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Sinister secrecy over Russia’s abduction, torture and imprisonment of Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska

Russia has held Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska incommunicado, without any charges being laid for well over two years. It is chillingly unclear why they appear to be hiding her


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Install MAX, Russia’s big brother surveillance app or face repression in occupied Ukraine

An IT specialist earlier called the installation of Russia's MAX messenger app "equivalent to voluntarily passing your telephone into the total control of the security service”. On occupied territory, it's anything but voluntary

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57-year-old midwife sentenced to 11 years in ongoing Russian terror against residents of occupied Enerhodar

Larysa Malovychko has already been in Russian captivity for over two years, with it likely that she was seized because of her pro-Ukrainian position

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Ukrainians who fail ‘filtration’ interrogation held prisoner in Russian ‘refugee’ point until FSB fabricates charges

Russia’s ‘filtration’, aimed at ferreting out those seen as too ‘pro-Ukrainian’ is already profoundly illegal, with the details of how criminal charges are concocted, positively terrifying

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Ukraine charges four Russian commanders over deadly missile strike on Kryvyi Rih playground

Nine children, the youngest just three, were killed in a missile strike that had no possible military target

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Russia churns out mass sentences for ‘spying’, with only the part of occupied Ukraine varying

The following were just those sentences on one day in November where the names of Russia's victims are known

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‘War tourism’ plans for Mariupol and other cities Russia first mercilessly bombed

Although hampered by Russia’s destruction and ongoing fighting, such ‘tourism’ would be based on the fakes, false narrative and aggressive propaganda which Russia has been pushing since 2014

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Music in Captivity: The Marine Corps Orchestra Conductor’s Story

Serhiy Smirnov is a military conductor who has led the orchestra of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade for nearly a decade. From April 2022 to September 2024, he was held in captivity alongside his comrades. One of them was tortured to death by Russian forces, and five of his musicians remain in captivity.

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The Court of Appeal frees Viktor Sleptsov: a decision that should have been made immediately

The Vinnytsia Oblast Court of Appeal, presided over by Judge Serhiy Medvetskyi, ruled to release Viktor Sleptsov—a 68-year-old lifer with stage IV cancer.

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Civic Responsibility as the Only Way to Overcome Total Unfreedom

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yuly Daniel, a distinguished translator, poet, prose writer, defendant in the most high-profile political trial of the 1960s, and political prisoner.

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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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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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