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• War crimes

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

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian in occupied Crimea gets harsh prison sentence for calling Russian Guard officer a war criminal and child killer

Oleksandr Tarapanov has become the first Ukrainian in Russian-occupied Crimea to receive a prison sentence on criminal charges which Russia hastily adopted in March to try to silence protest over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

• Against torture and ill-treatment   • The right to a fair trial

Zelensky urged to veto law that puts Ukraine on track for more damning European Court judgments

Parliament’s failure to properly comply with ECHR judgements is especially frustrating given the number of life prisoners in Ukraine whose sentences arouse very grave concern

• War crimes

Russia uses Kherson ‘evacuation’ for enforced disappearance of more Ukrainian hostages and POWs

The Russian invaders are moving Ukrainian civilian hostages and prisoners of war away from Kherson oblast, without any indication as to where they are being taken

• War crimes

Russian invaders destroy Memorial to Victims of Holodomor in Mariupol

“The Russians are continuing to destroy everything that is linked with Ukraine, our culture, history and heritage” - Petro Andriushchenko, Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol,

• War crimes

Russian paramilitary wanted by Ukraine over role in annexation of Crimea could face 15-year sentence in Czech republic

A Czech court has dismissed one of the charges against Aleksandr Franchetti, but left the main charge unchanged

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia abducts Crimean Tatar from mainland Ukraine and ‘sentences’ him in puppet trial in occupied Crimea

The charges against 33-year-old Artur Memetshaev are as lawless as his abduction,

• War crimes

UN Report: Russia used civilians as human shields and carried out summary executions including of a 14-year-old

The report paints a damning picture of the Russians’ methods of warfare, including indiscriminate attacks; the use of civilians as human shields and the shooting of civilians who were attempting to flee

• Events

‘Mogilisation’. Anti-war activities in Russia, 26 September to 1 October

Protests have been growing against the drafting of tens of thousands of men. The very term “mobilisation” was reworked to incorporate the Russian word for a grave ‘mogila’ (могила): substituting ‘g’ for ‘b’ transformed the partial ‘draft’ into a mass burial movement (“mogilisation”).

• War crimes

‘Guilty’ of being Ukrainian: Teacher abducted by the Russian invaders and held incommunicado for six months

Ukrainian teacher Viktoria Andrusha and other civilian hostages and POWs were forced to sing the Russian national anthem every day, threatened with having their heads shaved and, in many cases, subjected to physical reprisals

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar pensioner detained for calling Russia a fascist state on Facebook

67-year-old Asiye Chapukh was taken away and later prosecuted on charges, among others, of 'discrediting the Russian armed forces'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

20-year-old Crimean Tatar ‘arrested’ on grotesque charges three months after Russian occupiers abducted him

It is very likely that Appaz Kurtamet was subjected to torture during the months in which he was held incommunicado

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