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

Russia effectively sentences veteran Crimean Tatar activist to death for somebody else’s voice on a tape

A second Russian court has found no problem in passing an effective death sentence, without any crime and without the defendant’s voice even on the tape of an innocuous conversation presented as ‘evidence’ against him

• The right to a fair trial

Volodymyr Panasenko, victim of Ukraine’s most egregious miscarriage of justice, freed after over 16 years

A Ukrainian court has finally released Volodymyr Panasenko after well over 16 years in prison for a crime that nobody ever believed he had committed

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

Crimean Tatar activist sentenced to 18 years for discussing religion and Russian repression

Only Moscow wins when the horrific sentences passed against innocent men, like Ernes Seitosmanov pass without adequate protest

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

Armed Russian FSB violently arrest peaceful Jehovah’s Witness in occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB have arrested 31-year-old Jehovah’s Witness Maksym Zinchenko in occupied Feodosia bringing to 23 the number of Ukrainians in occupied Crimea either serving sentences or facing ‘trial’ purely for practising their faith

• War crimes

Russian ‘Big Brother surveillance’intensified in occupied Mariupol

The technology may be 21st century, but Russia is certainly reinstating Soviet-style censorship, surveillance and denunciations

• Events

New arrest on grotesque criminal charges in Russia’s attack on Perm Memorial and historical memory

This is the latest of a series of attacks on Memorial, targeted not only for its commitment to uncovering historical truth, but for its unwavering position on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and on Ukrainian political prisoners

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘A soldier must be a coward and, when necessary, a hero’

Oleksandr, the code name “Typhoon”, has been fighting since the age of 24. Having survived captivity after Ilovaisk, he will not be captured again.

• War crimes

Invaders remove Ukrainian from schools under Russian occupation, and want to eliminate English

The Russian invaders use all forms of terror and pressure to remove Ukrainian from schools, and may well want to go further than the USSR and get rid of the English language also

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB force Crimean Tatar to sign blank 'confessions' to railway sabotage or “never see his family again”

Russia is continuing to extract fictitious 'confessions' through abductions with police or FSB victims held incommunicado, with every reason to fear for their lives

• Civic society

International Memorial Association Statement

On February 22, 2022, International Memorial was dissolved by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. But, as we see, Memorial cannot be “dissolved”, just as a human being cannot be deprived of their innate ability to keep memories and reflect.

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

Russia upholds 14-year prison sentences for Crimean Tatar human rights activism

That justice could not be expected was clear from the day Russia launched its worst attack on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement to date, arresting 25 civic journalists and activists

• War crimes

Moscow planned the forced deportation of Ukrainians to Russia even before its full-scale invasion

Russia’s ‘legalization’ of forced deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory on 18 May is only the latest step in policy that was clearly planned from the beginning, a report has demonstrated ‘

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