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Russia’s highest court approves abduction and breathtakingly lawless 10.5-year sentence against Ukrainian patriot Iryna Horobtsova

Three Russian or Russian occupation 'courts' have seen no problem with passing a huge sentence for 'spying' despite the most compelling of 'alibis', namely that they had abducted Iryna Horobtsova 11 months earlier


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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russians imprison two Crimean Tatar brothers on lawless charges, and move into one of their homes

Russian prisons and the failure to provide medical care have taken a huge toll on 54-year-old Rustem Gugurik’s health, and, almost certainly, on his 62-year-old brother Bekir, whom Russia is hiding

• War crimes

Doctor first abducted from occupied Donbas in 2015 sentenced to 15 years ‘for spying for Ukraine’

Serhiy Petryk spoiled the propaganda video which is one of the reasons for these travesties, by saying he was innocent and a Ukrainian citizen, and doing so in Ukrainian

• Prohibition of discrimination   • Social and economic rights

Appeal dismissed against crucial Ukrainian court ruling recognizing a single-sex couple as de facto married

The Kyiv Court of Appeal found that the earlier ruling had, in no way, obstructed the civic organization ‘All together’ from observing the ‘traditional family values’ they espouse

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean Tatar political prisoner subjected to ominous new wave of torture

The FSB first grabbed Mamut Belyalov and savagely tortured him for fake ‘confessions’ when he was just 24. He is now 26, and already serving a monstrous 12-year sentence

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Brutal cruelty against Crimean Tatar mother and her family in Russia’s witch hunt for ‘Ukrainian spies’

Niyara Ersmambetova is one of an ever-increasing number of women on occupied territory whom Russia has abducted and accused of secret ‘treason’ charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Nine years in Russian captivity after Russia’s ‘shoddiest’ show trial and no end in sight?

Three Ukrainians were seized in November 2016 because Russia's FSB wanted to stage a new 'Crimean saboteur' show trial. All remain imprisoned, serving horrific sentences despite evidently absurd charges and sloppily fabricated 'evidence'

• War crimes

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.

• Civic society

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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Documenting war crimes in Ukraine

The global T4P (Tribunal for Putin) initiative was created in response to Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine in February 2022. The participants of the initiative document events that have signs of crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes) in all regions of Ukraine.

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Dissident movement in Ukraine. Virtual museum

KHPG has been researching the history of the human rights movement in Ukraine for over 30 years. In particular, it has prepared about 350 biographies of the movement participants, conducted more than 200 interviews with them and published their works.

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