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

Two effective death sentences in Russia’s most savage attack on Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists

A Russian court has sentenced five Crimean Tatar recognized political prisoners to 13 years’ imprisonment, despite knowing that for two of the men, 60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov and Servet Gaziev (62) this is a death sentence

Mariupol children forced to entertain and ‘thank’ the Russian soldiers who shattered their childhood

Children and young people in Russian-devastated Mariupol have been forced to perform in front of Russian soldiers, with parents threatened with serious consequences if their children did not take part in this cynical farce

• The right to liberty and security • War crimes

Ukrainian researcher savagely tortured for ‘confession to treason’ against Russian proxy ‘Donetsk republic’

51-year-old hostage Olena Piekh urgently needs medical intervention, not least because of the electric shocks, the screws twisted into her knees, asphyxiation and mock executions used to force her ‘confession to treason and spying’

Wagner PMC convicted killers ‘get clean slate, freedom and pardon' for fighting Russia’s war against Ukraine

Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia’s notorious Wagner ‘private military company’, has made public a video which claims to show the first group of convicted criminals who have returned to Russian and been ‘pardoned’ after being sent to kill in Ukraine.

UN disbands Russian-blocked ‘fact-finding mission’ into mass killing of Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka prison

The UN Secretary-General has effectively confirmed that no investigation will be carried out into the violent deaths of a huge number of Ukrainian prisoners of war held at a notorious prison in occupied Olenivka

Russia abducted, usually tortured, over a thousand civilians, including children in Kherson oblast alone

Those held hostage by the invaders have included children as young as 14, with Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsperson reporting that some were tortured.

Children to undergo compulsory military training in both Russia and occupied Crimea

The compulsory ‘basic military training’ will teach children in occupied parts of Ukraine not only how to use a Kalashnikov rifle but how to ‘interpret’ political events from the point of view of a ‘patriot of Russia’

Russian FSB uses total isolation to torture and try to break abducted Kherson woman

It is well over seven months since Russian soldiers abducted Iryna Horobtsova from her home in Kherson

In Memory: Viktor Fainberg, courageous Soviet dissident, defender of Russia’s Ukrainian political prisoners

Long before Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Viktor Fainberg warned of the “shadow of Munich hanging over Europe” and came out once again in protest, this time over Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

Kharkiv Human Rights Group’s position regarding the detention and prosecution of Kostyantyn Zhevago

KHPG sees political persecution in the investigation of businessman Konstantin Zhevago and opposes his extradition to Ukraine.

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

Imprisoned Crimean artist faces ‘terrorism’ charges for protesting Russia's war against Ukraine

The ‘trial’ is beginning in Rostov (Russia) of Crimean artist Bohdan Ziza (Azizov) on ‘terrorism’ charges which are probably based solely on a ‘confession’ extracted through torture.

• War crimes • Events

21-23-year sentences for three Belarusian heroes who helped Ukraine stop Russia from taking Kyiv

Three Belarusians known as the Svietlahorsk Rail Partisans have received monstrous sentences for courageous actions aimed at hindering Russia’s use of Belarus for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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