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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Monstrous sentences against Crimean Tatar journalist and activists seized in Russian retaliation for a humiliating attack by Ukraine

Sentences of up to 19 years were passed despite the only verifiable ‘evidence’ being an innocuous conversation about Muslim daily prayers seven years earlier


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Russia passes huge sentences against 65-year-old Melitopol pensioner and two other Ukrainians for their patriotism

Iryna Sukhodei was claimed by an invading power to have committed treason by supporting her own country

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Putin gives green light to expropriation of Ukrainians’ homes on occupied territory

Russian ‘filtration’ measures at Sheremetyevo are making it very clear that Ukrainians are not wanted on occupied territory, with the Russian invaders effectively given carte blanche to plunder their property

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Two Ukrainian women could face 6-year sentences for their faith as Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea

50-year-old Olena Ivashina and Olha Podlesna (55) are under house arrest following the latest armed raids against men and women for studying the Bible

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences disabled Crimean Tatar from occupied Kherson oblast to 8 years for opposing its occupation of Crimea

Eldar Karamurzaev is one of thirty men abducted from occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and illegally charged under Russian legislation with legal activities on Ukrainian territory

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65-year-old Donetsk teacher sentenced to 12 years because Russia couldn’t imprison its real target

Valentyna Zayarna received a massive sentence for giving shelter to a Ukrainian defender, for trying to pick up a parcel for him and, probably, because Denys Storozhuk is safely out of Russia’s reach

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Monstrous sentence against Yehor Kuch, a young Ukrainian accused by Russian invaders of ‘spying’ for his own country

The 20-year sentence is far worse than those regularly passed against violent criminals, with the other difference being that criminals will receive pardons and pay if they agree to fight in Ukraine

• Voices of war

‘They were striking me on the head, putting a gun to the back of my head, and pretending to pull the triggerʼ

100 days in a secret prison of the Ministry of State Security of the so-called “DPR”. 13 years in a strict regime penal colony. Beatings, simulated executions, broken ribs, and a cold basement — this is the story of civilian prisoner, neurophysiologist Yuri Shapovalov, who waited until a prisoner exchange and eventually returned home.

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Not Only Dr. Evil: Medical Care behind Russian Bars

What is it like to survive in captivity, suffering from a stroke, tuberculosis, or diabetes, when instead of medical care you often receive beatings and humiliation?

• Voices of war

The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part One.

She survived the betrayal of her colleagues and 45 days of Russian captivity. Larysa Fesenko, the director of a lyceum in the Kupiansk district, was thrown into a dungeon for refusing to side with the enemy and teach children under the Rushist flag.

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The site contains decisions of international judicial bodies in precedent-setting cases and analytical articles on violations of personal data protection, illegal wiretapping, defamation and other issues related to the human right to privacy.

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