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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Worse than North Korea and plummeting. Russia hits new depths in Crimea, other occupied parts of Ukraine

Russia is quite openly using terror and repression in occupied Crimea to silence all voices of dissent and of Ukrainian identity with it likely that the situation is at least as bad on other occupied territory


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Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured to death in Russian captivity

Bohdan Usenko and Andriy Zdorenko were taken prisoner while defending Mariupol and died in Russian prisons, almost certainly because of the torture to which they were subjected

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Russia’s terror by family: father and son get huge sentences on fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur’ charges

The FSB have been fabricating 'saboteur' charges on occupied territory since soon after Russia's invasion of Crimea, with these 'trials' of Volodymyr Perzhynsky and his son Mark very likely from the same genre

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‘Guilty of not betraying Ukraine’. Russia’s supreme court imposes 13-year sentence against Oksana Hladkykh

"She was not afraid to tell the invaders to their face what she thought of them. Her abduction was a warning to us all – so that we would be afraid to say a word against Russia.”

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia ‘arrests’ Crimean mother of two 15 months after abducting and hiding her

News of the charges against Sakha Manhubi coincided with yet another massive sentence against Yevhen Hudenkov who was held incommunicado and probably tortured for almost the same amount of time

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Young Crimean deported from Kazakhstan to face huge sentence in Russia for donating money to Ukraine

All such arrests and huge sentences against Ukrainians for supporting their own country are shocking, but here there is also the chilling level of collaboration between Russia and Kazakhstan

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Russia sentences son of prominent Zaporizhzhia farmer to 15 years, after abducting father & son

Although the only massive sentence yet reported was against 25-year-old Mark Perzhynsky, it may well have been his father who was targeted for his refusal to collaborate with the invaders

• 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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The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Three

During the occupation of the Kharkiv region, the Russians set up one of their torture chambers in the temporary detention facility at the Kupiansk police station. It was here that the occupiers imprisoned the director of the Lesnostenkivsky Lyceum, who categorically refused to cooperate with them. We continue the story of Larysa Fesenko, who spent 45 days in Russian captivity.

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Three years in a penal isolator

That's how much time the Kremlin prisoner and Euromaidan activist Volodymyr Yakymenko spent in a detention center over the past eight and a half years of captivity. At the end of November, he was returned to a detention center for another 5 months.

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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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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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