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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia seeks 18-year sentence in conveyor belt ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar Crimean Solidarity activist

A Russian prosecutor has demanded an 18-year sentence against Marlen Mustafayev, a civic activist who had previously faced persecution for protesting against the politically motivated prosecutions of other Crimean Tatars

• Voices of war • Interview

‘My mom wanted to take poison, but she learned from a letter that we were alive.’ The story of a doctor from Mariupol, part 2

“After leaving Mariupol, we listened for 10 minutes to the birds singing and the grass rustling, and then we cried for a long time,” recalls children's doctor Hanna Shevchyk.

UN demands Russia pays Ukraine reparations as probe into Kherson war crimes begins

The UN resolution comes after eight months of deliberate and massive damage to entire Ukrainian regions, to critical infrastructure and the environment, as well as a huge death toll

• other • Events

No end to Russia’s brutal reprisals against imprisoned 66-year-old historian of the Soviet Terror

Yury Dmitriev, world-renowned Russian historian, head of the Karelia branch of the Memorial Society and political prisoner, is spending his fourth term in a punishment cell in the space of just two months

Russia loots 15 thousand artworks, medical equipment and anything that can be plundered from Kherson oblast

In retreating from Kherson, the Russian invaders stole around 15 thousand artworks, as well as medical equipment and the usual range of household items, from toilets to washing machines

Ukrainian writer and civic activist abducted and tortured for Russian propaganda video

Eight months after Serhiy Tsyhipa, a writer, journalist, and civic activist from Nova Kakhovka (Kherson oblast) was abducted by the Russian invaders, it has been learned that he is being held prisoner in occupied Crimea

Russians brutally tortured and sometimes killed Ukrainian civilians in village school in Kherson oblast

Survivors of seven months of Russia’s occupation of Bilyaivka have spoken of the destruction and filth that the invaders left, and their torture and killing of men they took prisoner

Kherson journalist, imprisoned by the Russians, tells of killing, rape and torture of hostages

Anzhela Slobodian, a journalist from TV ‘Ukraina’ has described the month she spent in Russian captivity in occupied Kherson, and the torture of hostages they were aware of

• The right to liberty and security

Former child hostage spends 7th birthday in Russian captivity for wanting to live in free Ukraine

Bohdan Kovalchuk was just 17 when he was taken prisoner by Russian-controlled Donbas militants

• Voices of war • Interview

She found out she was pregnant the day Russia invaded

Previously, we published and translated into English an account of the everyday life of a doctor in a bomb shelter. But in fact, the story of doctor Hanna Shevchyk is larger. After the start of the war in Mariupol, her family moved to a bomb shelter under a candy factory. Soon Russians arrived.

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

Russian court willing to kill 60-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner, heart attack or not

60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov suffered a heart attack on 27 October in the Russian SIZO [remand prison], where the recognized political prisoner is held despite his life-threatening medical condition

Russia destroys or damages over 1100 Ukrainian hospitals and plunders others

Analysts report that Russia’s attacks on hospitals are deliberate policy and reflect the aggressor state’s overall strategy against Ukraine

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