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

Russia sentences blind and disabled Ukrainian to 17 years for discussing politics and religion

A Russian court has passed huge sentences against three Crimean Muslims on essentially ‘thought crime’ charges, with the longest sentence against a man who is blind and could not have read the books which the FSB planted in his home as ‘evidence’.

• Voices of war   • Interview

There is brotherhood in ‘Azov’

Ruslan, a fighter from the “Azov” brigade, speaks about his way to “Azov”, a book that changed his worldview, an actual image of Ukraine, and a feeling of support and victory.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia conceals diagnosis after effectively torturing abducted civic journalist for over six months

Iryna Danilovich is in constant agonizing pain which the occupation prison authorities have been ignoring for over seven months

• War crimes

Moscow moves to legislate forced deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory to Russia

Moscow is repeating policy used under Stalin to destroy the Ukrainian identity of areas currently under occupation and to deport those who refuse to be ‘Russified’

• War crimes

Ukrainian volunteer tortured by Russian FSB to fake evidence for ‘international terrorism’ show trial

Ukrainian volunteer Yuriy Kayov was tortured in Russian captivity for two months, during part of which time a young child was also imprisoned and taken to the torture room

• other

Russia escalates torture conditions against imprisoned Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal

There seems every reason to assume that the new torment is also part of Moscow’s revenge against a man whose courage and moral fibre it cannot understand or break

• War crimes

Fake ‘evacuation’ from Zaporizhzhia oblast to move Russian forces and conceal war crimes

The effective deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory is being used to mask Russia’s movement of personnel and hardware and to hide its war crimes

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

Russia seizes and plunders central Cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

The Russian occupation regime has called its forced seizure and looting of the central body of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea “liberation”

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

Russian court helps prosecution fake evidence in ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar civic activist

In a Russian political trial the court looks the other way even when the FSB’s ‘secret witness’ proves incapable of recognizing the defendant

• Events

Liquidating the SOVA Center: The Official End of Religious Freedom in Russia

By destroying the leading organization monitoring religious liberty violations, the Putin regime can no longer pretend that relics of freedom of religion remain in Russia.

• War crimes

Russian invaders abduct Ukrainian volunteer caring for elderly grandmother in occupied Melitopol

This is the second time that Illya Yenin has been abducted by the Russians and there are strong grounds for fearing that torture is being used to extract some kind of surreal 'confession'

• Voices of war   • Interview

A small loaf of gray bread, a quarter for each family

Iryna Kravchenko is a resident of Rubizhne. In 2014, the invaders retreated, leaving behind devastation and mined forests. In 2022, they returned and practically destroyed the city.

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