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Halya Coynash: Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International distorted their own picture on abuses in Ukraine
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Ukraine’s SBU [Security Service] recently heeded well-deserved criticism from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and released 13 people it had been holding in a secret prison. As a result, both the SBU and Ukraine in general received a second hammering from the same NGOs.