The Russian FSB who abducted and tortured Iryna Danilovych in April this year see no need to deny that the charges used to imprison the Crimean civic journalist, nurse and rights defender are fabricated. Quite the contrary

Hardly any anti-war protest takes place in Russia today without harassment or prosecution by the country’s law-enforcement agencies. Protestors are fined under Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code; they are charged under Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code (up to 15 years imprisonment); or they may be sent, like Maria Ponomarenko of Barnaul (south Siberia), for psychiatric assessment.

Incidents in Kharkiv and the Kharkiv region recorded by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group during the first 150 days of the full-scale Russia-Ukraine war (February 24 – July 23, 2022).

Russia is speeding up attempts to impose ‘education’ according to a Russian curriculum and Russian narrative about its war against Ukraine by 1 September

Russia is speeding up attempts to impose ‘education’ according to a Russian curriculum and Russian narrative about its war against Ukraine by 1 September

Russia us now using the notorious ‘Wagner’ private military company to go around prison colonies and recruit prisoners, including those convicted of murder or other violent crimes, to kill Ukrainians for Russia.

One can be arrested for saying “No to the War'' or “Peace will triumph!” in Russia. Even the words “special operation” in inverted commas is a crime.

Russia is ploughing ahead with grotesque plans to stage pseudo ‘referendums’ in the parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts currently under the control of the Russian military

The internationally condemned ‘trial’ of Nariman Dzhelyal, renowned human rights defender, journalist and Deputy Chair of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, is drawing to its almost certainly predetermined conclusion

After causing massive destruction to Mariupol, Russia, via its puppet ‘Donetsk republic’, is now allocating remaining accommodation to those who collaborate and denying others their property rights

Viktor Maruniak, Village Head of Stara Zubrivka in Kherson oblast was tortured for three weeks, with the torture something that the Russian invaders seemed to “somehow get pleasure from”

Russia is killing and maiming Ukrainian children each day, as well as committing horrific crimes against them

A court in Russia has sentenced Azamat Eyupov to 17 years in the harshest of Russian prisons, without any crime and in the full knowledge that this is an effective death sentence.

A court in Russia has sentenced Azamat Eyupov to 17 years in the harshest of Russian prisons, without any crime and in the full knowledge that this is an effective death sentence.

The abductions come just days after the head of Enerhoatom warned that the Russians are cynically using the largest nuclear power plant in Europe for storing weapons and for launching missiles used to shell Nikopol and other targets. (Updated)

The Kremlin’s chief propaganda mouthpiece, Margarita Simonyan, has openly proposed using plundered Ukrainian harvest as a weapon, ‘sharing’ what it has stolen only with those countries that “behave properly”.

A major event of the past week was the Moscow trial of Alexei Gorinov. Accused of circulating “fake news” about the Russian military, he was sentenced on 8 July to seven years imprisonment.

Speech by Oleksandr Cherkasov, chairman of the board of the Memorial Human Rights Center, at a conference organized by the Committee of Mathematicians and Memorial in support of Azat Miftakhov.

Asan Akhtemov has told a Russian occupation court about the torture used to force him to give false testimony against himself, his cousin Aziz, and Nariman Dzhelyal, journalist, human rights defender and leader of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people

Ukrainians expressing support for Ukraine and circulating accurate information about Russia’s invasion and the crimes it is committing on Ukrainian territory could be forcibly deported within 24 hours