The US-based Bard College has become the 35th NGO outlawed in Russia as 'undesirable', with the Prosecutor General’s Office claiming that the College “poses a threat to the Russian Federation’s constitutional order and security”.

Human rights organizations 'believe that the competition for the selection of candidates for the ECHR judge from Ukraine does not correspond to the recommendations of the PACE.'

Yevhen Stavtsev turned 35 on 2 June, his fourth birthday held hostage in the self-proclaimed and Russian-controlled ‘Donetsk people’s republic’,

The renowned Levada Centre has carried out a survey to find out whom Russians would name as the “ten most outstanding [выдающиеся) figures of all times and nations”.

The men now face deportation, although they are all citizens of the Russian Federation who would certainly face persecution and torture in Russia for their support of Ukraine

The state of medical care for convicts (especially those serving sentences of physical isolation from society) is extremely poor today.

The state of medical care for convicts (especially those serving sentences of physical isolation from society) is extremely poor today.

The reform of the SCES healthcare system failed to improve the quality of prison healthcare, which in most PIs remains unsatisfactory or outright catastrophic due to the shortage of medical personnel, equipment and medicines.

The reform of the SCES healthcare system failed to improve the quality of prison healthcare, which in most PIs remains unsatisfactory or outright catastrophic due to the shortage of medical personnel, equipment and medicines.

Despite widespread protest, Ukraine’s leaders appear determined to hand control over memorialization of Babyn Yar, site of one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust to a project financed by Russian oligarchs identified by the US for their links to Putin

59-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov has life-threatening medical conditions which probably caused the heart attack which led to his urgent hospitalization. 61-year-old Servet Gaziev was sent back to prison, suffering agonizing pain

59-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov has life-threatening medical conditions which probably caused the heart attack which led to his urgent hospitalization. 61-year-old Servet Gaziev was sent back to prison, suffering agonizing pain

The so-called ‘prosecutor general’ of the Russian proxy ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ has also boasted of extracting ‘confessions’ from abducted and tortured Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich

The authoritative Memorial Human Rights Centre has declared Vadim Bektemirov a political prisoner and stated clearly that Russia is persecuting him for his faith and for his civic position in occupied Crimea

The authoritative Memorial Human Rights Centre has declared Vadim Bektemirov a political prisoner and stated clearly that Russia is persecuting him for his faith and for his civic position in occupied Crimea

Conditions of detention in many PIs are inconsistent with international standards and constitute inhuman or degrading treatment, as recognized multiple times by the European Court of Human Rights.

Conditions of detention in many PIs are inconsistent with international standards and constitute inhuman or degrading treatment, as recognized multiple times by the European Court of Human Rights.

Vladimir Putin and Russia’s parliament have demonstrated just how critical Ukraine’s new bill is through their unhealthy reaction and almost comical attempts to conceal the real reasons for their opposition to the bill.

Almost 7 years after Russia abducted and imprisoned Valentin Vyhivsky, he has spoken openly of his despair in Russian captivity, and his certainty that he cannot endure another four years of imprisonment “in a concrete basement”

Viktor Eismont and Volodymyr Mokhon were not, however, convicted of carrying out a criminal order, although it was the sheer savagery of that Berkut attack that turned Euromaidan into a mass movement