Friday, February 17, 2017

Ukrainian librarian under Russian house arrest takes case to court of human rights

Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature / Biletsky V.S./wikipedia.org

Natalya Sharina, a Ukrainian librarian held under house arrest in Russia since October 2015, has taken her case to the European court of human rights in Strasbourg. Since her arrest in 2015, the Russian authorities have extended the order for Sharina, director of the Ukrainian Literature Library in Moscow, to be detained at home repeatedly, despite calls for her release.