Russian special services are trying to use the families of prisoners of war for criminal actions.

Yulia Koveshnikova was abducted because of her pro-Ukrainian views and her soldier husband. She was held prisoner in a pit, with her captors beating her around the head for every word she spoke in Ukrainian

Server Mustafayev “chose not to be silent” about Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea. Russia’s vengeance against him and other Crimean Solidarity journalists has been savage

Although one of countless sentences passed for supposed 'plots' thwarted by Russia's FSB, this is the first of three sentences against abducted civilians, including a 74-year-old with major health issues who cannot walk without a stick

​​​​​​​Mordovia, Grozny, and even distant Minusinsk - human rights activists have already identified 127 places of imprisonment where the Russians are holding our citizens. We talked to the director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Yevhen Zakharov, about which institutions our prisoners are held in, whether the conditions of detention are the same, and how many Ukrainians end up on trial in the Russian Federation.

It was always clear that one of the reasons why Russia pushed its citizenship on occupied territory was to enable illegal mobilization and use Ukrainians as cannon fodder for its war of aggression

In April, the UN reviewed another report from our country on the implementation of the provisions of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. We are publishing the conclusions, recommendations, and observations of the UN Committee against Torture.

Russia has been mercilessly bombing civilians in Kherson since the latter was liberated, yet claimed that Andriy Serezhenko’s alleged involvement in a legitimate attack on a Russian-installed traitor was ‘international terrorism’

This is the latest of several attacks on Lutfiye Zudiyeva and clearly aimed at silencing the courageous Crimean Solidarity coordinator, whose male colleagues have ended up receiving massive sentences for refusing to be stifled

Pavlo Zaporozhets was serving his country when abducted by the Russians, tortured and then sentenced to 12 years maximum-security imprisonment

It is extremely likely that Oksana Senedzhuk was targeted because of her pro-Ukrainian position and open opposition to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine

Russia observes no minimum age for its aggressive militarization of Ukrainian children and attempts to brainwash them into wanting to ‘defend’ the invader

Russia's use of 'terrorism' charges over an alleged plan to blow up a Russian military convoy that had no right to be on Ukrainian territory is only one of many suspicious aspects to this case

Russia is likely to stall and obstruct efforts to obtain legal redress, but the Civil Aviation Organization’s ruling is unprecedented and damning

Russia is now importing its mounting glorification of a mass murderer responsible for acts of genocide against the Crimean Tatar people, and, through Holodomor, against Ukraine

The move would be cynical and lawless, however Russia has already forcibly deported one human rights activist. They also killed recognized refugee Nabi Rahimov and then sent his wife back to Uzbekistan where she faced religious persecution

While fixation with Vladimir Putin’s role cannot diminish the guilt of others implicated in Russia’s aggression, how can justice be served by not holding him and Sergei Lavrov accountable?

Having committed international crimes through its war of aggression and atrocities against Ukraine, Russia is using abductions and torture to try to blame Ukraine for its crimes

Russia is making it harder and harder for Ukrainians to reach their homes on occupied territory, while also threatening Ukrainians who remained under Russian occupation with deportation if they do not accept Russian citizenship.

Russia used religious faith as pretext for massive sentences against Remzi Bekirov and 24 other Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists and is now weaponizing it again to make his life even more difficult in Russian prison