Independent lawyers have long been 'the enemy' of the Russian occupation regime for their determination to properly defend political prisoners and Ukrainians abducted from parts of mainland Ukraine temporarily under Russian occupation

The prosecutor has already announced that he will be appealing against the startling verdicts and sentences

The prosecutor has already announced that he will be appealing against the startling verdicts and sentences

Russia abducted school directors, threatened to take children from their parents and tried other methods of coercion, but has consistently had difficulty in foisting its propaganda on Kherson oblast schools

This is the latest in a number of attacks against courageous lawyers who are not afraid to represent Russia’s Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

There is every reason to believe that Roman Zarubaiev and Artur Nesterenko are illegally held incommunicado and deprived of independent lawyers

It was claimed that Volodymyr Maladyka, Volodymyr Sakada and Yevhen Zhukov 'had committed a grave crime against the constitutional order and the security of the state” by practising their faith

It was claimed that Volodymyr Maladyka, Volodymyr Sakada and Yevhen Zhukov 'had committed a grave crime against the constitutional order and the security of the state” by practising their faith

The Russians have fixated on the name that Iryna Navalna shares with the famous political prisoner, with this quite likely the reason for her abduction, torture and fabricated criminal charges

Russia’s persecution of Oleg Orlov is part of its attack on Memorial, an organization that played an invaluable role in speaking out against all Russia’s crimes against Ukraine and in defence of its political prisoners

Russia’s persecution of Oleg Orlov is part of its attack on Memorial, an organization that played an invaluable role in speaking out against all Russia’s crimes against Ukraine and in defence of its political prisoners

The Russian court ignored Zhuk's identification of the individual as one of his torturers, as it does the harrowing account of electric currents attached to genitals, savage beating and other torture to extract a fake 'confession'

It is a war crime to deliberately target civilians and there is every reason, including lies told by Russia’s representative at the UN, to believe that the horrific attack which killed over half of the residents of Hroza (Kharkiv oblast) was intentional

Iryna Danilovich is in urgent need of medical care and the failure to provide it is the latest crime against the nurse, civic journalist and human rights defender in revenge for her courageous position

18 months after the Nova Kakhovka journalist was abducted by its solders, Russia has claimed that he turned up in occupied Simferopol to ‘confess to spying’ for his own country in his own country

18 months after the Nova Kakhovka journalist was abducted by its solders, Russia has claimed that he turned up in occupied Simferopol to ‘confess to spying’ for his own country in his own country

Russia has long tried to indoctrinate children in occupied Crimea into wanting to ‘defend Russia’ and is now using similar measures on other occupied Ukrainian territory

In 2022, Russia launched its largest disinformation campaign about chemical and biological weapons, with its origins in Soviet newspaper propaganda. Fake experts and “fact laundering” techniques are used to spread the lies, and Russians have made several “documentaries” about mythical US labs.

Ukrainians living in parts of Donbas seized by the Russians in 2022 are facing another hellish winter with the aggressor state openly saying ‘there’s no point’ in rebuilding many of the cities it destroyed

Over half of the residents of Hroza in Kharkiv oblast were killed in a Russian missile strike on a funeral wake, while the Russians also bombed the latest of well over a thousand Ukrainian hospitals