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Yevhen Zakharov shortlisted for the Václav Havel Prize 2023

The prize is awarded annually by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for outstanding achievements in human rights protection.

In Memory: Ihor Kozlovskyy, renowned Ukrainian religious scholar and former Russian hostage

The death on 6 September of Ihor Kozlovskyy is a terrible loss for Ukraine and for all of us

Defender of Crimean Tatar political prisoners gets 6 years for posts spelling out Russia's war crimes in Ukraine

There was no fake information in the social media texts Olga Smirnova posted, merely information that clashed with the standard lies issued by the Kremlin and Russian defence military

63% of Russians view bloody dictator and mass murderer Stalin positively. In Ukraine only 4%

A substantial majority of Russians view mass murderer and dictator Joseph Stalin “with respect, admiration or approval”. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, just 4% of Ukrainians give such a response

Russians take parody 'My Denunciation' app seriously and report neighbours for opposing war against Ukraine or Putin

Even before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian regime was actively encouraging anonymous denunciations of neighbours or workmates for supposed ‘extremism’ or ‘anti-Russian views’.

Defender of Crimean Tatar political prisoners faces 7-year sentence for posts against Russia’s war against Ukraine

Oga Smirnova is accused of ‘fakes’ because she wrote the truth about Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine on eight social media posts

Open death threats against Ukrainian political prisoner in Russian captivity

There is every reason to believe that the appalling treatment that Ivan Yatskin is facing in Russian captivity is, like his very arrest, linked with his firmly pro-Ukrainian position

Savagely tortured Ukrainian political prisoner has spent nine years in Russian captivity

It is almost 9 years since Russia’s FSB abducted Valentyn Vyhivsky, held him incommunicado and savagely tortured him into ‘confessing’ to mystery spying charges

Young Crimean Tatar seized trying to visit her gravely ill father held in Russian solitary confinement

Russia's seizure and charges against Leniye Umerova have been described as one of the most overtly fabricated cases to date, and the competition since Russia began its aggression against Ukraine has been fierce

Ukrainian partisan captured and savagely tortured in Donbas put ‘on trial’ in Russia

The ‘trial’ is underway at the court Russia uses for political trials of Ukrainian citizens of Hryhory Sinchenko who almost died from the torture he was subjected to by Russia’s proxy ‘Donetsk republic’

Russia sentences human rights defender to 14 years for helping political prisoners seek justice from ECHR

Russia has reached “a new level of lawlessness” with its imprisonment of human rights defender Bakhrom Khamroev, with sinister methods that could well be used in occupied Crimea

New arrest on grotesque criminal charges in Russia’s attack on Perm Memorial and historical memory

This is the latest of a series of attacks on Memorial, targeted not only for its commitment to uncovering historical truth, but for its unwavering position on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and on Ukrainian political prisoners