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Crimean Tatar political prisoner with a malignant brain tumour forced to sign a fake ‘clean bill of health’

Under pressure from the FSB, Russian 'doctors' have proven willing to betray their oath and effectively ensure that Tofik Abdulgaziev dies a very painful death in a Russian prison colony


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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Polish court allows extradition of Russian archaeologist to Ukraine over crimes in occupied Crimea

While there is a long way to go, this is a hugely important precedent, one that will hopefully be noted by those involved in work on occupied territory for the aggressor state

• War crimes

Students in occupied Crimea and Russia coerced, conned and threatened into going to fight against Ukraine

Russia is enlisting educational institutions as accomplices in trying to trick or force students to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

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Russia sentences Kherson oblast woman to 10 years just after UN Commission blasts such ‘predetermined verdicts'

The ‘trial’ and sentence against Olena Nishanova were identical to those against Iryna Hedzyk, Olena Kosenko and very many others, with the UN Commission damning the brazen violation of all principles of a fair trial

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean sentenced to 18 years for a phone video of boats from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet

Russia’s FSB first hid Charaz Akimov, almost certainly torturing him to extract a ‘confession’, which was still not enough to come up with any realistic charges, despite two ‘trials’

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Russia’s highest court upholds terror against Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employees

The 'judges' chose not to ask why Serhiy Korzh and his twin brother had been abducted & held incommunicado, with Serhiy, a Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant engineer tortured into saying he had directed Ukrainian military fire on the plant

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29 civilians abducted from Kherson oblast were tortured to death or died from lack of treatment in Russian captivity

An important MIHR study has followed how Russia first used a totally unsuited checkpoint as a prison for torturing abducted hostages and then integrated it into its penal system

• Voices of war

‘You won't get out of hereʼ: the story of Konstantin Davydenkoʼs Russian captivity

Officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Konstantin Davydenko on February 11, 2018, in the temporarily occupied Simferopol, accusing him of "espionage." The man spent seven and a half years in penitentiary facilities, during which he endured physical and psychological torture. In a maximum-security penal colony, Konstantin had a stroke, and his health was severely compromised. On August 24, 2025, he was freed as part of a captive exchange.

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I repeated it like a prayer: ‘Donbas is Ukraine!’

We share the story of how Horlivka teacher Natalia Shilo was held captive and later released. In the toughest times, her natural sense of justice, anger toward the occupiers, and... a higher mathematics workbook helped her survive.

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Occupiers are blackmailing the families of prisoners of war by demanding they register Starlink terminals in their names

Coordination Headquarters warns that Russians are trying to intimidate Ukrainians whose relatives are in captivity. They aim to regain control of the illegal Starlink terminals that SpaceX recently disconnected.

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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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