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Imprisoned Ukrainian marine biologist charged with ‘treason’ for opposing Russia’s plans in Antarctic area

Russia is openly persecuting 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov for remaining loyal to Ukraine and for seeking to protect marine resources and diversity in the Southern Ocean. Without robust international attention, he faces a 12-20-year sentence


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Russians murder civilians waving a white flag as UN report slams mass-scale and systematic attacks as crimes against humanity

Russia uses the same methods over a vast area, with it clear that civilians are deliberately targeted, in the hope of driving Ukrainians from their territory

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

13-year sentence on ‘treason’ charges for pro-Ukrainian graffiti in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ksenia Svietlishyna was hunted by the notorious Crimean SMERSH for her pro-Ukrainian messages. There are very serious grounds for doubting the other charges used as excuse for this appalling judicial travesty

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia defies its own puppet court to further torment blind and disabled political prisoner

Russia’s reprisals against Oleksandr Sizikov have been relentless and brutal, with blindness never treated as impediment to surreal charges and planted literature which Sizikov could not read

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

75-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev is facing a massive sentence he can't survive for a 'crime' that never happened

The elderly Ukrainian, whose civic activism would have made him an obvious target, is being held in horrific conditions and denied even the most fundamental health care

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mass detentions four times as Crimean Tatar delegation heads to Moscow demanding justice

Russia is, yet again repeating Soviet ways in its persecution of Crimean Tatars, with the efforts to stop the Crimean Tatars from reaching Moscow both profoundly lawless and, ultimately, futile

• War crimes

Remembrance of the Holodomor banned, but not crushed, in Russian-occupied Ukraine

In remembering the victims of a terrible act of genocide, please remember also those on occupied territory who continue to honour their memory despite the real threat of Russian repression

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Uncle Vanya, Bison, San Sanych — who tortures Ukrainian prisoners of war?

Ukrainians returning from captivity will undoubtedly never forget those who turned their lives in imprisonment into hell. Everything is known about some of the torturers. Others hide behind a call sign. After a “working day,” these “San Sanych”-es wash the blood off their hands and go home to hug their wives and children.

• Voices of war

‘I’m afraid I’ll be kidnapped and taken to Russia’

Obtaining political asylum in Ukraine for someone with Russian citizenship isn’t easy, even if they defend Ukrainian interests and could face imprisonment on terrorism charges in Russia.

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Trust and Strategic Communication in Times of Crisis

These words are not abstract for us — they are part of our everyday survival and work.

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The right to privacy

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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Stories of Convicts. The struggle for life

The site contains stories of people sentenced to life without the right to review their sentences. The evidence of these people’s guilt is based on confessions obtained under torture, which they recanted in court. However, the defence evidence and arguments of innocence of these people were not investigated by the investigation and the court.

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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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