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Russia sentences abducted and tortured Melitopol journalists to 26 years for pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel

Russia’s standard ‘spying’ and ‘terrorism’ charges cannot conceal the fact that Denys Hlushchenko, Oleksandr Malyshev and other young Ukrainians were abducted and sentenced for reporting the truth about life under Russian occupation


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Massive sentences against Yalta couple two years after Krystyna Markova was abducted by the FSB and vanished

Any 'trial' would be illegal, but in this case, it is also likely that the two were held incommunicado, without access to a lawyer and without charges being laid, for eight months

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Russia sentences Ukrainian military pensioner to 18 years after itself admitting there were no grounds to imprison him

Victor Kuzmenko was seized for a second time when merely trying to rejoin his family after the Russians came for him in Mariupol and held him prisoner for 18 months

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Death sentence without witnesses in Russia’s latest conveyor-belt trial of Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Not only were the sentences particularly brutal, but they were handed down without warning, thus making it impossible for family and human rights activists to attend or, at least, stand outside in solidarity

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Russia stages third ‘trial’ of Ukrainian POW, adds 2 years to illegal 18-year sentence for comments about Russian war crimes

Anton Saikhiev has been imprisoned since May 2022, with Russia meting out particularly savage reprisals against defenders of Mariupol

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Ukrainian sentenced to five years for writing that Russian-occupied territory is part of Ukraine

Volodymyr Dobriyan is one of an ever-increasing number of Ukrainians sentenced to real terms of imprisonment for expressing opposition to Russia's aggression against Ukraine

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Russia passes life sentence on ‘treason’ charges against Ukrainian accused of acts of resistance

Even if Oleksandr Skrabunov did have anything to do with the killing of a representative of the occupying power, the latter was a legitimate target and this had nothing to do with 'terrorism' or 'treason'

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Yevhen Zakharov: ‘In no country have I seen such an awareness and vocal support for Ukraine as in Sweden’

In mid-May, the project, funded by the Swedish Institute (SI) and implemented by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in partnership with the Swedish organization Östgruppen för demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter, is coming to an end.

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‘Three and a half years of search for my Yura’

The headwoman of the village of Tavilzhanka, Svitlana Moroz, survived interrogations in a Russian torture chamber. Then the occupiers kidnapped her husband. The Moroz family’s home is still in the occupation zone. And Svitlana is looking everywhere for any trace of her Yura.

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One Out of Ten. Russians Tortured a Kherson Environmental Officer to Death

In 2022, Russian security services abducted ten civilian residents of Kherson, accusing them of preparing a terrorist attack. Nine lived to see trial.

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Dissident movement in Ukraine. Virtual museum

KHPG has been researching the history of the human rights movement in Ukraine for over 30 years. In particular, it has prepared about 350 biographies of the movement participants, conducted more than 200 interviews with them and published their works.

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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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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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