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Savagely tortured ‘Kherson Nine’ sentenced to 155 years in grotesque Russian show trial

The Russian aggressor state, while illegally occupying Kherson, abducted the nine Ukrainians from their homes, tortured them and came up with surreal charges of ‘international terrorism’


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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

When Russia first turned its terror against children

“The real terrorists are those who burst into the homes of people peacefully sleeping, who intimidate people who tell the truth; those who have turned Crimea into a military base" - Vadym Siruk. We could add also those who so brutally end childhood

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Abducted, likely tortured and sentenced to 10 years for opposing Russian occupation of Kakhovka

Iryna Hedzyk had been held incommunicado for almost 18 months when Russia announced 'spying charges' and then, two weeks later, a 10-year sentence

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Ukrainian POWs forced to exhume the dead in Mariupol, with the Russians looting the bodies

Serhiy Hrytsiv was first forced, together with other POWs, to retrieve the bodies of civilians, including children, from buildings Russia had destroyed, and then tortured for one of the aggressor state’s grotesque show trials

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean abducted, then sentenced to 18 years after criticizing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Taras Khudak was abducted at least six months before Russia came up with suspect 'treason' charges, almost certainly aimed at terrorizing the public into silence and obedience

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Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured to death in Russian captivity

Bohdan Usenko and Andriy Zdorenko were taken prisoner while defending Mariupol and died in Russian prisons, almost certainly because of the torture to which they were subjected

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Russia’s terror by family: father and son get huge sentences on fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur’ charges

The FSB have been fabricating 'saboteur' charges on occupied territory since soon after Russia's invasion of Crimea, with these 'trials' of Volodymyr Perzhynsky and his son Mark very likely from the same genre

• Voices of war

Rescuing the living and searching for the dead

The canine unit, established long before the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, has since evolved into one of the most effective dog teams operating in wartime conditions. This article by the Kharkiv Human Rights Group examines how Antares operates, the tasks it performs, the challenges it faces, and how these dogs have become witnesses to the war.

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The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Four

On the night of September 7-8, 2022, in the midst of our counteroffensive in the Slobozhanshchyna region, one and a half hundred Ukrainian prisoners escaped from a torture chamber set up by the Russian occupiers in the Kupiansk police station. Among them was the director of the Lesnostinkivsky Lyceum. We are concluding the story of Larysa Fesenko, who spent 45 days behind bars.

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The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Three

During the occupation of the Kharkiv region, the Russians set up one of their torture chambers in the temporary detention facility at the Kupiansk police station. It was here that the occupiers imprisoned the director of the Lesnostenkivsky Lyceum, who categorically refused to cooperate with them. We continue the story of Larysa Fesenko, who spent 45 days in Russian captivity.

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