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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Medical torture to the end against Crimean Tatar political prisoner with malignant tumour and his family

Both Russian doctors and judges are complicit, either by omission or through direct steps, in Russia’s persecution of a Crimean Solidarity activist for his refusal to remain silent about Russian repression.


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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s attack on Crimean Solidarity extends repression to lawyers defending political prisoners

The list of new targets, the vast majority of whom are Crimean Tatars, is huge, and includes human rights defenders, journalists and the fathers, wives or other close family members of political prisoners

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Ukrainian sentenced to 12 years for ‘endangering Russian security’ through donation to Ukraine’s defenders

Victor Nikitenko was 'accused' by the aggressor state which invaded Ukraine of seeking to help the men and women in defending his country

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War crimes probe initiated after Russians interrogate, then execute Ukrainian POW

This is the latest of many killings of Ukrainian prisoners of war, with evidence mounting that Russian commanders encourage subordinates to "not take prisoners"

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chersonese in Russian-occupied Crimea added to UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger

It is, tragically, not only Tauric Chersonese which Russia is destroying in its attempt to commandeer and rewrite history. Its destruction of the vital Crimean Tatar Khans Palace in Bakhchysarai has been no less barbaric

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Two young Ukrainians sentenced to 15 & 20 years for fictitious ‘international terrorism’ near Russian-occupied Melitopol

Russian attempts to present railway partisans as ‘international terrorists’ would under any circumstances be absurd. They become even more surreal given the alleged reason why the sabotage didn’t work

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences 59-year-old Maryna Kovalenko whose son is defending Ukraine to 13 years for 'treason'

Not only is it unclear what the information is that the ex-Luhansk school head is supposed to have passed to Ukraine's SBU or why they were interested, but when she could have done so before she was abducted

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A civilian prisoner from Mariupol is in critical condition

He broke into Mariupol in March 2022 to save his family. The family managed to leave, but he did not. Mariupol boxing coach Dmytro Shurda has been in captivity for more than five years — despite serious diagnoses: tuberculosis, HIV, two heart attacks and a stroke.

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Crimean political prisoner Bohdan Ziza transferred to Buryatia

The illegally imprisoned Crimean artist Bohdan Ziza was transferred to Ulan-Ude, thousands of kilometers from his home, which is a gross violation of international law.

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Bedridden “Azov man” in Russia was convicted of “terrorism”

. . . For the fifth year in a row, Inna talks to her son every day, holding his photograph in front of her. She tells him about his younger brothers, asks him to hold on, and — most importantly! — survive. “Azovian” Bohdan is far away: in Russian captivity. Confined to bed after several shell shocks and severe beatings. Sentenced by a Russian court to 16 years in prison.

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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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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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