Russia is flouting a UN Committee against Torture order regarding its imprisonment of Amet Suleimanov and effective torture of the Crimean Tatar civic journalist imprisoned on politically motivated charges

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

For monstrous reasons, it was probably predictable that the 13-year sentence against the late Dzhemil Gafarov would be upheld, but the ‘judges’ still had the opportunity to save the life of 63-year-old Servet Gaziev, and failed to take it

It is vital, therefore, that all of those implicated in implementing effective death sentences are placed under international sanctions

Russia has already caused the deaths of two Ukrainian political prisoners, and has now flouted the United Nations Committee against Torture and begun implementing an effective death sentence against Amet Suleimanov

The Soviet regime also denied Ukrainian political prisoners medical treatment and caused their deaths, but, according to one former Soviet political prisoner, the level of lawlessness was not as bad as now

Amet Suleimanov was sentenced to 12 years effectively for reporting on Russian repression in occupied Crimea. In his case this is undoubtedly a death sentence, with the danger imminent and mounting

Russia’s application to the European Court of Human Rights may well have always been aimed at causing more delay to the important interstate case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia over the latter’s role in MH17

Almost five years after a horrific acid attack on Kateryna Handziuk, a first-instance court in Kyiv has sentenced Vladyslav Manher to 10 years on a charge of commissioning the crime

The penitentiary service may well kill Amet Suleimanov even before Russia tries to execute the next stage of this effective death sentence and send him to a Russian prison colony.

Oleksandr Medvid has been found guilty of abducting Yury Verbytsky from hospital during the Euromaidan protests, but has been freed from serving the sentence

Failure to comply will almost certainly result in the death of civic journalist Amet Suleimanov less than a month after Russia tortured Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov to death

The Russian authorities are still refusing to hand over the body of Nabi Rakhimov with the reason almost certainly because this would confirm that the FSB are lying about how and why they killed Rakhimov

60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov died in a Russian prison on 10 February 2023, almost four years after he was first arrested on fabricated charges and, in violation even of Russian law, placed in detention

The victim’s daughter believes that the sentence against Yury Rossoshansky was just, but that others were also involved in her savage murder, including a high-ranking police official

A Russian court is about to begin the ‘trial’ of Nabi Rakhimov, 13 months after the Uzbek refugee was killed by the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea

Kyiv volunteer Antonina Dembitska interviews Ukrainians, who had to flee the war, to preserve the voices of witnesses for the history and future tribunal of war criminals. Read an interview with a Kharkiv woman who was forced to flee shelling and bombing with a baby in her arms and a five-year-old daughter.

We call on the int. community & anyone who can influence and urge the aggressor state to provide the civilians with the possibility to evacuate to safer locations and to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and new human casualties in this war unleashed by Russia.

Update on the fire at the Zaporizhya Nuclear Power Plant caused by Russian shelling

If the bombing of Ukrainian cities by Russian invading forces is unprecedented, not so Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which began eight years ago