While Putin pardons and 'honours' convicted killers and other mercenaries, the regime imprisons young people like Darya Kozyreva who refuse to remain silence about Russia's monstrous war against Ukraine and its war crimes

One politically motivated sentence which cost Hennadiy Lymeshko 8 years of his life and his daughter’s childhood would appear to not satisfy the Russians who have taken him prisoner again

Russia first claimed that Ukrainians defending their country were ‘terrorists’ trying to ‘violently seize power’, and is now bringing ‘terrorism’ charges against Sergei Davidis for rightly calling the POWs political prisoners

Andriy Kolomiyets has served a 10-year sentence on legally absurd and politically motivated charges, and it is vital, perhaps with the help of a third country, that he is freed and not held indefinitely in a ‘deportation centre’

Ostap Demchuk, together with his 17-year-old daughter, had clearly been targeted because he was Ukrainian, even before the FSB came up with grotesque ‘treason’ charges

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

A new law just passed has handed Russia’s FSB yet another “powerful weapon of persecution” against those who tell the truth about Russia’s war crimes and about Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation

Viktor Shur is almost 68, with Russia's torture and 10 years of imprisonment having taken a terrible toll on his health

A Russian court has sentenced lawyer Dmitry Talantov to seven years on identical charges to those laid against Alexei Gorinov while the latter, who is already 63, has received a second sentence on equally grotesque charges

The charges and torment of 68-year-old Nadezhda Buyanova provide a terrifying indictment of Russia's methods of persecution, especially against those with Ukrainian roots

Russian indoctrination claiming ‘reinstatement of historical truth’ and of its ‘historical borders’ is especially chilling given that the claims include Ukrainian territory not under its occupation

Whether or not Oleksandr Permyakov was involved, Zakhar Prilepin was no innocent victim, but an active participant in Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine

The Kremlin's 'oldest' Ukrainian political prisoner, Valentin Vyhivsky, has been held in near total isolation for almost 10 years, far more than his grandfather, a political prisoner imprisoned on equally grotesque charges during Stalin's regime

The suspicion is strong that Petro Opalnik’s indictment could simply read:‘Ukrainian’

Pardoned by Putin to kill Ukrainians, those Russian convicted criminals who died are now the subject of memorial plaques in schools and other measures to honour their ‘heroism’

Although effectively charged solely with telling the harsh truth, it is possible that 68-year-old Nadezhda Buyanova, who is from Lviv, was simply a convenient target

Aleksandr Bastrykin and Russia’s Investigative Committee have been using torture to fabricate preposterous charges against Ukrainians since 2014, making his call for Putin to reinstate the death penalty chilling

Arseny Turbin had merely posted leaflets critical of Vladimir Putin and shown interest, no more, in the Free Russia Legion

Not only was Krystyna Liubashenko, the mother of two small daughters, charged with ‘military fakes’ and ‘terrorism’ for peaceful protest, but she was probably tricked into coming to Moscow

Russia used the notorious Izolyatsia secret prison in occupied Donetsk to torture Oleksandr Marchenko, and has now escalated his torment in Russian captivity for refusal to repeat lies about the war against Ukraine