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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

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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• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Pensioners and mothers targeted for Russia’s ‘treason trial’ terror in occupied Ukraine

The hunger strike that Niyara Ersmambetova has been forced to declare highlights the brutality of all these sentences, including the latest against Ivan Chorny who is 72 and would be unlikely to survive 13 years’ captivity

• War crimes

Russia digs up the graves of its victims in Luhansk oblast to claim ‘evidence of Ukrainian aggression’

In at least one propaganda video, separate graves which were seen when dug to be separately buried and marked, are shown being exhumed without any dignity as though they’d been flung into the ground.

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Melitopol mother of two sentenced to 14 years for donations to help Ukraine

The Russian invaders have not only imprisoned Maryna Meshkova for seeking to help the defenders of her country, but have shattered the lives of her two children

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia extracts surreal ‘confession’ a year after abducting 59-year-old Maryna Kovalenko

No attempt to make the charges against Maryna Kovalenko even remotely plausible and it is possible that she was targeted because her son is serving in Ukraine's Armed Forces

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Russian military court upholds torture and trashes law to call defence of Ukraine ‘terrorism’

The 'court' took less than a day to rubberstamp 16-21-year sentences on insane charges against men seized while serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces Aidar Battalion

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean sentenced to 5.5 years for social media comments in support of Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Oleksandr Maliarenko is the latest in a mounting number of Ukrainians imprisoned either for writing the truth about Russia's war of aggression or for expressing support for the defenders of their own country

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Violations of Ukrainian Children’s Rights in the Context of War: A Publication by ADC Memorial Brussels and KHPG Marking dated to the June’s Child Protection Days

To mark International Children’s Day on June 1 and International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression on June 4, ADC Memorial Brussels and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group have prepared a publication on violations of the rights of Ukrainian children—victims of the aggressive war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine.

• Voices of war

“In the ‘DPR’ torture chambers, they used electric shocks and filed teeth”

Daniil Bulgakov is a programmer from Donetsk. After the city was occupied in 2014, he moved to Kharkiv to study. In 2020, Daniil returned home to care for his seriously ill grandmother. But soon, the 22-year-old student was detained by officers of the “DPR” MGB (Ministry of State Security) and accused of “spying for Ukraine.” Daniil spent three years and four months in Russian captivity, during which he was subjected to horrific torture.

• Implementation of European Law • Monitoring

The Expert Opinion (Amicus Curiae) of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in Criminal Proceedings No. 42025000000001123

The Civil Organisation "Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group" (hereinafter – the KHPG) was approached by a Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Yuliia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (hereinafter – the Applicant), with a request to examine the materials of criminal proceedings

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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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Online library of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group. Here you can read or download free books, articles and documents on basic and specific human rights issues

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Abducted Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska went on hunger strike in notorious Russian prison

Anastasia Hlukhovska is held incommunicado in the same Siberian remand prison where fellow journalist Victoria Roshchyna and Dniprorudne Mayor Yevhen Matvieiev died after being subjected to torture

Russians cause abducted Melitopol woman’s death, hold her husband incommunicado for 3 years

Russia has not admitted to holding Oleh Plachkov, although he was seized by the Russians together with his wife, Tetiana Plachkova in September 2023 and was not released after her death in captivity

Russia uses Gestapo-like torture for ‘international terrorism’ trial and massive sentences over death of a Ukrainian traitor

Volodymyr Teteriev's torturers boasted that the only difference between them and the Gestapo was in the name. The savage torture they applied was used to sentence Teteriev to life and four other Ukrainians to 17 and 18 years

Ukrainian sentenced to 16 years for resisting Russian occupation gets new sentence for ‘extremist’ tattoo

Maksym Vorobiov and Maksym Timofieiev received monstrously long sentences over rail partisan acts (which they may or may not have taken part in )

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