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• Freedom of conscience and religion   • War crimes

First criminal charges and imprisonment for studying the Bible in Russian-occupied Donbas

While next to nothing is known about this latest victim of Russian persecution on occupied territory, the case is disturbing as it is likely to be Russia's test run of religious persecution, with more arrests almost certain to follow

• Against torture and ill-treatment   • War crimes

Russia confirms torture is state policy through withdrawal from vital European Convention

Russia’s withdrawal from a Convention against Torture which it stopped complying with even minimally in 2022 will not absolve it from liability for its violations, but it is a telling statement

• War crimes

Women increasingly targeted in huge sentences on ‘spying / treason’ charges in Russian-occupied Luhansk region

Even if the victims are not physically tortured, it is near certain that they were abducted, held incommunicado and not given access to independent lawyers before guaranteed 'convictions' and huge sentences on charges of surreal cynicism

• Children’s rights   • War crimes

War and ‘Russian world’ propaganda instead of learning foreign languages in schools in occupied Ukraine

Russia has already knocked out ‘defence of rights and liberties’, other ‘destructive western ideology’ and is seeking to brainwash children in occupied Ukraine that they should be ready to fight and die for Russia

• War crimes

Russia drops lethal flower petal mines in ongoing terror against civilians in Kherson

Such landmines are clearly targeting civilians as are the Russian drones with which Russia has been found to be committing crimes against humanity in Kherson and Kherson oblast

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Daily ‘treason trials’ expose Russia’s lies about mass support in occupied Crimea

The 'trial' of Serhiy Bodnarashyk was something of a record-maker for the swiftness of the sentence, but all such 'trials' are broadly identical in their secrecy and in the fact that convictions and long sentences are guaranteed

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia is killing 70-year-old Halyna Dovhopola, sentenced to 12 years for loving Ukraine

Halyna earlier wrote that she and other political prisoners are waiting and “fighting for our life, so as to not “die in Russia” behind barbed wire”, She urgently needs our help

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights defender faces new prosecution for reporting Russian repression

Russia's persecution of Lutfiye Zudiyeva began back in 2019 because the courageous Crimean Solidarity human rights defender refused to be silent about Russia's violations in occupied Crimea, The regime's new moves place her in even greater danger

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences young Crimean woman to 15 years after abducting and holding her incommunicado for ten months

This was more akin to an enforced disappearance, than an 'arrest', one of a terrifying number that Russia brought with its invasion of Crimea

• War crimes

Seven months of torture for Russian show trial of Ukrainians abducted from occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

Russia calls opposing its invasion ‘international terrorism’ , not its abduction, torture and monstrous sentences against three Ukrainians

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

Russia releases gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner after causing the death of several others

Lenur Khalilov should never have been imprisoned, and is likely to have been ill for a long time without any reaction

• War crimes   • Events

Russian court sentences Memorial Head to 6 years for calling persecuted Ukrainian POWs political prisoners

Russia will not, at least, be able to execute its sentence against Sergei Davidis, unlike the Azov POWs and hundreds of other Ukrainian prisoners of war and political prisoners

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