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Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR)#

Employer of a PIC member participating in the Crimea-recognition methodology

Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR) is documented on CrimeaWatch because its executive director, Tetiana Katrychenko, serves on the Public Integrity Council (third composition) — the body whose methodology treats occupied Crimea as equivalent to Russian territory.

Why This Profile Exists#

A human rights media initiative — documenting rights violations including in occupied territories — tolerates its executive director’s participation in PIC methodology that penalizes citizens for exercising constitutional rights (freedom of movement, property ownership) on Ukrainian territory in Crimea.

Institutional Participation in the PIC#

MIHR was admitted to the assemblies forming both the third and the fourth compositions — HQCJ decisions No. 40/zp-23 of 27 July 2023 and No. 138/zp-25 of 21 July 2025, identifying it by registration code 40750793 — and delegated Tetiana Katrychenko, Daniil Popkov and Liudmyla Yankina to the third composition and Mariia Krasnenko and Oksana Mykhalevych to the fourth.

The Public Integrity Council is not a legal entity with a will of its own: it consists of twenty members placed there by civic organizations, and its Indicators of Integrity are adopted by those members. Participation in forming the Council is therefore a different and stronger relationship than employing someone who serves on it, and it is recorded here separately.

This does not allege that the Media Initiative for Human Rights has made any statement recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, and delegation is not a vote. The delegates vote on the Council’s conclusions; the organization does not. What is documented is the act of participation, established by published state acts and the Council’s own rosters, and the absence of any public objection to the methodology applied.

Nomination Record#

In the assembly that formed the Council’s fourth composition in 2025, the organization put forward 5 candidates and 2 were seated. Its nominations overlapped with those of DEJURE and ZMINA. Across the assembly as a whole, twelve organizations submitted 41 nominations covering 24 distinct people for 20 seats, and 14 of the 18 members elected were nominated by two organizations at once.

Cross-nomination is permitted by the procedure and is not in itself irregular. It is recorded here because the authority of the Council’s Indicators of Integrity rests on the breadth of the body that adopts them, and the published candidate tables are the only public measure of that breadth. See Who Vetted the Vetters for the full arithmetic.

Response and Corrections#

The Media Initiative for Human Rights may submit a response or a correction request to [email protected]. Submissions are assessed against the underlying sources. Where a statement on this page is shown to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, the profile is amended and the correction is recorded.

CrimeaWatch does not publish responses verbatim and gives no undertaking to reproduce them. What a verified response changes is the content of this profile.

Summary#

Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR) is documented on this site for its institutional tolerance of Tetiana Katrychenko’s participation in the PIC’s Crimea-recognition methodology. A human rights media initiative that documents rights violations in occupied territories has not publicly addressed its own executive director’s participation in PIC methodology that penalizes Ukrainian citizens for exercising constitutional rights, including in Crimea.

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