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Russia readmitted to Paralympics after Heraskevych banned for remembering the Ukrainian athletes it killed

The decision to readmit Russia to any Olympic event is an outrage and profound affront to all victims of Russia’s aggression, including the slain athletes whom Vladyslav Heraskevych was punished for honouring


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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chilling denial, despite videoed evidence, of Russia’s abduction of Sevastopol IT analyst Serhiy Hrishchenkov

It will soon be ten months since 58-year-old Serhiy Hryshchenkov was abducted, with it frightening unclear why the FSB are denying their evident involvement in this

• War crimes

Ukrainian volunteer abducted in 2022 ‘found’ in Russian FSB-controlled Crimean prison

Russia is continuing to conceal the whereabouts of Hola Prystan Mayor Oleksandr Babych, volunteer Oleksandr Kostiuk and very many others with details emerging only thanks to freed prisoners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Brutal Russian roulette with the life of gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner

Results of a recent echocardiogram are alarming, yet the Russian prison authorities are doing nothing to minimise the direct danger to Amet Suleimanov’s life

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Russia brings long sentences for pro-Ukrainian social media posts to occupied Ukraine

In 2014, a person protesting against Russia’s invasion of Crimea, warned that Russian occupation meant been forced into silence. That is now tragically clear in other parts of occupied Ukraine

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Help force Russia to free abducted and tortured Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employees!

Russia’s armed occupation of the largest nuclear power station in Europe is not only a question of nuclear safety. Voices are needed to ensure that Russia ends its terror and releases Ukrainian employees held prisoner

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USA refuses to support Ukraine’s territorial integrity and a lasting peace on anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion

The UN resolution was hardly controversial. It called for the return of all civilian hostages, including children, a just and lasting peace and respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty

• Civic society

Statement on the Designation of the International Memorial Association as an ‘Undesirable Organization’

Yesterday, 17 February 2026, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, designated the International Memorial Association as an “undesirable organization.”

• Voices of war

Rescuing the living and searching for the dead

The canine unit, established long before the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, has since evolved into one of the most effective dog teams operating in wartime conditions. This article by the Kharkiv Human Rights Group examines how Antares operates, the tasks it performs, the challenges it faces, and how these dogs have become witnesses to the war.

• Voices of war

The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Four

On the night of September 7-8, 2022, in the midst of our counteroffensive in the Slobozhanshchyna region, one and a half hundred Ukrainian prisoners escaped from a torture chamber set up by the Russian occupiers in the Kupiansk police station. Among them was the director of the Lesnostinkivsky Lyceum. We are concluding the story of Larysa Fesenko, who spent 45 days behind bars.

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KHPG projects

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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Stories of Convicts. The struggle for life

The site contains stories of people sentenced to life without the right to review their sentences. The evidence of these people’s guilt is based on confessions obtained under torture, which they recanted in court. However, the defence evidence and arguments of innocence of these people were not investigated by the investigation and the court.

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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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