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

Russia wants 64-year-old Crimean Tatar to die in prison for refusing to collaborate in occupied Crimea

Zekirya Muratov, a pensioner and former musician has Grade III disability status and numerous grave medical conditions which make the long sentence as formal as the cynical charges against him.

• War crimes

Russia releases convicted mass murderer to fight in Ukraine, then awards him ‘for bravery’

Ivan Neparatov, leader of a Russian criminal gang, was serving 25 years for five murders and multiple other crimes when he was offered his freedom and money in exchange for fighting Russia’s war against Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Abducted Crimean Tatar sentenced to five years in Russian-occupied Crimea on insane charges

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Simferopol has sentenced 31-year-old Ruslan Abdurakhmanov to five years in a harsh regime prison colony on charges of staggering cynicism

• War crimes   • Research

Half a Year of the Full-Scale War in Kharkiv and the Kharkiv Region

Incidents in Kharkiv and the Kharkiv region recorded by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group during the first 180 days of the full-scale Russia-Ukraine war (February 24–August 22, 2022).

• War crimes

Russia plans special propaganda ‘lesson’ explaining to children in occupied Ukraine why the bombing of their cities is ‘liberation’

The aim of this 'lesson' of lies ais clearly to present war criminals as ‘heroes’ and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine as aimed at ‘liberation’

• War crimes

Russian invaders plan ‘trial’ of abducted Ukrainian volunteer on charge of ‘international terrorism’

Yaroslav Zhuk, a volunteer from Melitopol has been imprisoned for well over two months, with the aggressor state now accusing him of ‘international terrorism’.

• Freedom of expression   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Instead of obeying UN Court, Russia fabricates show trial to label Crimean Tatar Mejlis ‘terrorist’

It is well over five years since Russia was expressly ordered by the UN’s International Court of Justice to revoke its extraordinary ban on the Mejlis, or self-governing body, of the Crimean Tatar people.

• War crimes

Russia teaches Mariupol children to shoot and to hate Ukraine

The Mariupol City Council has posted photos from a so-called ‘children’s camp’ in Melekino, near Mariupol, and accuses the invaders of using Nazi methods and “trying to turn Mariupol children into Hitlerjugend”

• Events

Those who unleashed this war will not go to Heaven. Anti-War activities In Russia, 7-14 August 2022

St Petersburg priest Father Ioann Kurmoyarov has been held in custody since 9 June. “The blessed peace-makers will end up in Heaven,” he said. “you understand what I’m saying? The peace-makers. Those who unleashed this aggression will not be going there.”

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘In a panic, people abandoned their bed-ridden relatives.’ А resident of Mariupol story about how people were coerced to leave for Russia

Andriy Potayenko, a 47-year-old engineer left Mariupol on 24 March. During that month he saw tanks shooting at a kindergarten and residential buildings and even quarreled with the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) fighters.

• War crimes

Russia effectively admits to using Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as a military base

Russia’s Rosgvardia fighters have reported ‘detaining’ more employees of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and have effectively acknowledged, against Russia’s own denials, that the invading state is using the nuclear plant as a military base

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

New armed searches and arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea for reading the Bible

The Russian FSB carried out new armed searches of the homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses on 24 August, with two believers – 53-year-old Viktor Kudinov and Serhiy Zhygalov (51) taken into custody