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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Death is Russia’s only limit in torment of Crimean Tatar political prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziev and his family

Rosa Abdulgazieva died without seeing her son who has been imprisoned since 2019, in reprisals for his Crimean Solidarity civic activism, with Russia now also persecuting Tofik Abdulgaziev's son, Amar

Ukrainian Baptist pastor faces deportation from occupied Luhansk oblast for refusal to take Russian citizenship

The occupation regime is claiming that 66-year-old Volodymyr Rytikov ‘poses a threat to Russia’s state security’

Russia uses punitive psychiatry for torment without end against vulnerable Ukrainian with autism

Leonid Popov has been in Russian captivity for over three years, with the 25-year-old's special needs having proved no impediment to the Russians torturing him, then staging a grotesque 'trial' on spying charges

• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Armed terror, long sentences & fines under Russian occupation for up to 12-year-old pro-Ukrainian social media posts

A cartoon of Putin drinking Ukraine's blood from 2014, a call in 2022 from a Ukrainian for other Ukrainians to support their own Armed Forces, these are just two of the old posts dredged up for Russia to hunt down Ukrainian patriots

Cruel torment as Russia hides even the Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages it is openly persecuting

Although those POWs, civilian hostages held incommunicado, without any status, remain most in danger, the obstacles Russia is placing against relatives and others finding out where Ukrainians are held prisoner mean that none is safe

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Volodymyr Ananiev turns 77 in Russian captivity in brutal reprisal for his pro-Ukrainian position and civic activism

Russia's oldest Ukrainian political prisoner is facing a massive sentence which all Russians complicit in his persecution, including the 'judge', know in advance that he cannot survive

• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Freedom House rates Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine as less free than the most notorious dictatorships

Freedom House rates Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory as less free even than the most notorious dictatorships

• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

'Treason' charges against Crimean political prisoner imprisoned twice for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Since Yevhen Shved has been imprisoned since June 2023, it is likely that the new charges are over social media posts or fake testimony from other prisoners

13-year sentence for refusing to be silent about Russia’s occupation of Kherson oblast

Serhiy Tsyhipa needs voices in his defence after being abducted, tortured and held in Russian captivity for five years for opposing Russia's full-scale invasion of his country

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Health concerns mount for 62-year-old Larysa Haidai, held incommunicado for two years while FSB fabricated charges

Larysa Haidai is one of three women abducted by the FSB in March 2024 and held in total isolation, probably to extract ‘confessions’ and come up with charges

Russia sentences Ukrainian Serhiy Moskalenko to 25 years calling resistance to invaders ‘treason’ and ‘terrorism’

The sentences are becoming truly massive although the indictments generally differ only in the dates cited

Young volunteer, firefighters, medics killed for trying to save the victims of Russian attacks

Russia’s repeat strikes, timed to kill those seeking to save the victims of earlier attacks, have increased sharply each year and are clearly coordinated state policy

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