Fakhod Soliev disappeared three weeks ago, is almost certain in FSB custody, yet there is nothing to suggest that any criminal investigation has been initiated

The clear message in occupied Crimea that opposition to occupation or human rights activities can get you horrific prison sentences, is now accompanied by another: kill for the Russian state, and all real crimes will be wiped clean

The clear message in occupied Crimea that opposition to occupation or human rights activities can get you horrific prison sentences, is now accompanied by another: kill for the Russian state, and all real crimes will be wiped clean

Russia’s aggressive measures to foist its citizenship in occupied Ukraine, to indoctrinate children and eliminate Ukrainian language and identity are only equalled by deliberate attempts to create "an information black hole" in occupied parts of Ukraine

Vladyslav Kryvyy is one of a huge number of Ukrainian civilian hostages almost certainly tortured into providing ‘confessions’ clearly and boringly drafted by Russia’s FSB

While Russia is clearly planning a second winter of attacks on Ukrainian critical infrastructure, its treatment of Ukrainians currently under its occupation is no less brutal

Russia has been systematically trying to destroy the Ukrainian Church, as it has all that is Ukrainian in occupied Crimea, and it is frustrating that Kyiv did so little, so late, to obstruct this

Volodymyr Vakulenko was killed because he openly opposed Russia’s occupation of his native Kharkiv oblast and helped the Ukrainian defenders. He is one of many Ukrainian writers and artists remembered in PEN Ukraine’s #EmptyChairWeek

Russia has blocked investigation of the explosion at Olenivka that killed over 50 Ukrainian POWs. Its mass ‘trials’ of Ukrainian POWs are, however, also in flagrant violation of international law and have perpetrators who should be held to answer

The artist has been imprisoned since April 2022 after replacing price tags in a supermarket with stark facts about Russia’s war against Ukraine and war crimes in Mariupol

Russia is not content with having destroyed most of Mariupol’s infrastructure, and having killed vast numbers of civilians, but is now seeking to deprive residents of those homes it did not earlier destroy

Ukrainian defender of Mariupol, Anton Cherednyk was clearly tortured into providing an insane ‘confession’ that fits Moscow’s propaganda narrative, but not the facts

The method used to concoct new criminal charges is especially cynical and dangerous, with other political prisoners also at risk

Iryna Farion and her Svoboda Party have long been notorious for controversial pronouncements or actions that do more to harm, than help Ukraine. This time, Farion’s actions have directly placed a young patriotic Ukrainian from Crimea in real danger

Yury Armash had been a military medic for several years before 2022, but what he saw and experienced after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine shocked him in its savagery

Russia is flouting international law and even its own norms, by holding 46-year-old Maksym Butkevych incommunicado and refusing to even pass on letters

25-year-old Emine Zekeryaeva could face a prison sentence for ‘failing to report’ a social media conversation she had no reason to see as ‘criminal’

The aim of these stunts is to terrorize Ukrainians on occupied territory and to try to silence any protest against Russia’s war of aggression

The men are also accused of destroying and trying to hide the weapons to prevent being identified

Bohdan Yermokhin is about to turn 18 and there are serious grounds for fearing that Russia will forcibly mobilize the young lad who has repeatedly been prevented from returning to Ukraine