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Help force Russia to free abducted and tortured Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employees!

Russia’s armed occupation of the largest nuclear power station in Europe is not only a question of nuclear safety. Voices are needed to ensure that Russia ends its terror and releases Ukrainian employees held prisoner


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Russia’s deportation and enforced disappearances of Ukrainian children are crimes against humanity – UN Commission

Despite the lies and backtracking after Putin’s arrest warrant, Russia made no effort to find children’s relatives and has not returned 80% of those children whose cases the Commission documented

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian political prisoner faces new 'trial' and life sentence for opposing Russia's occupation of Crimea

Oleh Prykhodko is 67 and has already spent seven years in Russian captivity in reprisal for his openly pro-Ukrainian stand.

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10-year sentence for love of Ukraine against 71-year-old pensioner under Russian occupation

Russia couldn’t charge Ukrainian Mykola Tynkov with ‘treason’, so came up with equally surreal charges in order to punish him for supporting his own country

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar political prisoner with a malignant brain tumour forced to sign a fake ‘clean bill of health’

Under pressure from the FSB, Russian 'doctors' have proven willing to betray their oath and effectively ensure that Tofik Abdulgaziev dies a very painful death in a Russian prison colony

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Russia sentences 69-year-old Ukrainian pensioner to 11 years for sending money to Ukraine

These sentences, passed by fake 'courts', often with minimal or no hearings, seem aimed at terrorizing the population and convincing them that they are under total surveillance

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Fake Russian 'court' sentences young Melitopol man to 19 years on rail partisan charges

It is unclear whether Vitaliy Skorokhod was one of the courageous partisans defending Ukraine on occupied territory or a victim of Russia’s brutal methods of fabricating prosecutions and terrorising the population

• Civic society

Statement on the Designation of the International Memorial Association as an ‘Undesirable Organization’

Yesterday, 17 February 2026, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, designated the International Memorial Association as an “undesirable organization.”

• Voices of war

Rescuing the living and searching for the dead

The canine unit, established long before the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, has since evolved into one of the most effective dog teams operating in wartime conditions. This article by the Kharkiv Human Rights Group examines how Antares operates, the tasks it performs, the challenges it faces, and how these dogs have become witnesses to the war.

• Voices of war

The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Four

On the night of September 7-8, 2022, in the midst of our counteroffensive in the Slobozhanshchyna region, one and a half hundred Ukrainian prisoners escaped from a torture chamber set up by the Russian occupiers in the Kupiansk police station. Among them was the director of the Lesnostinkivsky Lyceum. We are concluding the story of Larysa Fesenko, who spent 45 days behind bars.

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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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Online library of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group. Here you can read or download free books, articles and documents on basic and specific human rights issues

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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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