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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and his Viasna colleagues sentenced to heavy prison terms in Belarus

This unjust punishment comes in retaliation for 25 years of their human rights work in Belarus

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

'Court' in Russian-occupied Crimea passes long sentences against three Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses

The Russian occupation ‘Yalta municipal court’ has convicted four Jehovah’s Witnesses of preposterous charges based solely on the Ukrainians’ faith, with three men sentenced to long terms of imprisonment

• Events

Russia sends convicted prisoner mercenaries to fight in Ukraine and imposes up to 15-year sentences for ‘discrediting’ them

A bill being rushed through parliament extends the scope of draconian legislation criminalizing telling the truth about Russia's war against Ukraine to cover hardened criminals recruited as mercenaries from Russian prisons

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

Russia seeks 12-year sentence against Crimean Tatar claiming 'terrorism' in a religious discussion 7 years ago

A Russian prosecutor has demanded that Ametkhan Abdulvapov be sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment although Russia’s FSB have themselves, effectively, demonstrated the absurdity of the charges against the Crimean Tatar

• Events

Belarusian partisans destroy Russian war plane and other courageous acts obstructing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Belarusian partisans have, seemingly, pulled off the biggest act of sabotage of Russia’s war against Ukraine, with a Russian A-50 early warning and control aeroplane either destroyed or very severely damaged

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘When there’s nothing left, it’s scary’ (Moshchun resident Antonina Soloviova)

The house of Antonina, a pensioner from Moshchun, was destroyed by a Russian bomb. The children did not immediately tell her about it, but a week later, “they brought the news with a sedative.”

• War crimes

Izium mass graves and torture as ‘a microcosm of Russian atrocities’ in occupied Ukraine

47 civilians, many of them children, were killed in just one of the missile strikes on Izium, in Kharkiv oblast, that Russia continues to claim it is directing only at military targets

• Freedom of expression

Ukraine’s new Media Law is ‘soaked in censorship,’ expert says

“The state should not be the supervisor controlling the flow of information that comes to the people because the people stay above the state.”

• Publicistics

In an atmosphere of evil. Arkady Davarov — switching fields of energy

The social atmosphere is invisible and surrounds us as the air we breathe. And just like air, not only it supports life, but it could also poison it.

• War crimes

Russian invaders abduct and torture Kung-Fu master and four other Ukrainians for fantasy ‘international terrorism trial'

Five Ukrainians from Melitopol were abducted by the Russians in early April, and are facing charges of ‘intentional terrorism’ over an alleged plan to blow up a truck carrying humanitarian supplies.

• War crimes

Russia used prohibited cluster munitions for horrific attack on Kramatorsk Railway Station

Russia’s attack on the Kramatorsk Railway Station on 8 April 2022 was “a violation of the laws of war and an apparent war crime”, Human Rights Watch has concluded in an important study

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Planes and helicopters dropped shells in the garden’ (Moshchun resident Tetiana Shyrant)

Tetiana Shyrant lived in the Moshchun with a large family in the house her parents built in 1963. Unfortunately, their home was destroyed, and later everything burned to the ground. Tetiana admits that she has no plans for the future.

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