnesty International .
They are also concerned about reports, that in a number of Ukrainian cities far-right activists have received the official status of the patrol.
We note with concern the tendency to a sharp increase in the number of such incidents. obviously, that this escalation has been made possible due to the inaction of the authorities. Therefore, we expect the effective investigation and bring the perpetrators to justice, said the deputy director Frontline Defenders Andrea Rocca.
The Ukrainian government newspaper confirmed the existence of such a problem, saying at the same time, which radicals Activity, going beyond the law, - single cases, which are stopped by security forces.
They noted, that the right would like to, that their activity was seen, because they operate in the mode shares. But this is not the general trend, and it has no support in society, and the, who so acts, grist mill on the aggressor, said the source publications in the Cabinet.
The Ukrainian Jewish Committee to the message of human rights be taken seriously. There believe, that letter can cause a reaction of the authorities. for example, after the publication of a letter signed by US congressmen about the facts of anti-Semitism in Ukraine, several criminal cases.
Notably, that on Wednesday the Ukrainian media reported receiving organization «C14» from the budget 440 thousand hryvnia. According to the journalists, the organization won the tender for the project "National-patriotic education - the key to the information security of the state".
