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Imprisoned Ukrainian marine biologist charged with ‘treason’ for opposing Russia’s plans in Antarctic area

Russia is openly persecuting 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov for remaining loyal to Ukraine and for seeking to protect marine resources and diversity in the Southern Ocean. Without robust international attention, he faces a 12-20-year sentence


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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB uses propaganda and hate speech to justify its terror against Crimean Tatar women

The FSB’s press service is complicit, as are other main players, in fabricating absurd charges carrying monstrous sentences

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

Russian solider sentenced to life for gunning down an unarmed Ukrainian POW

Despite the mounting number of Russian executions of Ukrainians surrendering, this was the first such trial, with the soldier’s commander having confirmed they were instructed not to take prisoners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean mother of two abducted by the FSB and held incommunicado for over a year

No charges have been laid against Sakha Manhubi, with the FSB not even admitting that she is in their custody, with the young woman one of an ever-increasing number of women being targeted in occupied Crimea

• War crimes

Russians murder civilians waving a white flag as UN report slams mass-scale and systematic attacks as crimes against humanity

Russia uses the same methods over a vast area, with it clear that civilians are deliberately targeted, in the hope of driving Ukrainians from their territory

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

13-year sentence on ‘treason’ charges for pro-Ukrainian graffiti in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ksenia Svietlishyna was hunted by the notorious Crimean SMERSH for her pro-Ukrainian messages. There are very serious grounds for doubting the other charges used as excuse for this appalling judicial travesty

• War crimes

Uncle Vanya, Bison, San Sanych — who tortures Ukrainian prisoners of war?

Ukrainians returning from captivity will undoubtedly never forget those who turned their lives in imprisonment into hell. Everything is known about some of the torturers. Others hide behind a call sign. After a “working day,” these “San Sanych”-es wash the blood off their hands and go home to hug their wives and children.

• Voices of war

‘I’m afraid I’ll be kidnapped and taken to Russia’

Obtaining political asylum in Ukraine for someone with Russian citizenship isn’t easy, even if they defend Ukrainian interests and could face imprisonment on terrorism charges in Russia.

• Civic society

Trust and Strategic Communication in Times of Crisis

These words are not abstract for us — they are part of our everyday survival and work.

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Dissident movement in Ukraine. Virtual museum

KHPG has been researching the history of the human rights movement in Ukraine for over 30 years. In particular, it has prepared about 350 biographies of the movement participants, conducted more than 200 interviews with them and published their works.

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Online Library

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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