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Russia passes massive sentences against 15 Ukrainian POWs for defending Ukraine against its invasion

Using a ruling issued long after the prisoners of war were seized and then put on ‘trial’, Russia claimed that their defence of their country was ‘terrorism’ and ‘a violent attempt to seize power’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Menacing threats against human rights defender Lutfiye Zudiyeva after Russia’s arrests of four Crimean Tatar women

Russia is demonstratively showing that nobody is safe from persecution and terror in occupied Crimea and silence from the international community only increases the danger for those, like Lutfiye Zudiyeva, unwilling to be silenced

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Abducted Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant engineer sentenced to 16 years on grotesque ‘treason’ charges

55-year-old Ruslan Lavryk now urgently needs hospitalization, with the Russians having doubtless tortured him, as they have many other employees from the nuclear power plant under their occupation

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Courageous protest and disturbing silence over terrifying Russian attack on Crimean Tatar women

International protest is vital with Russia clearly sending a message that nobody is safe from being seized in armed raids and imprisoned for decades without any crime

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Four Crimean Tatar women could face 20-year sentences in new wave of Russian terror in occupied Crimea

This is a terrifying escalation in Russian repression, with Russia now targeting women, including mothers and very young students

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Crimean Tatar political prisoner rearrested to die in Russian captivity after release because of cancer

Russia has demonstrated contempt for its own laws, by so dooming Lenur Khalilov to die a painful death in the inhuman conditions of a Russian prison, thousands of kilometres from his family

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Russia sentences abducted Crimean to 15 years in second secret ‘trial’ on same absurd charges

Had there been grounds for charging Serhiy Lykhomanov with ‘treason’ and ‘terrorism’, the FSB would not have held him incommunicado, without a lawyer, for almost two years and staged two ‘trials’

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Ukrainian mother sentenced to five years for helping her family survive and escape Russian occupation

The unwarranted charges and sentence for supposed collaboration send a chilling message to all those Ukrainians waiting for liberation after long years of Russian occupation

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

From enforced disappearance to imprisonment: Anatoliy Kobzar found after 19 months of Russian lies

Russia’s methods in occupied Crimea are becoming ever more brazenly lawless, however the FSB’s abduction of Anatoliy Kobzar and silence for close on 2 years is particularly shocking

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Symbolic 'execution of enemies of Russia’ in a school in occupied Donetsk oblast

The action, especially the teachers’ willingness to ‘execute’ whichever ‘enemies’ they were told to target , is chilling

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia uses citizenship as a new weapon against dissidents in occupied Crimea

Russia’s stripping of citizenship was first used in Soviet times, but is now even more cynical, as an invading power is banning Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians from their own homeland

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Ukrainian in Russia for her brother’s funeral sentenced to 12 years for 16 donations to Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Tetiana Omelchenko is one of a mounting number of Ukrainians sentenced to horrific terms of imprisonment merely for supporting the Armed Forces defending Ukraine