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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Nine years in Russian captivity after Russia’s ‘shoddiest’ show trial and no end in sight?

Three Ukrainians were seized in November 2016 because Russia's FSB wanted to stage a new 'Crimean saboteur' show trial. All remain imprisoned, serving horrific sentences despite evidently absurd charges and sloppily fabricated 'evidence'


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• War crimes

Russia sentences youngest abducted journalist to 14 years for Melitopol is Ukraine Telegram channel

The sentence against Yana Suvorova is the fourth to date against courageous journalists / Telegram channel administrators providing truthful information about Melitopol under Russian occupation

• War crimes

Ukrainian abducted, tortured and sentenced to life because Ukraine carried out an attack on Russian invaders

If Mykola Dzhosh did provide information to Ukraine’s Armed Forces, then all credit to him, however the 33-year-old may well have been seized because the Russians needed somebody to blame

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Imprisoned Ukrainian marine biologist charged with ‘treason’ for opposing Russia’s plans in Antarctic area

Russia is openly persecuting 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov for remaining loyal to Ukraine and for seeking to protect marine resources and diversity in the Southern Ocean. Without robust international attention, he faces a 12-20-year sentence

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian court orders rearrest and 17-year sentence against blind and disabled Crimean political prisoner

Russia’s prosecutor has confirmed that even blindness and Russian legislation envisaging Oleksandr Sizikov’s release are no impediment where Russia’s persecution of Crimean political prisoners is concerned

• War crimes

Russian invaders gun down civilians in Pokrovsk, try to kill others in evacuation van

It is not just that the invaders know they can kill civilians with impunity. Putin has 'honoured' many such suspected war criminals

• War crimes

Russia passes massive sentences against 15 Ukrainian POWs for defending Ukraine against its invasion

Using a ruling issued long after the prisoners of war were seized and then put on ‘trial’, Russia claimed that their defence of their country was ‘terrorism’ and ‘a violent attempt to seize power’

• War crimes

Uncle Vanya, Bison, San Sanych — who tortures Ukrainian prisoners of war?

Ukrainians returning from captivity will undoubtedly never forget those who turned their lives in imprisonment into hell. Everything is known about some of the torturers. Others hide behind a call sign. After a “working day,” these “San Sanych”-es wash the blood off their hands and go home to hug their wives and children.

• Voices of war

‘I’m afraid I’ll be kidnapped and taken to Russia’

Obtaining political asylum in Ukraine for someone with Russian citizenship isn’t easy, even if they defend Ukrainian interests and could face imprisonment on terrorism charges in Russia.

• Civic society

Trust and Strategic Communication in Times of Crisis

These words are not abstract for us — they are part of our everyday survival and work.

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Online Library

Online library of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group. Here you can read or download free books, articles and documents on basic and specific human rights issues

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Documenting war crimes in Ukraine

The global T4P (Tribunal for Putin) initiative was created in response to Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine in February 2022. The participants of the initiative document events that have signs of crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes) in all regions of Ukraine.

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