On June 30, the Lev Kopelev Forum, founded in Cologne, Germany, announced three laureates of the “For Freedom and Human Rights” award, bestowed annually since 2001.

Russia is deporting children without making any real effort to find out if the children have families, and is almost openly seeking to forcibly turn them into ‘Russian citizens’

After virtually razing Mariupol and other cities in occupied Donbas to the ground, Russia is escalating terror and threats of deportation to try to force surviving residents to accept Russian citizenship

All those involved in the prosecution of Iryna Danilovich knew that they were taking part in reprisals against a person for her courage and refusal to be silenced in the face of mounting repression

Mykyta Shkriabin, a third-year law university student, has not been seen since he was seized by Russian soldiers in Kharkiv oblast on 29 March 2022

Even when faced with real acts of sabotage on railway tracks deployed in Moscow’s war against Ukraine, the Russian FSB prefer to extract fake 'confessions' through torture, than actually investigate

The figure provided in a new UN report is, unfortunately, likely to be much higher, both because of areas still under occupation, and because the Russians also carried out on-the-spot summary executions

On 26 June 1987, the UN Convention Against Torture (and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment) came into effect. At present, 173 States, including Ukraine and Russia, have signed and ratified the Convention.

While the rest of Ukraine celebrated Crimean Tatar National Flag Day, the Russian occupation regime came up with preposterous charges against two Crimean Tatars simply for flying the flag on their cars

Almost five years after a horrific acid attack on Kateryna Handziuk, a first-instance court in Kyiv has sentenced Vladyslav Manher to 10 years on a charge of commissioning the crime

There are serious discrepancies in Russia’s claim that 16-year-old Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov were killed ‘in a shootout’

Yet another ‘trial’ with predetermined outcome has begun with five Ukrainians accused by the Russian aggressor state of ‘international terrorism’ and facing sentences of up to life imprisonment

A Russian court has sentenced former Ukrainian soldier Denys Muryha to 16 years’ imprisonment on extraordinarily cynical charges

Emir-Usein Kuku, a recognized prisoner of conscience, has faced serious kidney problems since an attempted Russian abduction turned into ‘arrest’ after a crowd thwarted the FSB’s plans

Emir-Usein Kuku, a recognized prisoner of conscience, has faced serious kidney problems since an attempted Russian abduction turned into ‘arrest’ after a crowd thwarted the FSB’s plans

The sentences were largely based on a denunciation from Oleksandr Pirogov, 8 years after he played a similar role in the trial of Oleh Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko

The ‘trial’ is underway at the court Russia uses for political trials of Ukrainian citizens of Hryhory Sinchenko who almost died from the torture he was subjected to by Russia’s proxy ‘Donetsk republic’

The ‘trial’ is underway at the court Russia uses for political trials of Ukrainian citizens of Hryhory Sinchenko who almost died from the torture he was subjected to by Russia’s proxy ‘Donetsk republic’

This is the worst sentence to date against a Crimean Tatar political prisoner and comes as Russia is increasingly releasing men convicted of real crimes, if they agree to fight in Ukraine

This is the worst sentence to date against a Crimean Tatar political prisoner and comes as Russia is increasingly releasing men convicted of real crimes, if they agree to fight in Ukraine