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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences three Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses to six years for 'threatening state security' by discussing the Bible

It was claimed that, by reading and discussing religious literature, the defendants had “committed a grave crime against the constitutional order and the security of the state”.

Bodies of more tortured victims and Russian torture chambers found in liberated parts of Kharkiv oblast

This brings to at least twenty the number of Russian prisons / torture chambers which have come to light since the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated the area in early September.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘They were trying to kill me, but I wasn't killed.’ — a story of a woman who saw the airstrike on the Drama Theater in Mariupol

52 years old Liudmyla and her dog Best have lost their home for the second time. They left Mariupol a day after the attack on the Drama Theatre. The next day their house was also destroyed.

• War crimes • Research

Mariupol, an Example of Genocide

Yevgeny Zakharov (KHPG) and Tatyana Samoderzhenkova (Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union) identify genocidal acts by Russia’s armed forces against the inhabitants of Mariupol.

Russian atrocities at Bucha may be nothing to those that will be found when Kherson is liberated

While claiming near 100% support for ‘joining Russia’ in its fake referendum, the Russian invaders are intensifying so-called ‘filtration measures’, with almost any residents in danger of being seized and / or disappearing

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimea beauty queen convicted of ‘discrediting Russia's Armed Forces' by singing a Ukrainian patriotic song’

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has fined this year’s ‘Miss Crimea’ and jailed her friend for singing the Ukrainian patriotic song ‘Chervona Kalyna’ [‘Red Kalyna, or Vibernum’].

Russia refuses to return Ukrainian children taken from Kharkiv oblast

Since the beginning of its full-scale invasion, Russia has illegally taken at least seven thousand children from their native Ukraine, with the real figure likely to be much higher.

13 children killed in Russian attack on civilian convoy in Kharkiv oblast

24 Ukrainian civilians, including a pregnant woman and 13 children, were killed on 25 September when they came under attack while trying to flee from Russian shelling

• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

EU countries turn back Crimean Tatars fleeing forced mobilization to fight Russia's war against Ukraine

A tragedy is unfolding in countries bordering the Russian Federation and Belarus with Crimean Tatars yet again in particular danger

Dead souls and infants ‘voted’ in Russia’s sham ‘referendums’ on annexing Ukrainian territory

In occupied parts of both the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, the alleged number of people who ‘voted’ in Russia’s sham ‘referendums’ on annexation far exceeded the actual number of residents

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian occupation means 14-year sentences for being Ukrainian and refusing to ‘confess’ to insane charges

Russia’s claim that almost all Ukrainians in occupied Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts ‘voted’ for annexation is not only grotesque because of the carnage and destruction Russia has brought since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Mutilated bodies in Izium mass graves and other atrocities after Russian invaders driven out

While Russia stages its sham ‘referendums’ to claim local support for it annexing occupied parts of Ukraine, investigators are continuing to uncover evidence of Russian crimes in those parts of the Kharkiv oblast which were liberated in early September.

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