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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Ukrainian political prisoner abducted and given a new sentence after 8 years in Russian prison

Hennadiy Lymeshko had been held incommunicado for six months, with the FSB typically using such isolation to torture its victims

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Mariupol teenager sentenced to 7 years for supposed ‘treason’ against Russia in supporting Ukraine

Oleksandr Syrov was 14 when the Russians began bombing and besieging his native Mariupol. Three years later, the FSB came for him, accusing him of ‘treason’ and ‘spying’ for Ukraine

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Prisoners beaten, threatened with new sentences to force them to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

Moscow needs cannon fodder, and when takers cannot be found who’ll agree to risk their lives for money and their freedom, other methods are applied

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Melitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko abducted in 2023 ‘found’ imprisoned in Russian-occupied Donetsk

Although there is now talk of a ‘trial’, there is nothing to suggest that the Russian FSB have even formally charged the journalist despite having held her prisoner since May 2023

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Abductions of Ukrainian Women and Girls

ADC Memorial and KhPG submitted analytical material to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances.

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Silence—as a form of torture

How and why Russia deliberately deprives Ukrainian prisoners of any information from the Motherland.

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Ukrainian political prisoner vanishes after being abducted by FSB instead of released from Russian prison

It is almost five months since all contact was lost with Hennadiy Lymeshko, and there are real grounds for fearing that the FSB are holding him somewhere and torturing him

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean couple could face life sentences for resistance to Russia's war against Ukraine

It is likely that Serhiy Kozlov and Yevhenia Samoilova were held incommunicado for over a year before charges were laid, with the only ‘crime’ that allegedly took place being a clear act of opposition to Russia’s war against Ukraine

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Russia resettles ‘veterans’ and their families in occupied Ukraine, while deporting Ukrainians

The chief aim is probably to change the ethnic makeup and instal people more likely than Ukrainians to be loyal to the Russian invaders

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Russian invaders abduct young Ukrainian, sentence her to 12.5 years for helping Ukraine

By the end of 2024, almost a third of the massive number of Russian 'treason' convictions were against Ukrainians living on Ukrainian territory, but forced by the invading state to take its citizenship

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Abducted Crimean Tatar father sentenced to 13 years for 'anti-Russian posts' and opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Ismail Shemshedinov’s infant daughter was just three months old when Russian FSB burst into their home and took Ismail away, hiding him until this latest of multiple sentences for supposed ‘treason’

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Children abducted and held for months until their fathers agree to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

While forcing fathers to fight by imprisoning their children as hostages may plummet new depths, Russia’s methods aimed at forcing Ukrainian to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine are also shockingly cynical and evil