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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Oleksandra Strilets' infant daughter dies in occupied Crimea after Russia imprisons her mother for supposed ‘treason’

Lera was in a neonatal intensive care unit when her mother was sentenced by an illegal occupation 'court' to 12 years and taken into custody, together with Lera's grandmother who suffers from multiple sclerosis

• War crimes

Russian fighters execute two Ukrainian prisoners of war in Donetsk oblast

Aside from the charges against Ukrainian political prisoners, there are almost no crimes so serious that a Russian prisoner cannot buy his freedom by agreeing to kill Ukrainians, with these the men receiving criminal orders to gun down prisoners of war.

• War crimes

Melitopol husband and wife sentenced to 20 & 18 years after describing Russian abduction and torture

Both Hennadiy Kapralov, who turns 62 in a few days and has heart issues and his 53-year-old wife Olha Kapralova denied the charges and described exactly how they were tortured for 'confessions'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia doubles to 21 years its sentence against savagely tortured Crimean Tatar political prisoner Mamut Belyalov

Mamut Belyalov has been in Russian captivity since 10 September 2022, with it now claimed that the young man, who was just 24, committed ‘treason’ against the aggressor state

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia comes for father of 19-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner after he actively sought her release

Nasiba Saidova, who was just 18 when arrested on 15 October 2025, two other very young women and Esma Nimetulayeva, a mother of five, are imprisoned for their religious beliefs and accused of ‘seeking to violently seize power’

• War crimes

Russia sentences husband and wife, abducted from occupied Kherson oblast, to 16 and 12 years for supporting Ukraine

The Russian invaders seized the parents of three boys, two of them underage, and called the couple's support for Ukraine to be 'treason

• War crimes

KHPG and ADC Memorial Inform UN CEDAW Committee about Russia’s Crimes against Ukrainian Women

The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) and the Anti-Discrimination Centre (ADC) Memorial — Brussels have submitted a joint report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Following its 93rd session, to be held in October 2026, the Committee will draw up a List of Issues for the Russian Federation.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

New depths plummeted in Russia’s torment of Crimean Tatar political prisoner with a malignant brain tumour

While deliberately postponing hearings on the evident grounds for Tofik Abdulgaziev's release, a Russian court has convicted him of 'contempt of court' for expressing outrage over a brutal deception aimed at rubberstamping his continued imprisonment

• War crimes

Russia sentences abducted 64-year-old Melitopol journalist to 15 years after holding her incommunicado since 2023

Russia did not admit to holding Iryna Levchenko for years, and the charges were never clear. This is doubtless in part because all that the aggressor state could come up with is so manifestly absurd

• War crimes

Abducted Melitopol woman tells Russian court how she was tortured with electric currents and mystery injections

As well as their usual arsenal of torture methods, the Russians also threatened reprisals against 53-year-old Olha Kapralova's children and grandchildren

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young lives as collateral damage for Russia’s brazen revenge against Crimean Tatar leader

Both civic journalist Asan Akhtemov and his cousin Aziz Akhtemov are imprisoned thousands of kilometres from their families because Russia wanted to fabricate a 'saboteur' plot

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB claim to have ‘arrested’ seriously ill Crimean woman and her brother 18 months after abducting their entire family

This is not the first time that Russia has claimed to have ‘arrested’ Ukrainians they have long held incommunicado, but the situation here is particularly worrying for several reasons

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