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

Russia seeks 15-17 sentences against Crimean Tatar civic journalists who reported repression in occupied Crimea

A Russian prosecutor has demanded 15-17-year sentences against three civic journalists and two civic activists, all of whom were involved in reporting and / or supporting the victims of Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea

• War crimes

Russia sends forcibly mobilized Ukrainians from occupied Donbas to die as ‘live bait’ at the frontline

Russia does not need to keep any record of how many Ukrainian men, forcibly mobilized from occupied Donbas, are killed in the fighting, nor pay compensation to the men’s families

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

Ukrainian journalist’s sentence reduced because of a ‘confession’ obtained through Russian FSB torture

The Russian occupation ‘Crimean High Court’ has knocked one year off the politically motivated 6-year sentence against Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, with the reason of quite staggering cynicism

• Events

Opposing the Orwellian State. Anti-war activities in Russia, 27 July-5 August

“No to the War”, “Putin is a war criminal!”, or just a placard bearing eight asterisks—with such posters people in Russia hold solitary anti-war protests ending up on the dock.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian prosecutor demands 15-year sentences against Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal and two tortured cousins

‘Prosecutor’ Roman Lobov claimed that the men’s ‘guilt’ had been proven, although there is no material evidence even of an act of sabotage, let alone of the men’s involvement

• War crimes

Russia kills and maims children in Kharkiv and claims it ‘destroyed mercenaries’

Russia launched a massive missile strike on Kharkiv and Krasnohrad (Kharkiv oblast) in the early hours of 18 August, killing at least 17 civilians, including an 11-year-old child.

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Jail or steep fines in Russian-occupied Crimea for playing a Ukrainian anti-war song or for saying ‘Glory to Ukraine’

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has sentenced disk jockey Yury Rodionov to ten days administrative arrest for playing a Ukrainian song, with video accompaniment showing Ukrainian soldiers and symbols

• War crimes

Ukrainian volunteer asphyxiated, beaten and half-starved in Russian ‘filtration’ concentration camp

25-year-old Ihor Talalai spent 88 days in Russian captivity after being seized by Russian-controlled soldiers as he tried to evacuate people from Mariupol

• War crimes

Pregnant Ukrainian medic held in Russian captivity for four months

Mariana Mamonova is in her seventh month of pregnancy and concern is acute both for her and for her unborn baby in the appalling conditions of Russian captivity.

• The right to liberty and security   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

20-year-old Crimean Tatar vanishes after arriving at Russian-controlled checkpoint

There is every reason to believe that Appaz Kurtamet has been taken prisoner by Russia’s FSB, and for concern since this bears all the hallmarks of an abduction

• Against torture and ill-treatment   • Penal institutions

REPORT on the results of a study of court decisions on release from prisons due to illness

The study analyzed 1417 rulings of the first-instance courts under pt.2 of Art. 84 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which were delivered between January 1, 2017 and June 30, 2022 throughout Ukraine and made openly available in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.

• War crimes

Russia razes Ukrainian city to the ground and says ‘there’s no point’ to rebuilding it

Popasna in the Luhansk oblast became known far beyond Ukraine for Russia’s savage methods of warfare, including the apparent beheading of a Ukrainian soldier.

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