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Russia uses Gestapo-like torture for ‘international terrorism’ trial and massive sentences over death of a Ukrainian traitor

Volodymyr Teteriev's torturers boasted that the only difference between them and the Gestapo was in the name. The savage torture they applied was used to sentence Teteriev to life and four other Ukrainians to 17 and 18 years

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Russia ignores urgent medical condition and increases monstrous sentence against 68-year-old Halyna Bekhter for supporting Ukraine

It had seemed inappropriate to throw out unconfirmed opinions about the Ukrainian pensioner's state, however Russia's failure to react, except by increasing an already horrific sentence, leaves no choice

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Russia to indoctrinate children in occupied Ukraine with invented ‘history of Donbas & Novorossiya textbook'

Russia has added another 'textbook' to its information warfare arsenal, with this one specifically aimed at brainwashing Ukrainian children on occupied territory

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witness faces 6-year sentence on charge of ‘financing extremist activities’ for shared worship

53-year-old Volodymyr Chertov is the latest in a mounting number of believers persecuted by the Russian occupation regime for their faith

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Olha Tsyryk gets16-year sentence after blitzkrieg ‘trial’ for selfies and anti-Russian comments

No mention is made of the fact that Olha Tsyryk was abducted a year earlier and held completely incommunicado

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar political prisoner returned to die in Russian captivity is in critical condition

Russia should never have imprisoned Lenur Khalilov, but its present treatment of a man who is probably dying is especially savage

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Russia stages grotesque trial for second 29-year sentence against savagely tortured Ukrainian partisan

Three political prisoners were subjected to this immensely cynical 'trial', based solely on the secret 'testimony' of two prisoners who may well have been as brutally tortured as Hryhory Sinchenko, Volodymyr Makarenko & Dmytro Papenko

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On June 26, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Torture is one of the most widespread crimes committed during Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG), nearly everyone who comes under Russian control and has direct contact with Russian military personnel, government officials, law enforcement officers, or representatives of the occupation authorities or proxy administrations is subjected to torture or other forms of inhuman treatment.

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Violations of Ukrainian Children’s Rights in the Context of War: A Publication by ADC Memorial Brussels and KHPG Marking dated to the June’s Child Protection Days

To mark International Children’s Day on June 1 and International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression on June 4, ADC Memorial Brussels and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group have prepared a publication on violations of the rights of Ukrainian children—victims of the aggressive war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine.

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“In the ‘DPR’ torture chambers, they used electric shocks and filed teeth”

Daniil Bulgakov is a programmer from Donetsk. After the city was occupied in 2014, he moved to Kharkiv to study. In 2020, Daniil returned home to care for his seriously ill grandmother. But soon, the 22-year-old student was detained by officers of the “DPR” MGB (Ministry of State Security) and accused of “spying for Ukraine.” Daniil spent three years and four months in Russian captivity, during which he was subjected to horrific torture.

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Mariupol children brainwashed into thanking the Russian invaders for ‘saving’ them

Russia's lies and attempts to blame Ukraine for its own war crimes may be too brazen to be effective where adults are concerned. They are, however, terrifyingly effectively in the case of small children

Russia cripples tortured 23-year-old Ukrainian POW then convicts him of ‘terrorism’ for defending Ukraine

Bohdan Trofimiuk was just 19 when taken prisoner by the Russian invaders. He has been deprived since then of medical care, including for the torture which almost killed him and left him unable to walk, and has been sentenced on surreal 'terrorism' charges

17-year sentences in Russian captivity for refusing to betray Ukraine

More details have emerged of the insane 'trial' of Border Guard officers Vasyl Dmytriuk and Ivan Tereshchenko, including the fact that refusal to claim that Crimea is 'Russian' was viewed by the occupation 'court' as an aggravating circumstance

Savage sentence against Ukrainian from occupied Luhansk oblast on secret ‘spying’ charges

It seems likely that Volodymyr Lukashenko and several other Ukrainians sentenced on identical charges have been imprisoned for a long time, with charges probably laid shortly before the so-called 'trial'

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