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Russia tortures two young Melitopol schoolboys to death, passes long sentences against three other lads

It is near certain that all five lads, aged 16 and 17, were tortured, with Viktor Azarovsky, Oleh Shokol and Denys Vasyliuk later subjected to a predetermined 'trial'. Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak died in Russian captivity

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian legislation used as weapon against 74-year-old historian and the truth about the Crimean Tatar Deportation

74-year-old Enver Seitmemetov was an obvious target of repression for a regime that is increasingly using propaganda, legislation and insane prosecutions to rewrite history and white out its crimes

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Russia’s FSB concocts charges two years after abducting Elvira Abliazova and holding her in total isolation

The FSB call it 'defrosting' when they finally imitate procedure after months or years of enforced disappearance

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Polish court allows extradition of Russian archaeologist to Ukraine over crimes in occupied Crimea

While there is a long way to go, this is a hugely important precedent, one that will hopefully be noted by those involved in work on occupied territory for the aggressor state

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Students in occupied Crimea and Russia coerced, conned and threatened into going to fight against Ukraine

Russia is enlisting educational institutions as accomplices in trying to trick or force students to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

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Russia sentences Kherson oblast woman to 10 years just after UN Commission blasts such ‘predetermined verdicts'

The ‘trial’ and sentence against Olena Nishanova were identical to those against Iryna Hedzyk, Olena Kosenko and very many others, with the UN Commission damning the brazen violation of all principles of a fair trial

• Voices of war

‘You won't get out of hereʼ: the story of Konstantin Davydenkoʼs Russian captivity

Officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Konstantin Davydenko on February 11, 2018, in the temporarily occupied Simferopol, accusing him of "espionage." The man spent seven and a half years in penitentiary facilities, during which he endured physical and psychological torture. In a maximum-security penal colony, Konstantin had a stroke, and his health was severely compromised. On August 24, 2025, he was freed as part of a captive exchange.

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I repeated it like a prayer: ‘Donbas is Ukraine!’

We share the story of how Horlivka teacher Natalia Shilo was held captive and later released. In the toughest times, her natural sense of justice, anger toward the occupiers, and... a higher mathematics workbook helped her survive.

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Occupiers are blackmailing the families of prisoners of war by demanding they register Starlink terminals in their names

Coordination Headquarters warns that Russians are trying to intimidate Ukrainians whose relatives are in captivity. They aim to regain control of the illegal Starlink terminals that SpaceX recently disconnected.

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The right to privacy

The site contains decisions of international judicial bodies in precedent-setting cases and analytical articles on violations of personal data protection, illegal wiretapping, defamation and other issues related to the human right to privacy.

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Documenting war crimes in Ukraine

The global T4P (Tribunal for Putin) initiative was created in response to Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine in February 2022. The participants of the initiative document events that have signs of crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes) in all regions of Ukraine.

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