Russia’s ‘trials’ of Ukrainians like 20-year-old Ivan Semykoz are doubtless partly aimed at instilling terror and showing that any support for Ukraine will be uncovered and punished

Religious believers like Jehovah’s Witness Vitalii Kryushenko and Seventh Day Adventist Dmytro Zelinsky did not refuse to serve their country. They were denied their right to do so through alternative, non-combat, service

The Russian invaders have brought abductions to any territory they seize, with five very young men from occupied Chornobaiivka alone having either been tortured to death or been imprisoned for years

The gratuitously violent armed raids on 11 February 2016 prompted the emergence of the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement whose members Russia has been savagely persecuting ever since

Nursultan Mussagaleyev is believed to have taken part in Russia’s ‘purges’ in Bucha and to have ordered the torture and killing of 29-year-old Ivan Fishner, who was trying to rescue friends

Roman Hryhorian is one of a mounting number of Ukrainians seized on occupied territory and charged with ‘treason’ for seeking to help Ukraine’s Armed Forces defend their country

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.

Volodymyr Ananiev, who spent years helping Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians in Crimea is now Russia’s oldest Ukrainian political prisoner and one of three victims of the latest FSB-fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur plot’

Not only is there evidence of Russian commanders ordering subordinates to not take prisoners, but there are constant calls to such war crimes from Russian public officials and propagandists

The FSB prefer to get their ‘statistics’ by fighting whole families. First they came for Emir Kurtnezirov’s severely ill father, then for him, less than two months after he married the daughter and niece of four other Crimean Tatar political prisoners

The FSB prefer to get their ‘statistics’ by fighting whole families. First they came for Emir Kurtnezirov’s severely ill father, then for him, less than two months after he married the daughter and niece of four other Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Viktor Dzytsiuk ‘turned grey’ in a week from the torture he faced in the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk people’s republic’s Izolyatsia secret prison. Over seven years later, Russia is not letting go.

Roman Schwarzman’s stark warning about Russia’s war of extermination against Ukraine came as Putin’s adviser presented a new school textbook claiming that Russia had been ‘forced’ to invade Ukraine

Larysa Havrylenko is one of a huge number of civilians abducted and tortured or otherwise forced into providing insanely implausible 'confessions' or video stunts

Update 29-year-old Ivan Zabavsky has managed to pass on a note in which he spoke of the torture he has endured during the ten months that he was illegally held in Russian captivity without any charge, before mystery 'spying' charges were laid

The aggressor state illegally occupying Melitopol, in Zaporizhzhia oblast, has yet again claimed that alleged acts of resistance were ‘terrorism’

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.

Eighty years after the Soviet regime executed Seiran Saliyev’s great grandfather for refusing to be cowered, Russia came up with chillingly similar claims against Saliev and other Crimean Solidarity journalists and activists

At least fifty hostages seized long before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine remain imprisoned in occupied Donbas, with the fate of many others unknown

The updated strategy not only treats any opposition to Russian occupation as ‘extremist’, but also makes it clear that Russia is waging its war against Ukrainian history, culture and identity