Dudka, a retired naval captain and two academics Oleksiy Bessarabov and Dmytro Shtyblikov were arrested, tortured and sentenced because of their naval past and because the FSB wanted another ‘Ukrainian saboteur’ show trial

The sentence is especially chilling as Russia is presently applying the same measures to instil an entirely false version of its war of aggression against Ukraine

Ruslan Abdurakhmanov is one of an ever-increasing number of Ukrainian political prisoners whom the Russians abducted from occupied territory after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Ruslan Abdurakhmanov is one of an ever-increasing number of Ukrainian political prisoners whom the Russians abducted from occupied territory after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Three members of Andriy Babychenko’s family were convicted of ‘disobeying’ the armed and masked men who burst into their home and forced him to the ground because of pro-Ukrainian social media posts. He was convicted on another charge and may face more

The findings are damning but only highlight the need for more robust measures, including International Criminal Court proceedings now to ensure accountability for grave war crimes and perhaps crimes against humanity

Even some of those who helped invade Ukraine and who still support ‘Russian world’ ideology admit that Russia has brought only devastation and suffering to occupied Donbas

On September 27th The T4P (Tribunal for Putin) initiative presents two submissions to the International Criminal Court regarding crimes against humanity.

Occupied Crimea may, it is suggested, be Russia’s testing ground because of the large number of Crimeans opposing its invasion and annexation of the peninsula

The charges against Halyna Dovhopola remain as secret as the ‘court hearings’ behind closed doors, without an independent lawyer, but she was almost certainly targeted because of her pro-Ukrainian views

Pavlo Zaporozhets is facing a 20-year sentence or life imprisonment under Russian legislation although he is accused only of actions, carried out by a Ukrainian defender, against the Russians who had invaded and seized Kherson

The ‘trial’ and sentence against Aider Muzhdabaev over strong words on Facebook would be easier to take seriously if state-employed propagandists did not call to murder Ukrainian children and destroy Ukrainian cities on television

Russia has already killed two political prisoners and is clearly willing to cause the death of 68-year-old Khalil Mambetov; Azamat Eyupov (60) and others as part of its terrorization by quota ‘trials’

Russia has already killed two political prisoners and is clearly willing to cause the death of 68-year-old Khalil Mambetov; Azamat Eyupov (60) and others as part of its terrorization by quota ‘trials’

Relatives believe that Anastasia and Valery Saksahansky were abducted and killed because they had refused to take Russian citizenship

Russia seems to have had difficulty finding international lawyers to represent it in this case, in which its arguments concentrate on the same lies about a ‘neo-Nazi regime’ committing ‘genocide against Russian-speakers’ peddled since 2014

Moscow is still refusing to say where it is imprisoning Ihor Kolykhaev and is illegally refusing to let the Red Cross see him, very likely because of the torture he reportedly endured

Russia’s plundering of Ukrainian territory, by whatever name, has no legal standing and any such sales are legally void

Mariupol residents are desperately trying to stop Russia from demolishing what remains of their bombed apartment blocks, as what the Russians ‘rebuild’, they then ‘sell’ for profit, with such apartments “not envisaged” for their real owners.

It will soon be a year since 25 Leniye Umerova was seized by Russian border guards, and first held prisoner on entirely different administrative pretexts, before the FSB came up with absurd ‘spying’ charges