Valery Matiushenko’s family have heard nothing from or about him since 8 October, and it appears that the Russian-controlled militants are deliberately hiding him

Edem Semedlyaev, one of the lawyers tirelessly defending victims of repression in occupied Crimea, was detained on 25 October and remains in custody on frighteningly lawless charges

Rustem Emiruseinov, Eskender Abdulganiev and Arsen Abkhairov have learned first-hand the terribly high price Russia exacts from those unwilling to look away when fellow Crimean Muslims are facing persecution

Rustem Emiruseinov, Eskender Abdulganiev and Arsen Abkhairov have learned first-hand the terribly high price Russia exacts from those unwilling to look away when fellow Crimean Muslims are facing persecution

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has sentenced 49-year-old Igor Schmidt to six years’ imprisonment for practising his faith as a Jehovah’s Witness.

It is over five years since the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DPR] seized five young lads and forced them to give videoed ‘confessions’ for DPR and Russian propaganda.

Russia’s imprisonment of Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Nariman Dzhelyal, Asan Akhtemov and his cousin Aziz seems all about revenge with this doubtless one of the reasons for isolating Asan and half-starving him

Russia has named a border patrol boat after Russian warlord Arsen Pavlov in the latest move to glorify a mercenary who boasted of committing war crimes in Donbas.

Russia has set a new shocking record in sentences demanded without any crime except civic activism, and has done so a day after a person received an absurdly low sentence for trying to set his partner alight

Draft bills now in parliament will finally provide real help and guarantees for political prisoners, POWs and civilian hostages and their families

Draft bills now in parliament will finally provide real help and guarantees for political prisoners, POWs and civilian hostages and their families

Russia’s illegal construction plans for the ancient ruins of Tauric Chersonese in occupied Crimea will cause enormous damage and are very likely to lead to Chersonese being removed from UNESCO’s World Heritage List

The European Court of Human Rights is to examine several alleged violations, including torture and discrimination, in the case of a young man arrested in August 2016 over the murder of a 8-year-old girl in Loshchynivka (Odesa oblast)

Hearings have taken place at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague over the seizure by Russia of three Ukrainian naval vessels and 24 crew members on 25 November 2018

The Russian-controlled Crimean High Court has convicted Kostiantyn Shyrinh of mystery ‘spying’ and sentenced the 61-year-old Ukrainian to 12 years in a harsh regime prison colony

Russia’s Supreme Court has refused to refer the case of Yury Dmitriev for a cassation review despite glaring procedural irregularities and violations of his right to a fair trial.

Russia’s Supreme Court has refused to refer the case of Yury Dmitriev for a cassation review despite glaring procedural irregularities and violations of his right to a fair trial.

No questions get asked about the methods used to obtain the false testimony and / or ‘confessions’ on which trials hinge. And when a victim finds the courage to retract such ‘testimony’, the FSB are free to teach him – and others – a chilling lesson.

No questions get asked about the methods used to obtain the false testimony and / or ‘confessions’ on which trials hinge. And when a victim finds the courage to retract such ‘testimony’, the FSB are free to teach him – and others – a chilling lesson.

Although a solo father with a small son, Ihor Hordiychuk saw no choice but to join Ukraine’s Armed Forces in 2015. According to his sister, Yulia, he said, if I don’t defend our country, who will?