Russia is continuing to extract fictitious 'confessions' through abductions with police or FSB victims held incommunicado, with every reason to fear for their lives

On February 22, 2022, International Memorial was dissolved by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. But, as we see, Memorial cannot be “dissolved”, just as a human being cannot be deprived of their innate ability to keep memories and reflect.

That justice could not be expected was clear from the day Russia launched its worst attack on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement to date, arresting 25 civic journalists and activists

That justice could not be expected was clear from the day Russia launched its worst attack on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement to date, arresting 25 civic journalists and activists

Russia’s ‘legalization’ of forced deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory on 18 May is only the latest step in policy that was clearly planned from the beginning, a report has demonstrated ‘

The award of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize has been wrongly perceived by many in Ukraine, he says. He explains who in Ukraine is eligible to receive a part of the prize money awarded to the International Memorial Society.

A Russian court has passed huge sentences against three Crimean Muslims on essentially ‘thought crime’ charges, with the longest sentence against a man who is blind and could not have read the books which the FSB planted in his home as ‘evidence’.

A Russian court has passed huge sentences against three Crimean Muslims on essentially ‘thought crime’ charges, with the longest sentence against a man who is blind and could not have read the books which the FSB planted in his home as ‘evidence’.

Iryna Danilovich is in constant agonizing pain which the occupation prison authorities have been ignoring for over seven months

Moscow is repeating policy used under Stalin to destroy the Ukrainian identity of areas currently under occupation and to deport those who refuse to be ‘Russified’

Ukrainian volunteer Yuriy Kayov was tortured in Russian captivity for two months, during part of which time a young child was also imprisoned and taken to the torture room

There seems every reason to assume that the new torment is also part of Moscow’s revenge against a man whose courage and moral fibre it cannot understand or break

The effective deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory is being used to mask Russia’s movement of personnel and hardware and to hide its war crimes

The Russian occupation regime has called its forced seizure and looting of the central body of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea “liberation”

The Russian occupation regime has called its forced seizure and looting of the central body of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea “liberation”

In a Russian political trial the court looks the other way even when the FSB’s ‘secret witness’ proves incapable of recognizing the defendant

In a Russian political trial the court looks the other way even when the FSB’s ‘secret witness’ proves incapable of recognizing the defendant

By destroying the leading organization monitoring religious liberty violations, the Putin regime can no longer pretend that relics of freedom of religion remain in Russia.

This is the second time that Illya Yenin has been abducted by the Russians and there are strong grounds for fearing that torture is being used to extract some kind of surreal 'confession'

Russia’s FSB have concocted absurd ‘treason through spying’ charges against 25-year-old Leniye Umerova, five months after she was first detained while trying to visit her father, who is suffering from cancer