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• 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

• Children’s rights • War crimes

Ukrainian kids from occupied Melitopol indoctrinated and enlisted in Russia’s ‘Youth Army’

The current regime in Russia devotes huge effort and means to trying to convince Ukrainian children that they must wish to fight and ‘defend’ the aggressor state.

Russia’s use of ‘evacuated’ Kherson residents as human shields is a war crime

On Russian war crimes and possible genocide in its war against Ukraine and the questionable behaviour of the Russian Red Cross

Russia reserves housing and warmth for its military and collaborators in devastated Mariupol

In Mariupol tens of thousands of residents have no heating and are forced to stand in queues for many hours just to receive bread or some hot food.

• War crimes • Research

Genocide and the acts defined by that crime: Some thoughts

The deliberate actions of the enemy’s forces in Ukraine, its missile attacks on civilian targets and crucial infrastructure, and intentional mass murder together point to a single goal: genocide.

• Penal institutions

Ukraine’s penitentiary institutions and the war

With the onset of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine some of the country’s most vulnerable institutions, its detention centres and corrective colonies, found themselves in a precarious position. This article examines the past and present situation of Ukraine’s penitentiary system and recommends legal and practical measures for its greater safety.

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

Russian FSB attaches electric currents to genitals to force abducted Ukrainian to sign multiple ‘confessions’

Yaroslav Zhuk, a volunteer from Melitopol (Zaporizhzhia oblast) who was taken hostage by the Russian invaders in June this year, has revealed harrowing details of the torture he was subjected to

UK law firm launches legal action against Russia’s Wagner mercenaries over terrorism and war crimes in Ukraine

The UK-based law firm McCue Jury & Partners has served notice of legal action against Yevgeny Prigozhin and the notorious unit of Russian mercenaries, the ‘Wagner Group’] whom he controls and finances

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB ‘find’ explosives because they couldn’t force abducted Ukrainian civic journalist to ‘confess’ to treason

The ‘trial’ is underway in Russian-occupied Crimea of Iryna Danilovych, the Ukrainian nurse, human rights defender and civic journalist who disappeared for almost 13 days after being taken prisoner by the FSB

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Abducted and tortured Ukrainian naval captain declares hunger strike in Russian captivity

Oleksiy Kiselyov, former commander of the Ukrainian Navy’s Slavutych Command Ship, has gone on hunger strike in the Simferopol SIZO [remand prison] where Russia is illegally holding him prisoner

Russian invaders install terror methods of censorship in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

Less than a month after a fake ‘referendum’ fabricated pro-Russian unanimity, the invaders have announced that they will be checking people’s telephones in search of subscriptions to Ukrainian Telegram channels

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