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Long sentences passed on ‘Redut’ mercenaries fighting Russia’s war against Ukraine with Finnish citizen’s funding

Three mercenaries have received long sentences in Ukraine in trials that Finland should be following as their citizen, Gennady Timchenko, is believed to be financing the Redut mercenary unit, linked closely with Russia’s defence ministry

Disabled Kherson volunteer tortured by Russian invaders for insane propaganda confession to ‘spying for Ukraine’

The Russians who invaded and occupied Mykola Petrovsky's home are in all seriousness charging the 28-year-old Ukrainian volunteer with ‘spying for Ukraine’ and threatening a sentence of up to 20 years’ imprisonment

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean journalist prosecuted and declared a ‘foreign agent’ for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

While planning to legislate 'impunity' for war crimes committed ‘in Russia’s interests’, Russia and its puppets in occupied Crimea are aggressively fining or imprisoning those who write of the war crimes, or simply say ‘no to war’.

‘Cities speak’ — Digest of Russian Protests

Students from the St Petersburg Academy of Arts paint anti-war works, rather than pictures on the topic ‘Donbas’ or ‘Soldier’s Mother’. People continue to bring flowers to spontaneous memorials in honour of those killed in Dnipro, while anti-war graffiti and stickers appear on Russian city streets.

Russians abduct, torture and imprison young Crimean Tatar from Kherson oblast, then come for his father

Khalil Kurtamet has not been seen since he was seized by the Russian invaders of Novooleksiivka in Kherson oblast on 8 January 2023, almost six months after Russia also abducted his son

It's back to the USSR as Russia tries to destroy Ukrainian identity on occupied territory

The Russian invaders claim to be eradicating “Ukrainian Nazi ideologists’ by changing the Ukrainian ‘Jewish St’ to the name of a Soviet communist, and removing a Crimean Tatar WWII hero

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

Russia challenged over Crimean Tatar civic journalist’s death sentence

Representatives of at least five European countries have attended the first appeal hearing in Moscow against horrifically long sentences passed on four recognized Crimean Tatar political prisoners

• The right to a fair trial

Court in Ukraine passes life sentence on a young Roma with an alibi whose arrest triggered Loshchynivka anti-Roma riots

The trial of Mykhailo Chebotar whose arrest in Loshchynivka triggered appalling anti-Roma riots has ended in a life sentence despite Chebotar’s alibi, apparently faked evidence and other very serious concerns

Statement concerning HRW report on the use of landmines in Ukraine

We are convinced that posting of such a report may bring more significant harm than benefits. We attempted to stop this by contacting HRW. However, our efforts were in vain.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

'Lawyer' who collaborated with Russian FSB's torture of Crimean Tatar political prisoners faces disciplinary proceedings

Oleg Glushko simply watched on while the men he should have been representing were tortured by the FSB and actively took part in getting them to give false testimony

Russia deports Ukrainian children to orphanage in occupied Crimea condemned as a ‘concentration camp’

An independent Russian website has tracked down fourteen very small children abducted from Kherson while it was under Russian occupation and passed to a children’s home in occupied Crimea which was described in 2020 as “a children’s concentration camp”.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘If I am to die, then only in my homeland’ (Izium resident Tamara Shehin)

Volunteer of the Red Cross of Ukraine — Tamara Shehin spent four months in the occupied Izium. She talks about how the Russians dropped cluster bombs on the city, shot down cars, and tormented people.

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