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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Imprisoned Ukrainian civic journalist could lose hearing because of Russian brutal torment

As well as failing to provide proper treatment, a Russian occupation ‘court’ has also prevented Iryna Danilovych from preparing for the appeal hearing against a manifestly unjust sentence

• War crimes

Russian-controlled Donbas militants who tortured and murdered 16-year-old Stepan Chubenko for loving Ukraine ‘detained’

If the men’s guilt is not in doubt, there are question marks over the motives for their arrest now, since then men were detained by the Russian proxy 'republic', after Russia actively obstructed earlier attempts to bring Vadim Pogodin to justice

• The right to life   • Human Rights Violations associated with EuroMaidan

Controversial verdict over abduction, torture and killing of Euromaidan activist Yury Verbytskyy

Oleksandr Medvid has been found guilty of abducting Yury Verbytsky from hospital during the Euromaidan protests, but has been freed from serving the sentence

• The right to a fair trial

Once again, the axe was confused with the scalpel...

Comments on the new draft laws which disqualify the members of Ukrainian pro-Russian parties from being elected to legislative bodies at all levels.

• Voices of war   • Interview

My evacuation was like footage from an action movie…

The Russian military base was two hundred meters from Stepaniia Hirchak's house. Her village is located on the border of the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions. Stepaniia Stepanivna talks about spending a month in the cellar, fellow villagers supporting each other, and the night bombardments.

• Voices of war   • Interview

We survived through the help of people…

In 2014, a resident of Bakhmut, Liudmyla Chyzhova, buried two sons and a six-year-old granddaughter, whose heart could not stand the fright. In 2022, Liudmyla and her deaf-mute husband were forced to evacuate. The swift “Ikarus” [a bus] maneuvered between shelling and picked up people along the way.

• War crimes

Teenagers hunted on occupied territory as cannon fodder for Russia’s war against Ukraine

The Russians are preventing 16-17-year-olds from leaving occupied territory, with the invaders clearly just waiting for them to turn 18 when they can be ‘forced to volunteer’ to fight.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia outlaws CrimeaSOS as ‘undesirable’ for reporting its violations in occupied Crimea

Russia’s Prosecutor General has declared CrimeaSOS ‘undesirable’ in Russia and occupied Crimea, claiming that it “poses a threat to the Russian Federation’s constitutional order and security”.

• Voices of war   • Interview

War is not a sprint but a marathon

Kyiv volunteer Antonina Dembytska interviews Ukrainians who had to flee the war. To preserve the voices of witnesses for the history and future tribunal of war criminals. Here is her conversation with a resident of Vyshhorod, who stayed in the city to protect it.

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

Russia flouts UN order and begins carrying out death sentence against Crimean Tatar civic journalist

A week after it took over the presidency of the United Nations Security Council, Russia has flouted the express order of the UN’s Committee against Torture and set about killing the second Crimean Tatar political prisoner in two months

• Voices of war   • Interview

The Russians shot far and wide and destroyed children’s boarding school

According to the city council, during the year of the war, Russian troops damaged and destroyed 111 infrastructure facilities in Kramatorsk, including schools, kindergartens, and other educational institutions. Volodymyr Savchenko, a resident of the city, witnessed these events.

• War crimes

Putin ally under international arrest warrant admits that Russia stopped Mariupol child from returning to Ukraine

Lvova-Belova, who is already wanted by the International Criminal Court for illegally deporting Ukrainian children, has now admitted that a 17-year-old “was caught on the border” when he tried to return home to Ukraine