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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia brings cynical new criminal charges against Crimean Tatar political prisoner with malignant brain tumour

Tofik Abdulgaziev has been charged with ‘contempt of court’ after expressing his indignation at being forced to sign a ‘clean bill of health’, a document that his brain tumour made him unable to read


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Ukrainian political prisoner tells Russian court of torture after which you’ll sign anything

Russia has unleashed terror against civilians on all occupied territory yet abducts and charges Ukrainians with ‘terrorism’ for acts of resistance against entirely legitimate targets

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Deliberately concealed mass grave of Russia’s victims found in occupied Mariupol

Not only are there no signs to indicate that this is a burial site, but construction rubble appears to have been used to try to ensure that people did not find out

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Ukraine bypassed as Russian archaeologist wanted for crimes in occupied Crimea freed in 'Poland - Belarus' exchange

It is truly wonderful that Andrzej Poczobut has been freed, but frustrating that Ukraine was not told about a ‘deal’ seemingly involving the US administration, as well as Moscow

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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

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean pensioner sentenced to six years for social media comments against Russian aggression

The comment might rile the Russian regime, but Serhiy Obushny wanted Ukrainian drones to hit a military target unlike Russian drones used constantly to kill civlians

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Secret Russian court upholds ‘foreign agent’ repression against Crimean Tatar human rights defender Lutfiye Zudiyeva

Russia claimed, among other things, that Zudiyeva had received foreign money because of small amounts her husband paid into her account for daily expenses

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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.

• Voices of war

A Museum of Childhood in Unchildlike Times

We meet Valery Leiko in the apartment, which is filled to capacity with exhibits from his Museum that were salvaged after a fire. A Museum dedicated to perhaps the most peaceful topic—childhood. We discuss calligraphy lessons in bomb shelters, how toys shape a child’s future, and why some will grow up to be doctors or astronauts while others will become occupiers.

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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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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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