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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian court sentences young Crimean to 15 years for fictitious 'planned terrorist attack’

Alina Grek was first jailed for five days, purportedly over a video posted back in 2014 when she was just 15. This would not be the first time that the FSB then resorted to very serious charges if a person refused to be cowered

Mustafa Dzhemilev: Any ‘peace deal violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity will prepare the ground for new Russian invasion

Russia has made no secret of its demands, and any coercion of Ukraine into so-called ‘territorial swapping’ would not only be immoral and in violation of international law, but also deeply dishonest

Russian invaders sentence Ukrainian pensioner to 12.5 years after torturing out ‘confession’ to links with 'British spies'

Serhiy Chebukin is 62 and has almost certainly long been in Russian captivity as he was forced to take part in deranged British spymania propaganda almost 18 months ago

Free people first! An Open Letter to the President of the United States

Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, human rights and press freedom defenders, former political prisoners, and families of those still in detention and captivity appealed to President Trump.

Russia abducts 18-year-old from occupied Melitopol, sentences her two years later to 18 years for photos of FSB

Daria Kulik was just 17 when the Russians invaded her native Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia oblast. They took her prisoner a year later

Final blow to Ukrainians on occupied territory as Russia blocks private calls through WhatsApp and Telegram

Russia is aggressively seeking to block truthful information and contact between Ukrainians that it is unable to control

• On refugees

Borisov Case a Test of Ukraine’s Commitment to European Human Rights Standards

Human rights activists are calling for refugee status to be granted to Russian citizen Ivan Borisov, who faces imprisonment in the Russian Federation.

Russia uses lawless 'terrorism' ruling to pass huge sentences against Ukrainian POWs for defending Mariupol

Russia was recently forced to reveal a Supreme Court ruling from 2 August 2022, banning the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Azov Regiment. The ruling only confirms the lack of any justification and total contempt for the law behind the ban

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB escalate abductions and terror against women in occupied Crimea

Three women who vanished in March 2024, as well as Tetiana Strifanova, whom the FSB abducted in February 2025 are being held incommunicado, without any legal status or charges having been laid

Ukrainian media forcibly replaced on occupied territory with ‘Russian World’ propaganda

Putin has also signed into law the effective criminalization of Internet searches for what is called ‘extremist’ content and the use of VPNs to access ‘prohibited’ sites, all dangerously broad terms covering just about everything Ukrainian

Russians bomb, pillage, rape and murder Ukrainians, then force their children to study ‘Russian traditional values’

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been plugging such ‘values’ for years, with the lack of any clear definition increasing the scope for abuse

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mother and daughter sentenced to 12 years in Russia’s conveyor belt ‘treason trials’ in occupied Crimea

The blitzkrieg nature of the ‘trials’ of Victoria Strilets and her daughter Oleksandr, as well as of Oleksandr Osadchy, are typical of all such ‘trials’ where convictions and long sentences are guaranteed

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