The criteria for effective investigation are the following: competence, impartiality, independence, promptness and diligence. Because without following these principles and criteria, the investigation of torture will not have any results.

It's been two years since the events in the Oleksiivska correctional colony. There are a lot of questions that still need to be answered.

We have already published the views of human rights activists on the further development of penitentiary medicine in Ukraine. Today we bring to your attention an updated and supplemented vision of how this sector could be reformed.

Russian prosecutor Yevgeny Kolpikov has demanded sentences from 16 to 18.5 years against Crimean Tatar journalist Remzi Bekirov; human rights defender Riza Izetov; and three civic activists Rayim Aivazov; Farkhod Bazarov and Shaban Umerov

Russian prosecutor Yevgeny Kolpikov has demanded sentences from 16 to 18.5 years against Crimean Tatar journalist Remzi Bekirov; human rights defender Riza Izetov; and three civic activists Rayim Aivazov; Farkhod Bazarov and Shaban Umerov

Italy’s public broadcaster RaiUno has broadcast three ‘reports’ from occupied Donetsk which present a seriously biased view of the conflict in eastern Ukraine

Russia’s trial of Akhtem Chiygoz was planned as a triumphant victory over all Ukrainian resistance to its occupation of Crimea.  It went badly wrong and, instead, exposed the methods Moscow used to try to mask its land-grab

Russia’s trial of Akhtem Chiygoz was planned as a triumphant victory over all Ukrainian resistance to its occupation of Crimea.  It went badly wrong and, instead, exposed the methods Moscow used to try to mask its land-grab

Anton Krasovsky, director of broadcasting for the Russian state-funded RT channel, has used his chat show to assure Ukrainians, whom he calls ‘animals’, that Russia will invade on any sign that Ukraine is near joining NATO

At least seven Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists are imprisoned in conditions which are tantamount to torture and place their life in danger

At least seven Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists are imprisoned in conditions which are tantamount to torture and place their life in danger

The victims of anti-Roma riots in Loshchynivka and their lawyers have encountered many obstacles to justice over the last five and a half years, but the court ruling passed on 6 December 2021 is in a deeply shocking league of its own.

Olena Piekh is in urgent need of hospitalization after three and a half years of captivity and the horrific torture to which she was subjected when seized by militants from the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk people’s republic

Two members of a Kazakhstani opposition party allege that they were either attacked or threatened by people identifying themselves as from Ukraine’s Security Service on 6 January

Two members of a Kazakhstani opposition party allege that they were either attacked or threatened by people identifying themselves as from Ukraine’s Security Service on 6 January

Around six and a half thousand pieces of land in occupied Crimea could be forcibly sold in the near future, with the Ukrainian owners of most of them treated as ‘foreign nationals’ by the illegal Russian occupation regime

Around six and a half thousand pieces of land in occupied Crimea could be forcibly sold in the near future, with the Ukrainian owners of most of them treated as ‘foreign nationals’ by the illegal Russian occupation regime

The Municipal Court in Prague has sentenced 49-year-old Czech national Martin Sukup to 21 years’ imprisonment for his very active role on the side of the Russian / Russian-controlled militants in Donbas

This is the latest move in the most serious of around 20 criminal proceedings brought very publicly against the main rival to the current President Volodymyr Zelensky

There was never any possibility that Seiran Saliyev would look the other way as repression mounted in Crimea under Russian occupation, and he has paid a huge price, with a Russian court sentencing him to 16 years