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Sinister secrecy over Russia’s abduction, torture and imprisonment of Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska

Russia has held Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska incommunicado, without any charges being laid for well over two years. It is chillingly unclear why they appear to be hiding her

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Russian solider sentenced to life for gunning down an unarmed Ukrainian POW

Despite the mounting number of Russian executions of Ukrainians surrendering, this was the first such trial, with the soldier’s commander having confirmed they were instructed not to take prisoners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean mother of two abducted by the FSB and held incommunicado for over a year

No charges have been laid against Sakha Manhubi, with the FSB not even admitting that she is in their custody, with the young woman one of an ever-increasing number of women being targeted in occupied Crimea

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Russians murder civilians waving a white flag as UN report slams mass-scale and systematic attacks as crimes against humanity

Russia uses the same methods over a vast area, with it clear that civilians are deliberately targeted, in the hope of driving Ukrainians from their territory

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13-year sentence on ‘treason’ charges for pro-Ukrainian graffiti in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ksenia Svietlishyna was hunted by the notorious Crimean SMERSH for her pro-Ukrainian messages. There are very serious grounds for doubting the other charges used as excuse for this appalling judicial travesty

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Russia defies its own puppet court to further torment blind and disabled political prisoner

Russia’s reprisals against Oleksandr Sizikov have been relentless and brutal, with blindness never treated as impediment to surreal charges and planted literature which Sizikov could not read

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

75-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev is facing a massive sentence he can't survive for a 'crime' that never happened

The elderly Ukrainian, whose civic activism would have made him an obvious target, is being held in horrific conditions and denied even the most fundamental health care

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mass detentions four times as Crimean Tatar delegation heads to Moscow demanding justice

Russia is, yet again repeating Soviet ways in its persecution of Crimean Tatars, with the efforts to stop the Crimean Tatars from reaching Moscow both profoundly lawless and, ultimately, futile

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Remembrance of the Holodomor banned, but not crushed, in Russian-occupied Ukraine

In remembering the victims of a terrible act of genocide, please remember also those on occupied territory who continue to honour their memory despite the real threat of Russian repression

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Russian invaders’ ‘court’ sentences Ukrainian to 12.5 years for patriotism

Russia claims that donations to the defenders of one's country constitute 'crimes' aimed against the 'security' of the Russian Federation

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Freedom of conscience and religion

70-year-old Crimean Jehovah’s Witness convicted of ‘organizing an extremist organization’ for practising her faith

“Real freedom is not the place you are in, but the presence of truth inside you”  Tamara Bratseva stated during her ‘trial’ in response to the prosecutor’s demand of a real 6-year sentence

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Russia kills two 16-year-olds, tortures and imprisons three other lads from occupied Melitopol

With appalling cynicism, the Russians claimed that Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak had blown themselves with a homemade explosive device when they had been in Russian captivity for 10 months