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• The right to a fair trial

Switzerland: Federal Prosecutor’s Office opens Investigation into attack of Swiss Journalist in Ukraine

On March 26, 2023, the spokesperson for the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG), confirmed in a press article that criminal proceedings were being initiated for the attack against Swiss press reporter Guillaume Briquet by an alleged Russian commando, and that further investigation will be carried out.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The shells flew without end...’

Valentyna Tulintseva, a resident of Severodonetsk, worked at the design institute “Chemical technologies”. She was forced to evacuate with her cancer-sick sister, grandson, and beloved dog from the city where she had everything.

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

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights activists to 19 years for exposing its repression in occupied Crimea

These are the first five sentences passed in Russia’s worst offensive to date against the Crimean Tatar human rights movement, with journalist Remzi Bekirov and human rights defender Riza Izetov sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment without any crime

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witness faces 10-year sentence for studying the Bible in Russian-occupied Crimea

A second criminal charge has been laid against 53-year-old Dmytro Naukhatsky in Russian-occupied Crimea, with the Jehovah’s Witness now facing up to ten years imprisonment solely for practising his faith

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

Blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner hospitalized, delaying Russia’s attempt to sentence him to 18 years

Russia has already tortured one Crimean Tatar political prisoner to death and is directly threatening the lives of at least two others, and this may well be only a ‘stay of execution’ in Oleksandr Sizikov’s case

• War crimes

The Russians “treat torture as entertainment” – Enerhodar Deputy Mayor held hostage for almost a year

Ivan Samoidiuk, First Deputy Mayor of Enerhodar, was the first of many Ukrainian civilians from Enerhodar to be taken prisoner by the Russian invaders

• War crimes

Children 'beaten for supporting Ukraine'. Seventeen kids returned after being held in Russian-occupied Crimea

Seventeen Ukrainian children have been rescued and returned to their families, after a supposed ‘summer camp’ in Russian-occupied Crimea turned into six months effective captivity

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean lecturer dismissed, beaten and jailed for Ukrainian songs gets new sentence over a post about Russia’s killing of civilians

A ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has found Andriy Bielozierov guilty of ‘repeated public actions aimed at discrediting Russia’s armed forces’ through a post on social media about Russia’s bombing and killing of civilians

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB come for elderly Crimean Tatar National Congress delegate in hunt for ‘saboteurs’

Russia has openly targeted Crimean Tatars over the last month, with the search and detention of Mustafa Mustafayev one of two occasions where delegates of the Crimean Tatar Qurultay were singled out

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean radio enthusiast with a flag of Ukraine sentenced to 12 years on fake ‘spying’ charges

While Russia imposes total secrecy on such ‘trials’, there is every reason to assume that 35-year-old Stanislav Stetsenko is yet another victim of the Russian regime’s spy mania in occupied Crimea.

• Voices of war   • Interview

People knocked on the train doors and begged: ‘Let us in; we are with the children!’

During the bombing of Kramatorsk in 2014, Valentyna Bondarenko suffered a stroke. Eight years later, two seniors barely squeezed into an overcrowded train to evacuate from their hometown, heavily shelled again by Russian troops.

• Events

Ukrainian officials prevent former political prisoner held in Russia from returning to Ukraine

After being seized by the Russian FSB, savagely tortured and imprisoned for six and a half years, all Andriy Zakhtei wants is to get back to Ukraine, to his wife and their daughter

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