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Russia confirms torture is state policy through withdrawal from vital European Convention

Russia’s withdrawal from a Convention against Torture which it stopped complying with even minimally in 2022 will not absolve it from liability for its violations, but it is a telling statement

Russian court sentences Memorial Head to 6 years for calling persecuted Ukrainian POWs political prisoners

Russia will not, at least, be able to execute its sentence against Sergei Davidis, unlike the Azov POWs and hundreds of other Ukrainian prisoners of war and political prisoners

Ukrainian political prisoner abducted and given a new sentence after 8 years in Russian prison

Hennadiy Lymeshko had been held incommunicado for six months, with the FSB typically using such isolation to torture its victims

Ukrainian political prisoner vanishes after being abducted by FSB instead of released from Russian prison

It is almost five months since all contact was lost with Hennadiy Lymeshko, and there are real grounds for fearing that the FSB are holding him somewhere and torturing him

Russia bans Internet searches for ‘extremist material’, broadening scope for terror in occupied Ukraine

This is the first time that Russia has introduced prosecution for a Google search, with even Putin chief propagandist indignant, albeit only because it will make denunciations more difficult

Ukrainian political prisoner issues urgent appeal over ‘Gestapo-like’ treatment in Russian women’s prison

Iryna Danilovych, whose appeal conceals all of the prisoners, is herself a victim of Russian lawlessness in occupied Crimea, imprisoned for her human rights work and civic journalism

Russian FSB given chilling new weapon of repression against Ukrainian political prisoners

Up till now, Russia’s FSB have generally confined their most horrific torture to before their victim was formally charged and remanded in custody. That is likely to change with the dangerous new powers which Russian legislators have given them

Political prisoner Andriy Kolomiyets still trapped in Russia after serving all of a 10-year sentence in revenge for Maidan

Andriy was subjected to savage torture and imprisoned on insane charges for ten years, yet is still effectively held in Russia, with other Ukrainians facing the same problems

New legislation formalizes Russia’s brutal isolation of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

The new provisions are draconian, however Russia’s treatment of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs has always been savage, with or without norms

Meeting with Representatives of Ukrainian Roma in Brussels

Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” continues to highlight the challenges faced by Roma communities in Ukraine. This year, with the support of IPHR is organized a meeting with Roma veterans who voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A reliable tool in the hands of human rights defenders: how the KHPG database works

Convenient systematization, reliable archiving, and high speed of processing a large amount of information — all these make the database that KHPG fills during the search for missing and captured Ukrainians unique.

Darya Kozyreva gets real prison term for Taras Shevchenko poem and opposition to Russia’s war against Ukraine

While Putin pardons and 'honours' convicted killers and other mercenaries, the regime imprisons young people like Darya Kozyreva who refuse to remain silence about Russia's monstrous war against Ukraine and its war crimes

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