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Russia heavily targets Crimean Tatars in forced mobilization in occupied Crimea

Reports from occupied Crimea suggest that Russia’s measures aimed at forcibly mobilizing men to fight its war against Ukraine are specifically targeting Crimean Tatars

Look at this instead. Anti-war activities in Russia, 2-11 September 2022

A Russian artist Alevtina Yelsukova has sewn a quilt resembling the TV signal screen and sold it at auction. The money will be used to buy blankets for Ukrainian refugees. This quilt could cover the largest TV screen and stop anyone watching it again

• The right to liberty and security

Silence abets Russia in torturing and risking the lives of Ukrainian hostages and POWs in occupied Donbas

Of the civilian hostages, ‘sentenced’ by these Russian proxy entities on ‘spying’ or even ‘treason’ charges, very many are known to have been imprisoned and savagely tortured for their pro-Ukrainian position

Russia needs sham 'referendums' on occupied territory to forcibly mobilize Ukrainians as cannon fodder

Russia is to hold pseudo ‘referendums’ in the occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts this weekend, with the plan clearly to swiftly declare them all ‘part of the Russian Federation’

• other • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Nariman Dzhelyal to 17 years in revenge for Crimea Platform

A kangaroo court in Russian-occupied Crimea has imposed horrific sentences against Nariman Dzhelyal and two young cousins, Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, on entirely fictitious ‘sabotage’ charges

There’s always a choice. Anti-war activities in Russia, 23-27 August

Russia today is a dictatorial regime with strict censorship. Yet as a protestor from a small village in Central Russia wrote of recent attempts to bribe men into joining the army, “You can’t cure death with money. There’s always a choice”.

First evidence of Russian abductions, torture and forced deportation from Kozacha Lopan (Kharkiv oblast)

Every populated area in Ukraine which has been liberated after Russian occupation has tales to tell of brutality, torture and disappearances, with those in Kharkiv oblast no exception

Russia claims Ukraine ‘abducted’ the Sri Lankan students freed after months in Russian captivity

Seven Sri Lankan medical students are receiving medical care after they were rescued by the Ukrainian Armed Forces after four months held prisoner by the Russian invaders, occupying Vovchansk (Kharkiv oblast).

• The right to liberty and security

Russia’s Luhansk proxies ‘sentence’ two OSCE employees to 13 years on grotesque treason charges

The spectacle was condemned by the OSCE as “nothing but pure political theatre… inhumane and repugnant

Izium Mass Graves: Tortured victims with bound hands and entire families killed by the Russian invaders

Demands are mounting for an international tribunal over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the growing evidence of mass war crimes

Valentin Vyhivsky: Eight years of torture in Russian captivity for being Ukrainian

It is exactly eight years since Russia’s FSB abducted Valentin Vyhivsky from occupied Crimea and took him to Moscow, where he was held incommunicado for around eight months and savagely tortured

Mass burial site at Izium, imprisoned teenagers and other Russian war crimes in Kharkiv oblast

Just days after the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated Balakliya, Kupiansk, Izium and other towns and villages, it is already clear that the Russians have left a trail of war crimes, and the bodies of tortured victims, throughout the Kharkiv oblast.

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