News

Russian court upholds abduction, savage torture and insane sentence against Melitopol volunteer Yaroslav Zhuk
29.04.2025
Russia claimed that an alleged attack on a collaborator helping the invaders constituted ‘international terrorism’ and subjected Yaroslav Zhuk to horrific torture in order to extract a ‘confession’

Putin calls murderous attack on Sumy ‘revenge’ amid massive increase in Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians
28.04.2025
While Putin focuses on the bloody attack on Palm Sunday, UN human rights monitors have recorded a terrifying escalation in such atrocities against civilians with 151 people at least killed just since the beginning of April

Even Russian prison service asks to release blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov
28.04.2025
Russia’s FSB, prosecutors and ‘judges’ were willing to sentence Sizikov to 17 years and send him to Siberia for speaking out about repression in occupied Crimea

Donbas hostages savagely tortured for ‘confessions’ in 2019 sentenced in Russia to 24 years
25.04.2025
Russia’s ‘trial’’ of Andriy Harrius, Yuriy Ivanov and Stanislav Surovtsev, who were seized and tortured by an illegal armed formation which Russia had not recognized could not be more incriminating

Russia returns body of abducted Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna with scars from torture
25.04.2025
Russia took six months to return Victoria’s body in a state making it difficult to determine the cause of death. They could not, however, conceal the evidence of torture

Huge sentences and videoed ‘repentance’ in Russia’s mounting terror in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast
24.04.2025
A Russian occupation ‘court’ has sentenced a Ukrainian woman in her fifties to 14 years’ imprisonment for supporting the military unit that her Ukrainian defender son is serving in

Russia’s selective ‘terrorism’ in war against Ukraine and in fraternizing with the Taliban
23.04.2025
Moscow’s rapprochement with the Taliban coincides with its sharp escalation in fabricated ‘terrorism’ charges against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs

Horrific sentences demanded against five Ukrainians abducted from Russian-occupied Melitopol
22.04.2025
Russia began openly abducting and torturing civilians with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and has used tortured-out ‘confessions’ to concoct extraordinarily cynical charges of ‘international terrorism’

Darya Kozyreva gets real prison term for Taras Shevchenko poem and opposition to Russia’s war against Ukraine
22.04.2025
While Putin pardons and 'honours' convicted killers and other mercenaries, the regime imprisons young people like Darya Kozyreva who refuse to remain silence about Russia's monstrous war against Ukraine and its war crimes

Russia intensifies plunder in policy to bring in Russians and eliminate Ukrainian identity in occupied Ukraine
18.04.2025
While ‘deporting’ Ukrainians and appropriating their property, Russia is planning to settle at least five million Russians in occupied Ukraine by 2030
Publications

Meeting with Representatives of Ukrainian Roma in Brussels
25.04.2025
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” continues to highlight the challenges faced by Roma communities in Ukraine. This year, with the support of IPHR is organized a meeting with Roma veterans who voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A reliable tool in the hands of human rights defenders: how the KHPG database works
23.04.2025
Convenient systematization, reliable archiving, and high speed of processing a large amount of information — all these make the database that KHPG fills during the search for missing and captured Ukrainians unique.

‘We dream of becoming unnecessary’: the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) initiative presents three-year report
26.03.2025
On March 25, 2025, the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) initiative released the results of its three years of work — nearly 85,000 documented war crimes and nine submissions to the International Criminal Court.

Press Release: International campaign for the release of captives held as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
24.02.2025
Online press conference: On the tragic anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine the UN Special Rapporteur, Nobel Peace Prize laureates and human rights groups demand to free all captives of war.

Three Years of Full-scale Russia-Ukraine war: the Kharkiv Region
24.02.2025
To date, personal data of 7,225 witnesses and victims of international crimes allegedly committed by the Russian occupiers, as well as 117 probable perpetrators of such crimes, have been recorded by our organization in the Kharkiv Region.

Europe Needs Peace, Not a New ‘Munich Agreement’
24.02.2025
Three Years Since the Beginning of Russian Aggression Against Ukraine

Statement of Ukrainian Non-Governmental Organizations on the Impossibility of Holding Democratic Elections without the Sustainable Peace
21.02.2025
Democracy in war time must be protected even more than during peace time because the cost of a mistake or loss of trust is extremely high.

Statement by human rights organizations on the application of personal sanctions against Poroshenko, Zhevago, Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov
14.02.2025
The application of sanctions to opposition politicians and businessmen is an extrajudicial political reprisal that undermines the fundamental principles of law, grossly violates the Constitution and international agreements ratified by Ukraine, poses serious threats to human rights and fundamental freedoms, and is also a usurpation of power in the state.

Prison medicine: ways to humanize it
07.02.2025
In the Kherson region, a prisoner falls under occupation and is taken to Russia, where he becomes seriously ill. The aggressor state releases him on health grounds, but at home, the native penitentiary system locks him up again, barely alive. Let’s find out what is wrong with the Ukrainian procedure for release from prison due to illness.

A janitor, a cook, an informer — who is being tried for collaborating with the enemy?
06.02.2025
And also — priests, school and hospital directors, as well as ‘judges’, ‘prosecutors’, and fighters from illegal armed groups. We have analyzed the judicial practice for you.

“People first!”campaign calls to free the captives of Russia’s invasion
29.01.2025
With President Donald Trump set to initiate some form of peace negotiations on Ukraine this year, the coalition of human rights organisations, led by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Centre For Civil Liberties (Ukraine) and Memorial (Russia) are launching the PEOPLE FIRST! campaign.

Let life conquer all things — “Animal Rescue Kharkiv”
14.01.2025
Despite the danger, they go to hot spots to save those who cannot save themselves. 500 fish from Konstiantynivka, cats, dogs, pets, and even a turtle. We talk about life at the animal shelter, the difficulties of adoption, and stories with a happy ending with Yaryna Vyntoniuk, the representative of the organization “Animal Rescue Kharkiv”.