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Russia ignores urgent medical condition and increases monstrous sentence against 68-year-old Halyna Bekhter for supporting Ukraine

It had seemed inappropriate to throw out unconfirmed opinions about the Ukrainian pensioner's state, however Russia's failure to react, except by increasing an already horrific sentence, leaves no choice

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Russia to indoctrinate children in occupied Ukraine with invented ‘history of Donbas & Novorossiya textbook'

Russia has added another 'textbook' to its information warfare arsenal, with this one specifically aimed at brainwashing Ukrainian children on occupied territory

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witness faces 6-year sentence on charge of ‘financing extremist activities’ for shared worship

53-year-old Volodymyr Chertov is the latest in a mounting number of believers persecuted by the Russian occupation regime for their faith

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Crimean Olha Tsyryk gets16-year sentence after blitzkrieg ‘trial’ for selfies and anti-Russian comments

No mention is made of the fact that Olha Tsyryk was abducted a year earlier and held completely incommunicado

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Crimean Tatar political prisoner returned to die in Russian captivity is in critical condition

Russia should never have imprisoned Lenur Khalilov, but its present treatment of a man who is probably dying is especially savage

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Russia stages grotesque trial for second 29-year sentence against savagely tortured Ukrainian partisan

Three political prisoners were subjected to this immensely cynical 'trial', based solely on the secret 'testimony' of two prisoners who may well have been as brutally tortured as Hryhory Sinchenko, Volodymyr Makarenko & Dmytro Papenko

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UN Committee against Racial Discrimination slams Russia’s persecution of three Crimean Tatar lawyers

Crimean Tatars make up a totally disproportionate percentage of Russia’s Crimean political prisoners, with their lawyers also consistently subjected to persecution

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Abducted 63-year-old Crimean sentenced to 19 years for support of Ukraine which Russia called ‘treason’

Russia has imposed near total secrecy over its abduction almost three years ago and 'trial with a predetermined outcome' of Oleksandr Osadchy

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Russia labels Crimean Solidarity, lawyers & journalists 'foreign agents' in new attempt to crush Crimean Tatar human rights movement

Russia has dropped all pretence after its torture, threats, administrative arrests and massive sentences on fabricated charges failed to silence the vital Crimean Solidarity movement

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On June 26, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Torture is one of the most widespread crimes committed during Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG), nearly everyone who comes under Russian control and has direct contact with Russian military personnel, government officials, law enforcement officers, or representatives of the occupation authorities or proxy administrations is subjected to torture or other forms of inhuman treatment.

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Medical torture to the end against Crimean Tatar political prisoner with malignant tumour and his family

Both Russian doctors and judges are complicit, either by omission or through direct steps, in Russia’s persecution of a Crimean Solidarity activist for his refusal to remain silent about Russian repression.

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Mariupol children brainwashed into thanking the Russian invaders for ‘saving’ them

Russia's lies and attempts to blame Ukraine for its own war crimes may be too brazen to be effective where adults are concerned. They are, however, terrifyingly effectively in the case of small children