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The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.
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Russian court upholds abduction, savage torture and insane sentence against Melitopol volunteer Yaroslav Zhuk
29.04.2025
Russia claimed that an alleged attack on a collaborator helping the invaders constituted ‘international terrorism’ and subjected Yaroslav Zhuk to horrific torture in order to extract a ‘confession’
Putin calls murderous attack on Sumy ‘revenge’ amid massive increase in Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians
28.04.2025
While Putin focuses on the bloody attack on Palm Sunday, UN human rights monitors have recorded a terrifying escalation in such atrocities against civilians with 151 people at least killed just since the beginning of April
Donbas hostages savagely tortured for ‘confessions’ in 2019 sentenced in Russia to 24 years
25.04.2025
Russia’s ‘trial’’ of Andriy Harrius, Yuriy Ivanov and Stanislav Surovtsev, who were seized and tortured by an illegal armed formation which Russia had not recognized could not be more incriminating
Russia returns body of abducted Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna with scars from torture
25.04.2025
Russia took six months to return Victoria’s body in a state making it difficult to determine the cause of death. They could not, however, conceal the evidence of torture
Huge sentences and videoed ‘repentance’ in Russia’s mounting terror in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast
24.04.2025
A Russian occupation ‘court’ has sentenced a Ukrainian woman in her fifties to 14 years’ imprisonment for supporting the military unit that her Ukrainian defender son is serving in
Russia’s selective ‘terrorism’ in war against Ukraine and in fraternizing with the Taliban
23.04.2025
Moscow’s rapprochement with the Taliban coincides with its sharp escalation in fabricated ‘terrorism’ charges against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs
Horrific sentences demanded against five Ukrainians abducted from Russian-occupied Melitopol
22.04.2025
Russia began openly abducting and torturing civilians with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and has used tortured-out ‘confessions’ to concoct extraordinarily cynical charges of ‘international terrorism’
Russia intensifies plunder in policy to bring in Russians and eliminate Ukrainian identity in occupied Ukraine
18.04.2025
While ‘deporting’ Ukrainians and appropriating their property, Russia is planning to settle at least five million Russians in occupied Ukraine by 2030
Student abducted when he was 18 faces 20-year sentence for remaining true to Ukraine, not Russia
17.04.2025
Vladyslav Vidlatsky has been in Russian captivity for two years, with the charges against him very likely to be solely based on 'confessions' extracted through torture
Russia sentences another Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee to 14 years for supporting Ukraine
16.04.2025
Russia began abducting and torturing Ukrainian employees of the nuclear plant back in 2022, with Lilia Kachkariova the latest of several women to have been targeted
Ukraine frees abducted teacher after four years of torment in Russian-occupied Donetsk
15.04.2025
Natalia Shylo was seized and imprisoned on fake ‘spying’ charges based on social media posts when she tried to visit her sick mother in occupied Horlivka
Russia passes copy-pasted 12-year ‘spying sentence almost three years after abducting Ukrainian teenager
14.04.2025
Artem Kudzhanov was just 19 when seized by the Russians, tortured and forcibly disappeared, with the 'spying' charges only appearing very recently
Ukrainian abducted to Russia and sentenced to 18 years for defending Ukraine in 2015
11.04.2025
Russia is turning both the law and history upside down in surreal ‘trials’ based on a flawed ruling passed many years after the Ukrainians served in legal divisions of Ukraine’s Armed Forces
Chilling surveillance methods as Russia sentences Ukrainian to 10 years for donation to defend Ukraine
10.04.2025
It is possible that the mounting number of sentences against Ukrainians for donating money to help Ukraine's Armed Forces are aimed in part at terrorising the population, not least with the sense that surveillance is total
Russia sentences 17-year-old lad from occupied Ukraine to 6.5 years on ‘treason’ charges
09.04.2025
Age is no obstacle in Russia’s abductions, fake ‘trials’ and even killing of Ukrainians on occupied territory
With nine children killed in Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih, why would the USA (again) avoid blaming Russia?
07.04.2025
Not naming Russia as perpetrator of a horrific attack on a restaurant and children’s playground may avoid annoying Putin’s investment envoy, but it will not bring peace any closer
18-year-old escapes Russian-occupied Luhansk in search of “Ukraine and freedom”
04.04.2025
Ivan Sarancha was just 15 when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine but he understood the lies that Russia was telling, about Mariupol and Bucha, and understood that he stood with Ukraine
Russia forcibly disappears young Ukrainian from occupied Kherson oblast, then fabricates ‘trial’ and 18-year sentence
04.04.2025
It is, unfortunately, very likely that Solodky was tortured after his abduction by the Russians, with the charges against him totally illegal, whether the young Ukrainian was involved in resistance work or not
Desperate SOS as Russia upholds brutally cynical sentence against abducted Kherson activist Iryna Horobtsova
03.04.2025
Iryna Horobtsova was victim of a Russian enforced disappearance, with the aggressor state holding her incommunicado for two years before fabricating charges that incriminate them
Ukrainian political prisoners forced through torture to reject lawyers and to sing Russian anthem
02.04.2025
Nine men abducted from Kherson and tortured for 'confessions' are now again facing torture in Russian SIZO-1 in Rostov, which is rapidly becoming as notorious as the Taganrog prison where 27-year-old journalist Victoria Roshchyna died
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