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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia detains and prosecutes elderly activists for flying the Crimean Tatar Flag

While the rest of Ukraine celebrated Crimean Tatar National Flag Day, the Russian occupation regime came up with preposterous charges against two Crimean Tatars simply for flying the flag on their cars

• The right to life

Ukraine passes long sentences against former top official over savage killing of Kherson activist Kateryna Handziuk

Almost five years after a horrific acid attack on Kateryna Handziuk, a first-instance court in Kyiv has sentenced Vladyslav Manher to 10 years on a charge of commissioning the crime

• War crimes

Russian invaders kill two Ukrainian teenagers after torturing them as suspected rail partisans

There are serious discrepancies in Russia’s claim that 16-year-old Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov were killed ‘in a shootout’

• War crimes

Russia begins surreal ‘international terrorism trial’ after abducting and torturing five Ukrainians from occupied Melitopol

Yet another ‘trial’ with predetermined outcome has begun with five Ukrainians accused by the Russian aggressor state of ‘international terrorism’ and facing sentences of up to life imprisonment

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My husband and daughter wanted to get to Brovary on foot’

Valentyna Bas, a resident of Zalissia village, went to work in Brovary on 8 March. On the same day, her village was occupied by the Russians. The woman tried in vain to rescue her family. In desperation, Valentyna's husband and daughter decided to walk to Brovary, but Russian soldiers detained them.

• War crimes

Russian court finds defending Ukraine was ‘terrorist activity’, passes 16-year sentence on former Ukrainian soldier

A Russian court has sentenced former Ukrainian soldier Denys Muryha to 16 years’ imprisonment on extraordinarily cynical charges

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

Crimean Tatar prisoner of conscience and victim of FSB torture urgently hospitalized in Russia

Emir-Usein Kuku, a recognized prisoner of conscience, has faced serious kidney problems since an attempted Russian abduction turned into ‘arrest’ after a crowd thwarted the FSB’s plans

• Voices of war   • Interview

In the shelter, my daughter cared for her toy

Olena Poliakova is from Kharkiv, Saltivka [a large residential district]. She talks about the courage of the eleventh graders who rushed to help the victims. About life under shelling in the school basement. About the driver who took a chance and miraculously evacuated them to the station. Despite the nightmare she survived, the trauma, and two surgeries, she hopes that Kharkiv will recover and become even better.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Four Crimeans sentenced in FSB remake of Russia's first Ukrainian show trial against Oleh Sentsov

The sentences were largely based on a denunciation from Oleksandr Pirogov, 8 years after he played a similar role in the trial of Oleh Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko

• The right to liberty and security   • Events

Ukrainian partisan captured and savagely tortured in Donbas put ‘on trial’ in Russia

The ‘trial’ is underway at the court Russia uses for political trials of Ukrainian citizens of Hryhory Sinchenko who almost died from the torture he was subjected to by Russia’s proxy ‘Donetsk republic’

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

Russia passes record 20-year sentence in revenge for Crimean Solidarity human rights defence

This is the worst sentence to date against a Crimean Tatar political prisoner and comes as Russia is increasingly releasing men convicted of real crimes, if they agree to fight in Ukraine

• War crimes

Ukrainian Jewish leaders demolish Putin’s lies about Zelensky and 'denazification'

Vladimir Putin’s new attempt to call Ukraine’s President a “disgrace to the Jewish people” has been dismissed, like all his efforts since 2014 to justify Russia's aggression against Ukraine