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Savage sentences in Russia’s religious persecution and plunder in occupied Crimea

A Russian court of appeal has upheld sentences of up to 18 years against four Crimean Tatars, with the persecution of two of the men almost certainly connected with Russia’s attack on an independent religious community and plunder of their mosque

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

Russia 'takes revenge’ for humiliating attack on Crimea military base by new mass arrests of Crimean Tatars

The head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis believes that Russia decided to avenge itself for the humiliation of the attack by staging mass arrests of Crimean Tatars on fabricated charges

• War crimes

Russian show trial of Mariupol Azovstal defenders will likely be held on Ukraine’s Independence Day

It is a war crime to prosecute prisoners of war for carrying out their duties, yet Russia is planning to stage just such a grotesque ‘trial’ of the defenders of Mariupol whom it took prisoner in May 2022

• War crimes

Russia invites Steven Seagal, while blocking the Red Cross from visiting Olenivka prison after killing of 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war

Had the explosion at Olenivka prison really been the result of a HIMARS-launched Ukrainian missile, there would be no reason for Russia to obstruct an investigation, while bringing in Steven Seagal for repugnant propaganda shots

• Events

“He lay on the sidewalk, naming towns and cities in Ukraine”. A digest of anti-war activities in Russia, 23-29 July

Since the beginning of March, the police have charged more than 3,000 Russian citizens with “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3, Administrative Offences). The Net Freedoms project calculates that courts have issued fines in 92% of cases.

• War crimes

Amnesty International’s 4 August statement. A response by the “Tribunal for Putin” initiative

The 4 August Amnesty statement does not contain a detailed presentation of the information it had accumulated. It fails to provide an analysis of key factors that might permit an assessment of the alleged violations of international humanitarian law by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

• War crimes

Ukraine: No peace talks possible if Russia continues with fake referendums to annex Ukrainian territory

Russia is faking mass ‘support’ and offering bribes for pseudo-referendums aimed at rubberstamping its seizure of Ukrainian territory

• War crimes

New Russian shelling of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant raises real spectre of nuclear disaster

The Director General of the  International Atomic Energy Agency warned that the risk was high even before the new shelling on 6 August

• War crimes

Director of Amnesty International in Ukraine resigns in protest calling controversial Amnesty press release 'a tool of Russian propaganda’

The Ukrainian Office of Amnesty International was not involved in the press release which has drawn criticism from warfare specialists and people involved in documenting the war crimes committed since Russia began its full-scale invasion

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia strips three Crimean Tatar lawyers of their licence to prevent them defending political prisoners

Three prominent Crimean Tatar human rights lawyers have been stripped of their licences in the latest attack by the Russian regime on independent lawyers defending victims of persecution in occupied Crimea

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Retired Ukrainian naval commander abducted, tortured and taken to Russian-occupied Crimea ‘for trial’

Russia is becoming ever more brazen in abducting Ukrainian citizens from areas recently seized by the Russian military and concocting insane charges against them in occupied Crimea

• The right to life   • The right to a fair trial

Sentence passed over savage killing of Ukrainian human rights lawyer Iryna Nozdrovska

The victim’s daughter believes that the sentence against Yury Rossoshansky was just, but that others were also involved in her savage murder, including a high-ranking police official