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Young Crimean Tatar held hostage in Russia after trying to visit her gravely ill father in occupied Crimea

Russian officials have fabricated one administrative arrest after another to keep 25-year-old Leniye Umerova imprisoned, and there are fears that they may be planning to concoct criminal charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Lawyers on Russian FSB hitlist for defending Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Rustem Kyamilev and his wife, Lilia Hemedzhy are not alone in seeing Russia’s FSB as behind this new act of repression against independent lawyers in occupied Crimea, with the role played by the ‘Crimean Bar Association’ particularly disturbing

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Russia plans life sentences for charges used against Ukrainian political prisoners and opponents of its war in Ukraine

While Russia is releasing men convicted of grave crimes if they agree to fight in Ukraine, it is introducing new legislation radically increasing the sentences often used against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

• 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.

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