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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean sentenced to 17 years for Russia’s latest ‘thwarted Ukrainian sabotage plot’

Very little is known about 59-year-old Mykola Davydchenko and his ‘trial’. Enough, however, for the case to seem suspiciously similar to others of the Russian FSB genre

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia upholds ‘foreign agent’ label and fines Lutfiye Zudiyeva for exposing its repression in occupied Crimea

The label, the prosecutions, Lutfiye told the occupation 'court' are aimed at forcing her to stop reporting on human rights violations, and this is something she cannot do in the face of such constant persecution and suffering

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Support Nadin Geissler!

The team at the Lithuanian charity foundation Action4Life — are launching the international campaign #Action4Nadin in support of Nadezhda Rossinskaya (Nadin Geissler), who has been sentenced in Russia to 22 years in prison for providing humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine. KHPG joined the campaign.

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Russian ‘judges’ rubberstamp huge conveyor belt sentences on insane ‘terrorism’ charges against Ukrainian POWs

Russia is using obedient 'judges' to claim that men, defending their country, are somehow 'terrorists'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean artist sentenced to 15 years for anti-war protest renounces foisted Russian citizenship

Bohdan Ziza felt unable to remain silent in the face of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and horrific war crimes. He has paid a huge price, but remains unbroken

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Ukrainians in occupied Ukraine without Russian citizenship labelled ‘foreigners’ and face deportation

The Russian invaders have already staged a few videoed ‘deportations’ from occupied Ukraine. Now any Ukrainian who has withstood the pressure to take Russian passports will face deportation

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Why is Russia hiding 77-year-old Spanish volunteer abducted from occupied Ukraine in 2022?

If the reason for secrecy this time is that Mariano Garcia Calatayud [Mario] died in Russian captivity, then Russia bears full responsibility and should be made to answer for it

• Voices of war

‘We brought books to libraries, and two weeks later they were destroyed by the Russians’

Why do people in the de-occupied territories not only need humanitarian aid and medicine, but also books? How to get rid of "Soviet thinking"? We talk with Olha Bondar-Reznychenko, a leading specialist of the Kharkiv Literary Museum and a volunteer of the “Dobrochynets [Benefactor]” OO.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences Crimean Jehovah’s Witness to six years 'for reading religious texts'

This is the latest of 32 criminal prosecutions which Russia has brought to Crimea, in which men and women are accused solely of studying the Bible and of gathering with other believers

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia revokes Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s citizenship, making deportation from occupied Crimea permanent

Having failed to terrorize Crimean Tatars into leaving occupied Crimea, Russia may now be planning to use fabricated criminal prosecutions.

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Russia sentences Ukrainian POW to 20 years for defending Ukraine in ‘Crimean Tatar Battalion’

Russia’s authorities appear unsure what they got banned, with this in no way obstructing politically motivated sentences like that against Serhiy Yatskov

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16-17-year sentences for telling Ukraine’s defenders about Russian invaders in Luhansk oblast

It is likely that Lisa Smirnova and Artem Matvieiev were both abducted and held incommunicado for a long time before Russia came up with ‘spying trials’ used in part to terrorize others on occupied territory