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Terrifying twist in Russia’s persecution of Ukrainian political prisoner Hennadiy Lymeshko

One politically motivated sentence which cost Hennadiy Lymeshko 8 years of his life and his daughter’s childhood would appear to not satisfy the Russians who have taken him prisoner again

Russia charges Memorial head with ‘justifying terrorism’ for calling persecuted Ukrainian POWs political prisoners

Russia first claimed that Ukrainians defending their country were ‘terrorists’ trying to ‘violently seize power’, and is now bringing ‘terrorism’ charges against Sergei Davidis for rightly calling the POWs political prisoners

Ukrainian political prisoner imprisoned for 10 years in Russia’s revenge for Euromaidan is 'released', yet not freed

Andriy Kolomiyets has served a 10-year sentence on legally absurd and politically motivated charges, and it is vital, perhaps with the help of a third country, that he is freed and not held indefinitely in a ‘deportation centre’

Ukrainian living in Russia sentenced to 13 years on ‘treason’ charge for sending money to family in Ukraine

Ostap Demchuk, together with his 17-year-old daughter, had clearly been targeted because he was Ukrainian, even before the FSB came up with grotesque ‘treason’ charges

Duma broadens ‘treason’ charges against anybody opposing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

Legislators equate criticism of Russia's war against Ukraine with ‘terrorism and extremism’

A new law just passed has handed Russia’s FSB yet another “powerful weapon of persecution” against those who tell the truth about Russia’s war crimes and about Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation

Ten years of Russian torment for a photo of cows grazing on a disused aerodrome

Viktor Shur is almost 68, with Russia's torture and 10 years of imprisonment having taken a terrible toll on his health

Yevhen Zakharov: '...And that's when we created KHPG'

Fighting against punitive psychiatry, helping distributors of the informal press, and... gardening. On the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group's birthday, its director, Yevhen Zakharov, tells us how it all began.

New reprisal sentences against Alexei Gorinov and lawyer for condemning Russian atrocities in Ukraine

A Russian court has sentenced lawyer Dmitry Talantov to seven years on identical charges to those laid against Alexei Gorinov while the latter, who is already 63, has received a second sentence on equally grotesque charges

Ukrainian-born paediatrician jailed in chilling show trial over alleged criticism of Russia’s war against Ukraine

The charges and torment of 68-year-old Nadezhda Buyanova provide a terrifying indictment of Russia's methods of persecution, especially against those with Ukrainian roots

Renowned Russian civic activist Ildar Dadin killed defending Ukraine

Ildar had seen no choice but to take up arms in order to counter the mass killings and other crimes that his country was committing against Ukraine

Schoolkids in Russia and occupied Ukraine forced to ‘celebrate’ Russian annexation as ‘reunification’

Russian indoctrination claiming ‘reinstatement of historical truth’ and of its ‘historical borders’ is especially chilling given that the claims include Ukrainian territory not under its occupation