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10 months of torture in Donetsk secret prison for supporting Ukraine
06.05.2020
The Russian-controlled militants in Donbas are refusing to release 55-year-old Valery Matyushenko who almost certainly needs medical care after 10 months “being savagely and inhumanly tortured” in the notorious Izolyatsia secret prison in Donetsk
Defender of Ukraine seized and tortured for Russian and Donbas militant propaganda
30.04.2020
Ihor Myronchuk was taken prisoner in February 2019, and clearly tortured into repeating Moscow’s line about the war for the Russian and Russian-controlled militant propaganda media.
Donbas militants refuse to release Ukrainian imprisoned since 2016 as a ‘child saboteur’
28.04.2020
21-year-old Bohdan Kovalchuk has been imprisoned in the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DPR] since he was 17 and seized together with lads even younger and forced to give videoed ‘confessions’ of having carried out tasks for Ukraine’s SBU
Prisoner exchange leaves most Donbas hostages in captivity and makes journalists suspicious
21.04.2020
None of the exchanges has ever come close to fulfilling the Minsk Agreement demand for a release of “all for all” but this latest exchange was particularly worrying
Suspected Maidan killer released, as notorious judge places activist & ex-MP under house arrest
17.04.2020
A judge who gained notoriety under President Viktor Yanukovych for his role in political persecution has placed ex-MP, investigative journalist and Maidan activist Tetyana Chornovol under 24-hour house arrest
Desperate plea to Zelensky from relatives of hostages once again forgotten
16.04.2020
A long-promised exchange is about to take place on a much smaller scale than hoped for, and with none of the prisoners identified by former hostages like Stanislav Aseyev included
Russian repression continues despite Covid-19, with new ’Ukrainian saboteur’ arrests in occupied Crimea
16.04.2020
A raging pandemic is no obstacle for Russia’s FSB which has made new arrests in occupied Crimea with this ‘Ukrainian saboteur / spy’ storyline ominously similar to those used in previous politically-motivated prosecutions.
Potemkin anti-Covid19 measures to imprison pro-Ukraine activist whom Russia accuses of ‘treason’
15.04.2020
Ivan Yatskin, a Ukrainian from Crimea whom Russia has charged with ‘treason’, is to remain imprisoned in Moscow despite medical conditions which put him in particular danger if infected by Covid-19
Russian proxy Donbas republic sentences charity worker with HIV to 11 years
10.04.2020
Natalya Zelenina has been imprisoned in the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DPR] since November 2017, although her potentially life-threatening plight has only recently been made public
Ukrainian jailed in fast-track political trial in Russian-occupied Crimea
07.04.2020
It is likely that Denis Kashuk agreed to plead guilty after threats that his mother and other members of the family would be arrested
61-year-old Crimean activist jailed for his pro-Ukraine views to go on trial in Russia
01.04.2020
The trial is shortly to begin in Russia of 61-year-old Ukrainian Oleh Prykhodko on charges almost certainly linked with his pro-Ukrainian views and unconcealed opposition to Russian occupation
5 years of torment for mother of Ukrainian POW seized by Russian-controlled Luhansk militants
01.04.2020
Roman Onishchuk was taken prisoner by militants of the Russian proxy ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ in June 2015, and there has been virtually no information about him since
Luhansk militants sentence Ukrainian to 12 years for “state treason”
04.03.2020
The self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ has sentenced Anton Hryhorov, an employee of the Luhansk University, to 12 years for what they call ‘state treason’
Russia’s oldest Ukrainian hostage gets 12-year sentence for “making Ukraine his priority”
28.02.2020
72-year-old Volodymyr Morgunov is probably Russia’s oldest Ukrainian political prisoner, with his horrifically long 12-year sentence seemingly linked with his handing information to Ukraine that Russia has no good reason to keep secret
Luhansk hostage likely crippled after torture in Russian proxy Donbas “republic”
19.02.2020
Ukrainian hostage Roman Sahaidak is in acute pain and may suffer irreparable damage to the spine after the beatings he received by militants from the self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk people’s republic’
Russia arrests 55-year-old Crimean Tatar as “fighter of a Ukrainian battalion”
18.02.2020
Russia has seized another Ukrainian political prisoner in occupied Crimea, bringing to at least five the number of new hostages since the only major exchange of prisoners to date, in September 2019
Russia’s first Ukrainian political prisoner was supposed to die
11.02.2020
Maidan activist Mykola Shyptur probably became Russia’s first Ukrainian political prisoner by mistake, although not for any good reason
Russia-controlled Luhansk militants seize mother of eight and force out “confession”
04.02.2020
The self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ has seized another woman hostage and is claiming that she was ‘spying’ for Ukraine’s Security Service
Ukrainian political prisoner faces death threats in Russia for being from Ukraine and Muslim
03.02.2020
Ukrainian political prisoner Hennady Lymeshko is receiving threats to his life from prison officials in Russia, and his wife reports that these are both because of Lymeshko’s Ukrainian nationality, and because he converted to Islam in 2018
14-year sentences because Russia needed a Ukrainian saboteur show trial to justify annexing Crimea
24.01.2020
The whereabouts have finally been learned of 55-year-old Volodymyr Dudka and Oleksiy Bessarabov (43) given horrifically long sentences for refusing to ‘confess’ to an implausible ‘sabotage plot’ in Russian-occupied Crimea
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