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

Russia’s failure to heed warnings about the recent Crocus City Hall terrorist attack was probably because its enforcement bodies were far too busy fabricating cases against Ukrainians or those opposing Russia’s war of aggression

It is 18 months since the Russians took Leniye Umerova prisoner, with the accusation of mystery ‘spying’ only emerging after a string of wildly implausible other charges

The charges against 46-year-old Serhiy Karamzin are based solely on a videoed ‘confession’ while Russia’s FSB actively prevented him from seeing an independent lawyer

World Headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses (20.04.2024) – April 20th marks the seventh anniversary of Russia’s nationwide ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses, which has led to hundreds of peaceful believers jailed and some brutally tortured.

Russia is not content to imprison the world-renowned human rights defender, but is also placing his life and health in danger

The suggestion from Ukraine’s Military Intelligence that the video was prepared in advance would raise many disturbing questions, as does the behaviour of the authorities in the light of the warnings received

The 51-year-old poet was charged with ‘fakes’ about Russia’s armed forces and ‘calls to terrorism’ over a poem and post in which he spelled out Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine

Statement by the International MemorialAssociation

Illya Hibeskul was imprisoned for almost a year after the FSB decided to concoct charges against the young Ukrainian who had refused Russian citizenship

Russia really has descended into its repressive past, with Darya Kozyreva imprisoned and facing insane criminal charges for posting lines from Taras Shevchenko’s Testament

The world-renowned human rights defender noted in his final address that all recent developments had only confirmed his stark assessment of Russia’s descent into fascist totalitarianism

Almost nothing is known about Viktor Demchenko, however Russia was undoubtedly imprisoning him illegally and probably caused his death, as it did the deaths of Dzhemil Gafarov and Kostiantyn Shyrinh