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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s attack on Crimean Solidarity extends repression to all lawyers defending political prisoners

The list of new targets, the vast majority of whom are Crimean Tatars, is huge, and includes human rights defenders, journalists and the fathers, wives or other close family members of political prisoners


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Freedom House rates Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine as less free than the most notorious dictatorships

Freedom House rates Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory as less free even than the most notorious dictatorships

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'Treason' charges against Crimean political prisoner imprisoned twice for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Since Yevhen Shved has been imprisoned since June 2023, it is likely that the new charges are over social media posts or fake testimony from other prisoners

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13-year sentence for refusing to be silent about Russia’s occupation of Kherson oblast

Serhiy Tsyhipa needs voices in his defence after being abducted, tortured and held in Russian captivity for five years for opposing Russia's full-scale invasion of his country

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Health concerns mount for 62-year-old Larysa Haidai, held incommunicado for two years while FSB fabricated charges

Larysa Haidai is one of three women abducted by the FSB in March 2024 and held in total isolation, probably to extract ‘confessions’ and come up with charges

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Russia sentences Ukrainian Serhiy Moskalenko to 25 years calling resistance to invaders ‘treason’ and ‘terrorism’

The sentences are becoming truly massive although the indictments generally differ only in the dates cited

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Young volunteer, firefighters, medics killed for trying to save the victims of Russian attacks

Russia’s repeat strikes, timed to kill those seeking to save the victims of earlier attacks, have increased sharply each year and are clearly coordinated state policy

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A civilian prisoner from Mariupol is in critical condition

He broke into Mariupol in March 2022 to save his family. The family managed to leave, but he did not. Mariupol boxing coach Dmytro Shurda has been in captivity for more than five years — despite serious diagnoses: tuberculosis, HIV, two heart attacks and a stroke.

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Crimean political prisoner Bohdan Ziza transferred to Buryatia

The illegally imprisoned Crimean artist Bohdan Ziza was transferred to Ulan-Ude, thousands of kilometers from his home, which is a gross violation of international law.

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Bedridden “Azov man” in Russia was convicted of “terrorism”

. . . For the fifth year in a row, Inna talks to her son every day, holding his photograph in front of her. She tells him about his younger brothers, asks him to hold on, and — most importantly! — survive. “Azovian” Bohdan is far away: in Russian captivity. Confined to bed after several shell shocks and severe beatings. Sentenced by a Russian court to 16 years in prison.

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The right to privacy

The site contains decisions of international judicial bodies in precedent-setting cases and analytical articles on violations of personal data protection, illegal wiretapping, defamation and other issues related to the human right to privacy.

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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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