Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

The manipulative methods used to try to prove that men defending their country were ‘taking part in a terrorist organization’ are pitiful, and terrifyingly lawless

Russia’s invasion and occupation of Mariupol have brought repression, torture and a chilling resurrection of the worst Soviet practices, including denunciation by collaborators

A new law just passed has handed Russia’s FSB yet another “powerful weapon of persecution” against those who tell the truth about Russia’s war crimes and about Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation

A new law just passed has handed Russia’s FSB yet another “powerful weapon of persecution” against those who tell the truth about Russia’s war crimes and about Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation

The fact that Lenur Ibragimov may have earlier faced prosecution for peaceful civic activism, and that one of the ‘accusations’ against Vladyslav Afanasiev was of having donated to Ukraine’s Army only exacerbate concerns about such ‘trials’

Russia’s militarization of childhood on occupied territory, and militaristic formations like ‘Yunarmia’ are war crimes, with Russia now using this so-called 'Youth Army' to get new ‘cannon fodder’ for its army

All Russia's sentences against Crimean Muslims who have committed no crime are savage, but here they have brought insane 'terrorism' charges and are imposing a 17-year sentence against a man who cannot see and needs help to move around

Russia almost certainly tortured the ten Ukrainian prisoners of war before staging these latest fake ‘trials’ and sentences of up to life imprisonment

Viktor Shur is almost 68, with Russia's torture and 10 years of imprisonment having taken a terrible toll on his health

Yan Petrovsky is on trial, under the name Voislav Torden, assumed to try to avoid international sanctions, accused of five grave war crimes in occupied Luhansk oblast

37-year-old Vladyslav Bily disappeared without trace in March 2022, with Russia only admitting to holding him and coming up with 'spying' charges in September 2024

26-year-old Eldar Abduraimov had circulated a video about the ATESH partisan movement which arose in 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russian ‘judge’ Roman Saprunov could not have stated more openly that the sentences against six Crimean Tatar civic activists are predetermined, with fake evidence not a problem

Fighting against punitive psychiatry, helping distributors of the informal press, and... gardening. On the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group's birthday, its director, Yevhen Zakharov, tells us how it all began.

In February 2022 Yevhen Matveyev led unarmed residents of Dniprorudne in telling Russian invaders to keep their tanks out of his Ukrainian city. He was seized two weeks later and had not been seen since

The Russians almost tortured and starved Leonid Popov to death in 2023, and have now brought immensely cynical ‘spying charges’ against an immensely vulnerable young man in desperate need of medication and care

We strive to build a state governed by the rule of law, where corruption has no place. But we have to admit that anti-corruption agencies do not adhere to the rule of law, have inherited Soviet approaches, and imitate the fight against corruption.