Likes in social media, correspondence in messengers, and even phone conversations. All of this can lead to imprisonment if a costly forensic examination reveals that it justifies Russia's aggression against Ukraine. The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group analyzed 715 verdicts against people accused of such crimes.

Arkady Bushchenko, a Supreme Court judge, has issued an opposing view after the cassation court upheld a prison sentence against a 70-year-old pensioner for ‘liking’ a post about a Russian military pilot

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has been actively prosecuting those who circulate information deemed to justify, claim legitimacy for or deny Russian aggression.

Bohdan Ziza [Azizov] has confirmed that the supposed ‘confession’ that he made in May 2022 in occupied Crimea was extracted through torture

“The state should not be the supervisor controlling the flow of information that comes to the people because the people stay above the state.”

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has ignored flagrant falsification of charges brought against Iryna Danilovych, and sentenced the 43-year-old civic journalist, nurse and human rights defender to seven years’ imprisonment

The FSB who abducted, tortured and threatened to kill Iryna Danilovych claim that she ‘voluntarily’ remained in their basement, and was perfectly ‘comfortable’ in near-hotel conditions

Denis Korovin is believed to have been the FSB officer who seized and savagely tortured Vladyslav Yesypenko

Iryna Danilovych's abduction, disappearance and evidently trumped-up charges demonstate the FSB’s certainty that they can commit any infringements and rights violations with impunity.

Many commentators believe that the occupation regime is reacting with hysteria and repression to Ukrainian patriotic songs ignored throughout the occupation because they understand that their days are named

It is well over five years since Russia was expressly ordered by the UN’s International Court of Justice to revoke its extraordinary ban on the Mejlis, or self-governing body, of the Crimean Tatar people.

The Russian occupation ‘Crimean High Court’ has knocked one year off the politically motivated 6-year sentence against Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, with the reason of quite staggering cynicism

The Russian FSB who abducted and tortured Iryna Danilovych in April this year see no need to deny that the charges used to imprison the Crimean civic journalist, nurse and rights defender are fabricated. Quite the contrary

There has been total silence from the main Russian press agencies about Russia’s bombing of a shopping centre in Kremenchuk, and the Russian Union of Journalists never reports anything that could annoy the Kremlin

A 21-year-old Crimean has received an 18-month suspended sentence in Russian-occupied Crimea for “pro-Ukrainian slogans” on social media

Iryna Danilovych was held incommunicado for 12 days, with the first eight secretly held and placed under massive pressure by the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea

Russia committed at least 243 crimes against journalists and the media in the first two months after its 2022 invasion, with these including killings, abductions, torture, threats and attacks on TV towers

Iryna Danilovych, a Ukrainian nurse and civic journalist reporting on medical issues in occupied Crimea, has disappeared after being seized by Russian-controlled enforcement officers on 29 April

A day after Russian invaders held a large number of Ukrainian journalists hostage, trying in vain to get them to collaborate, the occupying forces in Berdiansk have come up with stunningly feeble propaganda to try to justify their invasion

Russia has effectively silenced all sources of objective information about its war against Ukraine at home, and is swiftly moving to seize control of the media where it has seized Ukrainian cities