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Russia sentences abducted and tortured Melitopol journalists to 26 years for pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel

Russia’s standard ‘spying’ and ‘terrorism’ charges cannot conceal the fact that Denys Hlushchenko, Oleksandr Malyshev and other young Ukrainians were abducted and sentenced for reporting the truth about life under Russian occupation


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France arrests pro-Russian militant for war crimes over torture of Ukrainian hostages at Izolyatsia prison in occupied Donetsk

Ukraine will not be seeking Yevhen Brazhnikov's extradition but will provide any assistance required in a trial that is extremely welcome, if belated

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Mystery ‘treason’ charges against abducted 63-year-old Oleksandr Osadchy for supporting Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Oleksandr Osadchy's grandfather was executed during the Soviet Terror in 1937. 90 years later, the Russian occupiers seized Oleksandr, held him incommunicado for over a year and may or may not have passed a horrific 18-year 'sentence'

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Russia passes effective life sentence against 61-year-old Crimean for a video of zero interest

Despite propaganda hype, the video might just as well have been of cormorants in the Kerch Strait yet Ihor Boiko was sentenced to 18 years

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Help to #FreeIrynaHorobtsova - seized by the Russians on her birthday, sentenced to 10.5 years for Ukrainian patriotism

Iryna could have left Kherson after the Russian invasion. She stayed, helping her compatriots and openly demonstrating her opposition to the invasion, for which she is paying a huge price

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Valeriy Vakulenko sentenced to 18 years for destroying a Russian invaders' tank in March 2022

Even by Russia's very low standards, the lawlessness in this case seems quite staggering

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ECHR orders Russia to pay compensation to Crimean Tatars arrested and prosecuted for peaceful protest

Russia will doubtless flout the European Court of Human Rights ruling, but the clear articulation of its lawless repression is, nonetheless, important

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Yevhen Zakharov: ‘In no country have I seen such an awareness and vocal support for Ukraine as in Sweden’

In mid-May, the project, funded by the Swedish Institute (SI) and implemented by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in partnership with the Swedish organization Östgruppen för demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter, is coming to an end.

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‘Three and a half years of search for my Yura’

The headwoman of the village of Tavilzhanka, Svitlana Moroz, survived interrogations in a Russian torture chamber. Then the occupiers kidnapped her husband. The Moroz family’s home is still in the occupation zone. And Svitlana is looking everywhere for any trace of her Yura.

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One Out of Ten. Russians Tortured a Kherson Environmental Officer to Death

In 2022, Russian security services abducted ten civilian residents of Kherson, accusing them of preparing a terrorist attack. Nine lived to see trial.

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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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Documenting war crimes in Ukraine

The global T4P (Tribunal for Putin) initiative was created in response to Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine in February 2022. The participants of the initiative document events that have signs of crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes) in all regions of Ukraine.

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