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• War crimes

Russians brutally tortured and sometimes killed Ukrainian civilians in village school in Kherson oblast

Survivors of seven months of Russia’s occupation of Bilyaivka have spoken of the destruction and filth that the invaders left, and their torture and killing of men they took prisoner

• War crimes

Kherson journalist, imprisoned by the Russians, tells of killing, rape and torture of hostages

Anzhela Slobodian, a journalist from TV ‘Ukraina’ has described the month she spent in Russian captivity in occupied Kherson, and the torture of hostages they were aware of

• The right to liberty and security

Former child hostage spends 7th birthday in Russian captivity for wanting to live in free Ukraine

Bohdan Kovalchuk was just 17 when he was taken prisoner by Russian-controlled Donbas militants

• Voices of war   • Interview

She found out she was pregnant the day Russia invaded

Previously, we published and translated into English an account of the everyday life of a doctor in a bomb shelter. But in fact, the story of doctor Hanna Shevchyk is larger. After the start of the war in Mariupol, her family moved to a bomb shelter under a candy factory. Soon Russians arrived.

• 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

• War crimes

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.

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

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

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