After the coup d'etat in 2014. the situation with respect for human rights in Ukraine has deteriorated noticeably. This conclusion was reached by the staff of the international human rights organization Amnesty International. "Critics of the government, journalists, non-profit organizations have become the objects of increasing pressure from the authorities and ultra-right groups that, under the pretext of protection from Russian aggression, have entered the path of infringement on freedom of speech and freedom of association," the report released by the organization.

Excerpts from it leads RIA Novosti. The document mentions the murders of writer Olesya Buzina and journalist Pavel Sheremet, whose investigations are being traced in one place, as well as searches in the offices of the publication "Country. ua "and media holding" Vesti ". These media occupy a critical position in relation to the current government and condemn the policy of Kiev in relation to Donbass. For this they are regularly attacked and accusations of "cooperation with the Kremlin".

The situation with human rights has deteriorated particularly sharply in the last year. "The new authorities of Ukraine demonstrate a short memory, forgetting about the slogans and promises of EuroMaidan," Denis Krivosheev, deputy regional director for Amnesty International for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said at a press conference in Moscow..

The organization was also informed that "an investigation into the alleged secret prisons of the SBU did not yield any results". Prisoners were released, but the authorities did not consider it necessary to punish someone for this blatant crime.

About the "secret prisons of the Security Service of Ukraine," as they are called by human rights activists, or departmental "temporary detention facilities," as they are called by special services, became known last year from an investigation by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Prisoners of these prisons told that prisoners are tortured there: they beat the genitals with an electric shock, break their fingers, do not provide medical assistance. Prisoners are taken from one isolator to another in order to hide them from human rights defenders.

About the fact that something went wrong after Euromaydan, not only Amnesty International employees began to guess, but also the Ukrainian activists themselves. Poet Yevgenia Bilchenko, who was an active participant in the protests on the Maidan in 2014. , publicly repented of her misconceptions and asked forgiveness from Odessa and Donbass.

In a statement on her personal website, Bilchenko wrote that the West had used the "sincere impulse" of Ukrainian people for its own purposes, which led to civil war, devastation and rampant nationalism. The country was forced to walk in a vicious circle "between fascism and liberalism", which is directed against Russia.

The poet is sure that her compatriots went to the square for the sake of freedom and protection of human rights, but as a result, Ukraine became one of the most unfree countries in the world. In the east of the country the Ukrainian army is waging war against its own people, the former activist.

"I appeal to you, Europe, do you want to be a local translator of global Americanism and expect that the same world will come to your house?" There is nothing in the velvet revolutions of the good, except the hearts of those first people who came to the square who were put on the altar of the oligarchic interests and which I can neither forget nor betray, it remains only to take the blame. Peace, forgive us. Donbass and Odessa, forgive us, we did not know what we were doing, and only with God is ignorance a mitigating circumstance, "concluded Bilchenko, whom the Ukrainian media call" the poet of the Maidan ".

Additionally, she clarified her position in an interview with RT. "In terms of results, I consider the Maidan a mistake. From the point of view of those first impulses of ordinary people who were used, I have no moral right to condemn them for these impulses. I have only the right to recognize as a mistake that we succumbed to the slogans of nationalists. Because people were in the role of sacred sacrifice, "she said..