Ukraine’s Maidan Victims Still Await Justice

Expand A man lays flowers to the memorial of dead Maidan activists during the anniversary in Kyiv © Pavlo Gonchar (Sipa via AP Images) A lawyer who represents families of activists killed during Maidan protests in Kyiv in the winter of 2013 to 2014 has gone on a hunger strike. Evgeniya Zakrevskaya is protesting what many Ukrainian activists fear may be a collapse of investigations into Maidan-related abuses. Six years ago, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine following the government’s unexpected decision, announced on November 21, 2013, to suspend…

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