Denys Narolsky from Crimea was already a recognized political prisoner because of his 9-year sentence for ‘desertion’. Now Russia has used its weaponization of citizenship to claim this was ‘treason’

Everything about Oleksandr Plysiuk’s arrest in March from the insane charges over a 2017 post to the ‘court trial’ seem aimed at providing a chilling warning to other Ukrainians on occupied territory

Hanna Yeltsova was only 20 when seized by the Russians who almost certainly used torture to extract a supposed 'confession' on video

Appaz Kurtamet was just 19 when first seized and almost certainly tortured by the Russian FSB before being sentenced to 7 years. Now his father has received an even longer sentence

Russia’s ‘restoration’ of Mariupol is reminiscent of the notorious Potemkin villages, with the truth sordid and very cynical

One of three Ukrainians, sentenced in supposedly separate ‘trials’, although on virtually identical charges, had probably been abducted in the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

48 teenagers facing forced ‘psychiatric treatment’ would raise questions under any circumstances, but especially given terms like ‘extremism’ from an illegal occupying force

A Ukrainian not wanting to take up arms against fellow Ukrainians is facing a potential life sentence on grotesquely cynical charges

A Ukrainian not wanting to take up arms against fellow Ukrainians is facing a potential life sentence on grotesquely cynical charges

News of another Ukrainian tortured to death in occupied Kherson oblast coincided with emerging details about Russia’s killing of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna as well as of nine Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Very small children have been dressed up in military uniforms or positioned for pro-war stunts, with the Kremlin now possibly planning to formalize such indoctrination

The move follows similar sanctions from the USA, and mounting evidence of regular use by Russia of a toxic choking agent and other horrific weapons

Last week, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, released a new report. Here, we discuss the parts that are particularly important for Ukraine.

(Update) Ukraine’s Prosecutor General has initiated a criminal investigation into the death in Russian captivity of Victoria Roshchyna, with her death classified as a war crime linked with murder

Russia’s attack on the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement was also an attack on one family, whose elderly parents have now lost all their sons, some 80 years after Stalin’s regime came for their great grandfather

While Russia’s effective information blockade means there is little information about 47-year-old Ihor Kopyl, there are all too many echoes from the charges used to imprison numerous Ukrainian political prisoners

Serhiy Parfenovych and Yury Heraschenko have become the latest in a very large number of Ukrainians imprisoned by the aggressor state for peacefully practising their faith

The slight reduction in the charges against the 26-year-old Ukrainian simply incriminates the court which clearly understood that the charges were absurd and that Iryna was telling the truth about the horrific torture she endured

51-year-old Tetiana Plachkova had, at very least, been denied proper medical care, and now Russia is claiming it does not know the whereabouts of Oleh Platchkov, a year after it abducted him from his Melitopol home