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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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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

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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

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘There was a human being, and the body was torn apart in an instant’ — a Mariupol graduate who went through hell

She had to finish 11th grade, pass exams, and dance at graduation. But instead, she went through hell. A seventeen-year-old resident of Mariupol tells how she and her family ended up in a blockade and later went through the horrors of a filtration camp.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Call for Russia to be expelled from INTERPOL after Ukrainian journalist detained in Turkey

The incident is of serious concern given Interpol's failure to notice the evident political motives behind Russia’s wish to get Gulsum Khalilova extradited and imprisoned

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean sentenced to 3 years after ‘confession’ almost certainly extracted through torture

There is almost certainly no evidence against Aziz Faizullaev aside from a videoed 'confession' which was obtained while the 25-year-old was held without access to a lawyer

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Russia takes Ukrainian children prisoner in 'first wave of deportation'

As feared, Russia and its local collaborators are refusing to return Ukrainian children who were supposedly sent on holiday or to study in Russia or occupied Crimea.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Staggering lawlessness in Russia’s persecution of a Crimean Tatar from mainland Ukraine

A Russian occupation ‘court’ in Simferopol has sentenced Rustem Gugurik to eight and a half years’ imprisonment on absurd chances

• Events

‘Stand up for your convictions, even if you stand alone!’ Anti-war activities in Russia, 3-9 October

After Monday 3 October, as the reality of partial mobilisation and the reaction of the authorities sank in, protests in Russia entered another quiet phase. A great many women who went out on the streets to protest were still being held in police stations across the country and in its detention centres.

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Russia Today sacks presenter who calls for kids to be drowned, but has no problem with calls to genocide against Ukraine

Anton Krasovsky was fired for suggesting that Ukrainian kids be killed, but not for claiming that elderly Ukrainians wanted to be raped, that Ukraine had no right to exist and that those with whom it would be difficult to share one country should be shot