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Imprisoned Crimean Solidarity activist Tofik Abdulgaziev needs urgent operation for a malignant brain tumour

Tofik Abdulgaziev has been imprisoned since 2019 for his integrity and human rights activism, with Russia causing all of the earlier conditions which have gravely undermined his health


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Ukrainian POWs and civilians gunned down by Russian invaders near Pokrovsk

Victoria Shvaiko was gang-raped by the three Russian soldiers who had first tortured and then killed her pro-Russian husband

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Russia subjects Ukrainian political prisoner with multiple sclerosis to medical torture for serving her country

Russia has been bombing and terrorising Ukraine’s population since February 2024, yet claimed that Kateryna Kuzmenko was guilty of ‘terrorism’ for having served Ukraine as a medic in the Aidar Battalion

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Neo-Nazi sadist wanted for war crimes in Ukraine invited to give ‘lesson on courage’ to Russian children

Alexei Milchakov gave his 'lesson' just three months after fellow neo-Nazi, co-founder of Rusich and mercenary Yan Petrovsky was sentenced to life imprisonment for the war crimes which the men committed together in September 2014

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Russia sentences tortured Melitopol journalist to 15 years for pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel

This was the most chilling attack to date by the Russian invaders against Melitopol journalists and Telegram administrators, with massive sentences already passed or, unfortunately, likely in the near future.

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Russian invaders abduct 52 civilians, including children, from Sumy oblast

While Ukraine is under huge pressure to ‘hand Russia unoccupied Donbas’, the invaders are continuing to seize other territory, committing the same war crimes seen in 2022

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While others are celebrating, Ukrainian POWs are being tortured in Russian prisons

Russia's torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian hostages is unrelentingly savage, with every reason to believe that this is deliberate state policy

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Ukraine-Sweden: Upholding Human Rights for Victims of the Russian War

A year ago, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, in partnership with the Swedish organization Eastern Group for Democracy and Human Rights (Östgruppen för demokrati och mängsäkring rättigheter), began a project to assist Ukrainians who suffered from crimes committed during Russian aggression. We talked about the interim results with one of the project coordinators, Ihor Kulish.

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‘They were striking me on the head, putting a gun to the back of my head, and pretending to pull the triggerʼ

100 days in a secret prison of the Ministry of State Security of the so-called “DPR”. 13 years in a strict regime penal colony. Beatings, simulated executions, broken ribs, and a cold basement — this is the story of civilian prisoner, neurophysiologist Yuri Shapovalov, who waited until a prisoner exchange and eventually returned home.

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Not Only Dr. Evil: Medical Care behind Russian Bars

What is it like to survive in captivity, suffering from a stroke, tuberculosis, or diabetes, when instead of medical care you often receive beatings and humiliation?

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