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Ukrainians tortured into ‘confessing’ to killing collaborators in Russian-occupied Berdiansk

Russia’s FSB [security service] claim to have ‘thwarted’ a new attack on a collaborator in occupied Berdiansk and captured those responsible for the deaths of several Russian-installed officials

• War crimes   • Events

Journalist sentenced to six years for reporting Russia’s bloodiest war crime in Mariupol

A Russian court has sentenced journalist and human rights activist Maria Ponomarenko to six years’ imprisonment for a post on Telegram about Russia’s bombing of the Drama Theatre in Mariupol on 16 March 2022

• War crimes

Russia begins grotesque show trial of abducted Ukrainian war veteran

Pavlo Zaporozhets joined Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, after Russia’s invasion of Kherson, and was serving in that capacity when seized by the Russians on 9 May 2022

• Events

Prayers for Peace are Forbidden: a Digest of Russian Protests

The priest Ioann Koval replaced the word “victory” with the word “peace” in a special prayer about “Holy Russia”. Soon he was forbidden from leading any services.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The windows were blown out, frames and all’ (Vasyl Markhonos, Borodianka)

During the bombardment of Borodianka, Vasyl hid in a neighbor's cellar. Then, one day he decided to go home and cook some food. At that moment, a shell hit his house. It burned so that everything around melted.

• War crimes

Russia forces parents in occupied Ukraine to take Russian citizenship or lose their children

A major part of Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine lies in brainwashing Ukrainian children and trying to convince them that they are ‘Russians’.

• War crimes

47 days of Russian captivity and torture for pro-Ukrainian graffiti

Andriy Andriushchenko spent 47 days imprisoned and tortured by the Russians for graffiti

• The right to life   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia tortures Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov to death

60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov died in a Russian prison on 10 February 2023, almost four years after he was first arrested on fabricated charges and, in violation even of Russian law, placed in detention

• Events

Belarusian 'railway partisans' receive 22-year sentences for obstructing Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

A closed court in Belarus has passed two more 22-year sentences on two men whose actions probably helped prevent Russia from succeeding in taking Kyiv in the first month of its full-scale invasion.

• Civic society

What did the media team of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group deal with in 2022?

A text about the biggest media projects we launched in 2022 and the people who bring them to life.

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Court sentences conscientious objector to a year in jail

Court in Ivano-Frankivsk rejected the appeal of 46 yo. Christian Vitalii Alekseienko, who appealed the sentence. “I told the court I agree that I have broken the law of Ukraine, but I am not guilty under the law of God,” commented Alekseienko.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Grads maneuvered between our houses and shelled Mariupol’. The story of Roman

The Russian military stole Roman’s car and later returned it without registration plates. The street near his dacha (summer cottage) was “crammed with Kamaz trucks” carrying Russian military men who admitted they had come to earn extra money for a car.