Russia has openly targeted Crimean Tatars over the last month, with the search and detention of Mustafa Mustafayev one of two occasions where delegates of the Crimean Tatar Qurultay were singled out

While Russia imposes total secrecy on such ‘trials’, there is every reason to assume that 35-year-old Stanislav Stetsenko is yet another victim of the Russian regime’s spy mania in occupied Crimea.

After being seized by the Russian FSB, savagely tortured and imprisoned for six and a half years, all Andriy Zakhtei wants is to get back to Ukraine, to his wife and their daughter

Iryna Danilovych is facing a 7-year sentence on evidently absurd charges after the FSB abducted and tortured her in occupied Crimea

Russia has carried out mass raids and searches of the office of the Memorial Society and its members, with its co-chair, Oleg Orlov facing criminal charges and a likely prison sentence for supposedly ‘discrediting the Russian armed forces’.

Russia has carried out mass raids and searches of the office of the Memorial Society and its members, with its co-chair, Oleg Orlov facing criminal charges and a likely prison sentence for supposedly ‘discrediting the Russian armed forces’.

25-year-old Iryna Navalna has been held in Russian-occupied Donetsk since September 2022, with her mother convinced that she has been targeted because she shares the same surname as Russia’s most prominent political prisoner

82 years after Adolf Hitler carried out a visit to Nazi-occupied Mariupol, Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin has also entered the city Russia gained control of after months of relentless bombing and shelling

Russian leader Vladimir Putin may not be detained in the near future, but the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant against him and Maria Lvova-Belova is no mere symbolic gesture

A military court in Khabarovsk has sentenced Russian soldier Daniil Frolkin to five and a half years’ imprisonment in a case clearly intended to deter other soldiers from admitting to war crimes in Ukraine

If Russia had real evidence of war crimes, and not ‘confessions’ extracted through torture, it would be openly holding such trials and not hiding behind its puppet ‘republics’

Russia’s notorious Southern District Military Court has passed a huge sentence against 34-year-old Ametkhan Abdulvapov on the basis solely of an innocuous conversation seven years ago and implausible ‘testimony’ of an anonymous witness.

Russia’s notorious Southern District Military Court has passed a huge sentence against 34-year-old Ametkhan Abdulvapov on the basis solely of an innocuous conversation seven years ago and implausible ‘testimony’ of an anonymous witness.

Just as in the worst years of Soviet terror, it has become dangerous to openly speak of the crimes Russia is committing in Ukraine, or even shout ‘Glory to Ukraine’.

Just as in the worst years of Soviet terror, it has become dangerous to openly speak of the crimes Russia is committing in Ukraine, or even shout ‘Glory to Ukraine’.

Moscow is intent on inculcating ‘Russian world’ ideology in occupied parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, and it needs children to receive maximum exposure to such propaganda at school

A 20-year-old woman from Russian-occupied Crimea has been fined 50 thousand roubles for posting a video with Ukraine’s national anthem on social media

Russia is flagrantly violating international law by staging the ‘trial’ and ‘sentencing’ of well-known journalist and human rights defender Makysm Butkevych and two other prisoners of war seized while carrying out their military duties

The Russians who occupied Pisky-Radkivski (Kharkiv oblast) imprisoned and tortured civilians for demonstrating a pro-Ukrainian position, while also instilling terror, with young women in danger of being abducted and raped

Russia is clearly determined to show that human rights defence in occupied Crimea is a swift and guaranteed road to prison