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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia abducts and imprisons Crimean Tatar, then tries to mobilize him for its war against Ukraine

The prison in Russia where Ruslan Osmanov is illegally imprisoned is trying to force him to accept Russian citizenship and fight against his own country

• War crimes

"Ukraine must suffer" - Kremlin propagandist gloats over Russia’s murderous missile attack on Dnipro tower block

Russian propagandist Sergei Mardan has openly spoken of ‘pleasure’ at Russia’s missile attack on an apartment block in Dnipro that killed at least forty Ukrainians, including three children

• On refugees

Ukraine orders deportation of ethnic Ukrainian facing persecution in Russia for opposing Putin and the war

Ukraine’s Migration Service first stripped Roman of his Ukrainian citizenship and is now trying to forcibly deport him, although he faces near certain arrest in Russia

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘War on four paws’ — Serhii Neboha’s personal war

A vast number of animals have suffered since the beginning of the full-scale Russian aggression. Cynologist Serhii Neboha helps his colleagues save dogs and talks about the problems of evacuation, cases of cruelty to animals, and the destruction of kennels.

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

The Face of Russian terror against Crimean Tatars

Crimean Tatar Imam and civic activist gets 17-year sentence for talking about religion in his home 7 years ago

• War crimes

Russia abducts and tortures Kherson official and his family for serving Ukraine

Serhiy Barchuk, Deputy Head of the Kherson regional branch of the Pension Fund, his father, stepmother, uncle and a close friend of the family have been imprisoned since July

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

Two effective death sentences in Russia’s most savage attack on Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists

A Russian court has sentenced five Crimean Tatar recognized political prisoners to 13 years’ imprisonment, despite knowing that for two of the men, 60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov and Servet Gaziev (62) this is a death sentence

• War crimes

Mariupol children forced to entertain and ‘thank’ the Russian soldiers who shattered their childhood

Children and young people in Russian-devastated Mariupol have been forced to perform in front of Russian soldiers, with parents threatened with serious consequences if their children did not take part in this cynical farce

• The right to liberty and security   • War crimes

Ukrainian researcher savagely tortured for ‘confession to treason’ against Russian proxy ‘Donetsk republic’

51-year-old hostage Olena Piekh urgently needs medical intervention, not least because of the electric shocks, the screws twisted into her knees, asphyxiation and mock executions used to force her ‘confession to treason and spying’

• War crimes

Wagner PMC convicted killers ‘get clean slate, freedom and pardon' for fighting Russia’s war against Ukraine

Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia’s notorious Wagner ‘private military company’, has made public a video which claims to show the first group of convicted criminals who have returned to Russian and been ‘pardoned’ after being sent to kill in Ukraine.

• War crimes

UN disbands Russian-blocked ‘fact-finding mission’ into mass killing of Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka prison

The UN Secretary-General has effectively confirmed that no investigation will be carried out into the violent deaths of a huge number of Ukrainian prisoners of war held at a notorious prison in occupied Olenivka

• War crimes

Russia abducted, usually tortured, over a thousand civilians, including children in Kherson oblast alone

Those held hostage by the invaders have included children as young as 14, with Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsperson reporting that some were tortured.