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• 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

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

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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