After two years of empty assurances about support for the Kremlin’s Ukrainian hostages and POWs, Ukraine’s lawmakers could be on the point of passing a bill that gives the Security Service unwarranted power to determine who counts as a hostage, while not helping any of the ever-increasing number of political prisoners held in occupied Crimea and Russia. Small wonder that relatives of the political prisoners who gathered in protest outside the Verkhovna Rada on May 13 had a toilet into which they flushed MPs’ promises of support for a proper draft law with real mechanisms for helping the hostages.
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Men with duck taped mouths with the names of political prisoners attend a performance rally "Do you remember?" with demand for EU countries to act and bring freedom for Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia, on May 10, 2019.
