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The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.

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Russia sentences abducted and tortured Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant engineer to 18 years on grotesque charges

28.03.2025
Ukrainian engineer Serhiy Potynh is the latest of many employees of the plant abducted, tortured and then ‘tried’ on preposterous charges aimed at accusing Ukrainians of Russia’s terrorism

Russia’s ‘Azov trial’ – one Ukrainian POW tortured to death, 23 given monstrous sentences

27.03.2025
One of Russia’s most cynical ‘trials’ has ended with 23 men and women sentenced to huge terms of imprisonment on insane ‘terrorism’ charges for serving, some way back, in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Azov Regiment

Halyna Dovhopola turns 70, imprisoned in Russia for remaining true to Ukraine in occupied Crimea

27.03.2025
It is very likely that Russia’s FSB came for Halyna because she had never concealed her opposition to Russia’s invasion of Crimea

Russia’s most savage sentence yet against 66-year-old Ukrainian woman from occupied Crimea

26.03.2025
The indictment seems copied verbatim from other such fabricated ‘trials’ of Ukrainians, but this time Russia is planning to imprison Nina Tymoshenko until she is 82

Russia’s enforced disappearances of Ukrainian civilians are crimes against humanity – UN Commission

25.03.2025
These must not simply be harrowing details of Russian crimes, with the UN Commission stressing that judicial and non-judicial accountability are vital for ensuring sustainable peace.

Putin gives Ukrainians on Ukrainian territory until 10 September to get Russian citizenship or face deportation

24.03.2025
This is part of very aggressive measures by the invading power to either foist Russian citizenship on Ukrainians living in occupied Ukraine, or force them out, with Moscow clearly bringing Russians in as part of its attempts to destroy Ukrainian identity

Russians take away elderly Crimean Tatar veteran’s trailer where he lived after they demolished his home

24.03.2025
Russia’s action in razing Rustem Useinov’s home to the ground was described in 2021 as a war crime. Now the same occupiers have taken away the 70-year-old’s trailer, his medicines and other items

Ukrainian POWs on surreal ‘trial’ expose Russia’s terrorism, its bombing of a children’s hospital and other war crimes

21.03.2025
Sentences of up to 22 years are guaranteed from politically compliant ‘judges’, but the Ukrainians demolished all of Russia’s lies about their ‘trial’ and about its war crimes against Ukrainian civilians

Russia passes horrific sentence against young Ukrainian patriot after years of savage torture

20.03.2025
Hryhory Sinchenko will be turning 34 on 11 May 2025 in a Russian prison. He has endured years of torture because of his sense of justice and opposition to Russia’s occupation of his native Donetsk oblast

Russians abduct and torture father and teenage son from occupied Luhansk oblast

19.03.2025
The Russians abducted Artem Kudzhanov when he was just 19 and had held him for over a year, before his family even learned that he was alive. By then the Russians had also seized Artem’s father, Ibragim Kudzhanov

Publications

‘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”.

With a bag over my head, I was taken to a torture chamber in Donetsk

13.01.2025
Liudmyla Huseinova spent three years in Russian captivity. Unbearable conditions of detention, being placed in a “glass”, being summoned for the “entertainment” of Russian soldiers — the story of a prisoner of the Kremlin is in our article.

Our Super Mario — a Spanish volunteer in Russian captivity

08.01.2025
Spanish citizen Mariano Garcia Calatayud has been in Russian captivity for over two years. He was tortured with electric shocks, his teeth were knocked out, and a dog was set on him. The volunteer’s common-law wife, Maryna Tetiana Oleksandrivna, talks about his love for Ukraine, struggle, and captivity.