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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


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Russia sentences Luhansk woman to 16 years for sheltering two defenders of Ukraine

The aggressor state claimed claiming Yulia Mosiak, a Ukrainian citizen, “decided to commit treason” (under Russian legislation!) by protecting the Ukrainian defenders of her own country

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB carry out armed 'inspection' of Crimean Tatar journalist's home, take her away for interrogation

This act of intimidation was one of the increasingly aggressive methods that Russia has used against journalists and civic activists in occupied Crimea

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Russia’s ‘Dr Evil’ charged over savage torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war

Russia has systematically tortured Ukrainian POWs in most places of imprisonment. In Mordovian Prison Colony No. 10, however, the most notorious torturer was a medical worker

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Install MAX, Russia’s big brother surveillance app or face repression in occupied Ukraine

An IT specialist earlier called the installation of Russia's MAX messenger app "equivalent to voluntarily passing your telephone into the total control of the security service”. On occupied territory, it's anything but voluntary

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57-year-old midwife sentenced to 11 years in ongoing Russian terror against residents of occupied Enerhodar

Larysa Malovychko has already been in Russian captivity for over two years, with it likely that she was seized because of her pro-Ukrainian position

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Ukrainians who fail ‘filtration’ interrogation held prisoner in Russian ‘refugee’ point until FSB fabricates charges

Russia’s ‘filtration’, aimed at ferreting out those seen as too ‘pro-Ukrainian’ is already profoundly illegal, with the details of how criminal charges are concocted, positively terrifying

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Music in Captivity: The Marine Corps Orchestra Conductor’s Story

Serhiy Smirnov is a military conductor who has led the orchestra of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade for nearly a decade. From April 2022 to September 2024, he was held in captivity alongside his comrades. One of them was tortured to death by Russian forces, and five of his musicians remain in captivity.

• Penal institutions

The Court of Appeal frees Viktor Sleptsov: a decision that should have been made immediately

The Vinnytsia Oblast Court of Appeal, presided over by Judge Serhiy Medvetskyi, ruled to release Viktor Sleptsov—a 68-year-old lifer with stage IV cancer.

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Civic Responsibility as the Only Way to Overcome Total Unfreedom

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yuly Daniel, a distinguished translator, poet, prose writer, defendant in the most high-profile political trial of the 1960s, and political prisoner.

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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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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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