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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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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 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

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’

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

Russia’s Investigative Committee tortures Ukrainians for fabricated ‘trials’, and now demands the death penalty

Aleksandr Bastrykin and Russia’s Investigative Committee have been using torture to fabricate preposterous charges against Ukrainians since 2014, making his call for Putin to reinstate the death penalty chilling

Massive spike in ‘List of Terrorists and Extremists’ as Russia persecutes critics of its war against Ukraine and LGBT

Russia’s failure to heed warnings about the recent Crocus City Hall terrorist attack was probably because its enforcement bodies were far too busy fabricating cases against Ukrainians or those opposing Russia’s war of aggression

Russia stages new 'trial' to increase sentence against 64-year-old Ukrainian imprisoned for affirming that Crimea is Ukraine

Oleh Prykhodko is currently imprisoned for his condemnation of Russia’s invasion and occupation of Crimea and could be facing a further long term of imprisonment

Move to criminalize protest over political and religious persecution in Russia and occupied Ukraine as ‘justification of extremism’

Russia is already using ill-defined ‘extremism’ legislation as a weapon against Ukrainians in occupied Crimea, with the new bill further broadening the scope for repression

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