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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia extracts surreal ‘confession’ a year after abducting 59-year-old Maryna Kovalenko

No attempt to make the charges against Maryna Kovalenko even remotely plausible and it is possible that she was targeted because her son is serving in Ukraine's Armed Forces

Crimean sentenced to 5.5 years for social media comments in support of Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Oleksandr Maliarenko is the latest in a mounting number of Ukrainians imprisoned either for writing the truth about Russia's war of aggression or for expressing support for the defenders of their own country

Three children orphaned for Russia’s new Crimean ‘treason trial’ and huge sentence

In its persecution of Svitlana Kolomiyets, Russia is again shattering children’s lives for lawless 'trials' of Ukrainian citizens from occupied territory on supposed ‘spying’ or ‘treason’ charges.

Abducted IT specialist found alive in occupation ‘court’ after 13 months of enforced disappearance and Russian lies

Serhiy Hrishchenkov was probably targeted for his pro-Ukrainian position and held in isolation for 13 months while the Russian FSB used torture, threats against his family or similar to extract ‘a confession’

KHPG, Memorial & OVD.info added to ‘List of terrorists & extremists’ for reporting on repression in Russia and occupied Ukraine

The move is clearly aimed at silencing voices in defence of Russia’s ever-mounting number of political prisoners, including those from occupied parts of Ukraine.

Russia imprisons Crimean political prisoner 2,200 kilometres from her infant daughters

Russia’s brutality is directed not just against Crimean political prisoners, but against their small children, with 26-year-old Oleksandra Strilets one of at least four mothers abducted and facing political charges in the last year

Crimean Tatar political prisoner illegally returned to Russian captivity and denied treatment for cancer

Russia claimed ‘full medical care’ to justify rearresting gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner Lenur Khalilov. It was a brutal lie

Russia brings new ‘treason’ charges against young Crimean Tatar political prisoner after months of torture

The FSB have resorted to both physical torture and to terrorization of Mamut Belyalov's family

Massive sentences against Yalta couple two years after Krystyna Markova was abducted by the FSB and vanished

Any 'trial' would be illegal, but in this case, it is also likely that the two were held incommunicado, without access to a lawyer and without charges being laid, for eight months

Death sentence without witnesses in Russia’s latest conveyor-belt trial of Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Not only were the sentences particularly brutal, but they were handed down without warning, thus making it impossible for family and human rights activists to attend or, at least, stand outside in solidarity

Ukrainian sentenced to five years for writing that Russian-occupied territory is part of Ukraine

Volodymyr Dobriyan is one of an ever-increasing number of Ukrainians sentenced to real terms of imprisonment for expressing opposition to Russia's aggression against Ukraine

71-year-old Ukrainian patriot Halyna Dovhopola unbroken after 7 years in Russian captivity, but “won’t survive another such winter”

With Russia merciless in its treatment of even the oldest Ukrainian political prisoners, publicity is urgently needed for Halyna Dovhopola's situation