A regime that terrorises children with masked men brandishing machine guns has decided that the children’s mental state will be damaged by the one chance they have to see their political prisoner fathers – in court

A regime that terrorises children with masked men brandishing machine guns has decided that the children’s mental state will be damaged by the one chance they have to see their political prisoner fathers – in court

Tatyana Kuzmenko has been sentenced by a Russian court to eight years’ imprisonment on mystery ‘treason’ charges

We, the co-signatories of this letter, are writing to share with you our concerns about the ongoing reform of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).

Russia is spending vast amounts of money on propaganda and militarization in occupied Donbas, aimed at instilling it’s Russian Donbas narrative and bringing up Ukrainian children to hate Ukraine

Darya Polyudova is best known to Ukrainians because of her unwavering opposition to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and for her defence of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners held in occupied Crimea or Russia

Donbas militants have joined Russian and Belarusian state-controlled media in attempts to discredit Roman Protasevich who was seized when Belarus effectively hijacked a plane heading for Vilnius on 23 May

Teymur Abdullayev has spent 14 months in a ‘punishment cell’ almost certainly for his refusal to provide the FSB with false testimony aimed at imprisoning other Crimean Tatars who have committed no crime

The ‘verdict’ and ‘sentence’ are both meaningless as Russia banished Chubarov from his homeland within months of its invasion, and the ‘trial’ was held in absentia

This is not the first trial of pro-Russian Czech fighters and judging by the recent arrest of five other individuals on terrorist charges, is unlikely to be the last.

The FSB in Russian-occupied Crimea have announced the completion of their ‘investigative measures’ with respect to Ukrainian journalist, Vladislav Yesypenko, who was arrested on 10 March 2021

The FSB in Russian-occupied Crimea have announced the completion of their ‘investigative measures’ with respect to Ukrainian journalist, Vladislav Yesypenko, who was arrested on 10 March 2021

A crucial draft Law on Indigenous Peoples was tabled in parliament by President Volodymyr Zelensky on 18 May

Russian prison authorities are preventing Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Marchenko from regularly receiving thyroid hormone medication, needed to compensate for a removed thyroid and to prevent the cancer he once survived from returning

Tamara Rafalska received a poignant victory on 27 May when the European Court of Human Rights found that Ukraine had violated her son’s rights through the use of police torture and the failure to properly investigate this

Zekirya Muratov was arrested two months after he refused to collaborate with an FSB officer, former Ukrainian turncoat Aleksander Kompaneitsev, by providing false testimony against fellow Crimean Tatars

As well as trying to deport Sokhiba Burkhanova, Russia is refusing to return Nabi Rakhimov’s body, confirming the suspicion that the FSB tortured him to death and then staged a ‘shootout’. .

5 years after the arrest of 21-year-old Mykhailo Chebotar led to appalling anti-Roma riots in Loshchynivka (Odesa oblast), a witness has finally given testimony in court that almost certainly means the young man did not murder 8-year-old Angelina

A Russian-controlled court in Yevpatoria has convicted Alexander Dolzhenkov of ‘creating an extremist organization’ and sentenced him to a year’s imprisonment

Russian and pro-Russian propagandists are shouting ‘sabotage’ after the first attempt in Russian-occupied Sevas to show a propaganda film about the fighting in the self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ [‘LPR’] misfired