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Mass burial site at Izium, imprisoned teenagers and other Russian war crimes in Kharkiv oblast

Just days after the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated Balakliya, Kupiansk, Izium and other towns and villages, it is already clear that the Russians have left a trail of war crimes, and the bodies of tortured victims, throughout the Kharkiv oblast.

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Abductions and feared mass grave of Russian invaders' victims in liberated Vysokopillia (Kherson oblast)

It is already clear that the Russians abducted and tortured residents, with the fate of at least twenty still unknown.

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13-year sentence against Belarusian investigative journalist who helped expose crimes against Ukraine

Denis Ivashin played an important role in exposing the Russian fighters who first took part in Russia’s invasion of Crimea and Donbas and were later deployed to prop up the regime of Aleksander Lukashenka

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Vovchansk Engineering Works: Dungeons on the Chechen Model

​​​​​​​On Sunday, 11 September, Vovchansk was one of dozens of towns and villages liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A month ago, Iryna Skachko described the use to which its largest factory was put during months of enemy occupation.

• Freedom of expression   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Multiple jail terms for a patriotic Ukrainian song at Crimean Tatar wedding in Russian-occupied Crimea

Many commentators believe that the occupation regime is reacting with hysteria and repression to Ukrainian patriotic songs ignored throughout the occupation because they understand that their days are named

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Bodies of more civilians murdered by the Russians found in liberated Kharkiv oblast village

These are almost certainly the first of many war crimes still to be discovered, unlike Russia’s relentless bombing of civilian targets and its 11 September revenge attacks on power stations and other critical infrastructure

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Russian invaders remove Ukrainian language and literature from schools

Documents uncovered after the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated Balakliya (Kharkiv oblast) show how the occupation regime swiftly took steps to remove the Ukrainian language and literature from schools

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We are Russian citizens and are ashamed of the actions committed in our country’s name.

Statement by Oleg Orlov, Sergei Davidis, Co-Director of the Memorial Centre for the Defence of Human Rights regarding Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian power stations

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Information about Russia’s war crimes is now available in seven languages

KHPG and other Ukrainian human rights NGOs are launching a website of the T4P war crimes initiative.

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First tortured victims exhumed after Ukraine drives Russian invaders out of Kharkiv oblast village

The two men whose bodies were uncovered in Hrakove had been shot and their ears cut off

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

Crimean Tatar political prisoner sentenced to 11 years for 'kitchen conversation' about religion and politics

A Russian court has sentenced 52-year-old has sentenced Yashar Shikhametov to eleven years’ imprisonment on the basis of flawed charges, planted religious literature and anonymous ‘witnesses’ who had quite likely never set eyes on him.

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Fascism is here in Russia. Anti-war activities in Russia, 15-22 August

New investigations into acts “discrediting” the Russian army were opened in Elista (Kalmykia, South Russia), in Buinaksk (Dagestan) and Ingushetia in the North Caucasus, and in Petrozavodsk (Karelia), St Petersburg and Krasnodar (South Russia).