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• War crimes

Russians abduct and doubtless torture Ukrainian journalist and her husband in occupied Melitopol

Iryna and Oleksandr Levchenko are both in their sixties, but there are no grounds for believing that this would stop the Russians from using torture to extract insane ‘confessions’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Russia sentences human rights defender to 14 years for helping political prisoners seek justice from ECHR

Russia has reached “a new level of lawlessness” with its imprisonment of human rights defender Bakhrom Khamroev, with sinister methods that could well be used in occupied Crimea

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar human rights defender charged with 'discrediting' the Russian invaders on Facebook

Abdureshit Dzhepparov is accused of ‘discrediting the Russian armed forces’ over material that had nothing to do with him, as well as with ‘abusing freedom of mass information’ in occupied Crimea where Russia has eliminated all such freedom

• War crimes

Russia imposes jail or fines for correct maps of Ukraine claiming they 'violate its territorial integrity'

Russia’s State Duma has adopted a bill which envisages jail for up to 15 days or massive fines (up to one million roubles) for maps which correctly show Crimea or other occupied Ukrainian territory as part of Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Sharp increase in persecution for pro-Ukrainian position in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian occupation 'courts' are willing to convict Ukrainians of 'discrediting the Russian army' over the Ukrainian national anthem or flag, songs, or the phrase 'a peaceful sky above our head'

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

Russia effectively sentences veteran Crimean Tatar activist to death for somebody else’s voice on a tape

A second Russian court has found no problem in passing an effective death sentence, without any crime and without the defendant’s voice even on the tape of an innocuous conversation presented as ‘evidence’ against him

• The right to a fair trial

Volodymyr Panasenko, victim of Ukraine’s most egregious miscarriage of justice, freed after over 16 years

A Ukrainian court has finally released Volodymyr Panasenko after well over 16 years in prison for a crime that nobody ever believed he had committed

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

Crimean Tatar activist sentenced to 18 years for discussing religion and Russian repression

Only Moscow wins when the horrific sentences passed against innocent men, like Ernes Seitosmanov pass without adequate protest

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

Armed Russian FSB violently arrest peaceful Jehovah’s Witness in occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB have arrested 31-year-old Jehovah’s Witness Maksym Zinchenko in occupied Feodosia bringing to 23 the number of Ukrainians in occupied Crimea either serving sentences or facing ‘trial’ purely for practising their faith

• War crimes

Russian ‘Big Brother surveillance’intensified in occupied Mariupol

The technology may be 21st century, but Russia is certainly reinstating Soviet-style censorship, surveillance and denunciations

• Events

New arrest on grotesque criminal charges in Russia’s attack on Perm Memorial and historical memory

This is the latest of a series of attacks on Memorial, targeted not only for its commitment to uncovering historical truth, but for its unwavering position on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and on Ukrainian political prisoners

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘A soldier must be a coward and, when necessary, a hero’

Oleksandr, the code name “Typhoon”, has been fighting since the age of 24. Having survived captivity after Ilovaisk, he will not be captured again.

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