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• 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

• War crimes

Russia killed Inna’s husband, destroyed her home and give awards to the killers for ‘liberating’ Mariupol

Inna Hladka asks bitterly: Excuse me, what exactly did you liberate me from? From my husband; from my family; from our home; from everything”. Now she is ‘free’ because they took everything from her

• War crimes

Invaders stage fake referendum so they can accuse Ukraine of ‘invading Russia’

Russia’s ruling party is using fake ‘help centres’ in parts of Ukraine seized by the Russian army to facilitate the rigging of pseudo ‘referendums’ on Russian annexation of further Ukrainian territory

• War crimes

Chief Kremlin propagandist calls Russia’s killing of elderly civilians – Hero of Ukraine Oleksiy Vadatursky and his wife - 'denazification in action'

The initial response to Russia’s killing of Oleksiy Vadatursky and his elderly wife, from Margarita Simonyan, one of the Kremlin’s main propaganda mouthpieces was both shocking and highly incriminating.

• Penal institutions

The application practice of Article 391 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine proves that this Article should be canceled

Article 391 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, both by its essence and by the practice of its application, does not correspond to the basic democratic principles and the principles of criminal law and is used in most cases as a tool of pressure and reprisals against disobedient prisoners.

• War crimes

Russian horrific castration of Ukrainian POW was about terror and preventing own soldiers from surrendering

A Russian tweet demanding the ‘humiliating death’ of Azov defenders raises suspicions over the killing of 53 Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka, shortly after Russian propagandists showed a Ukrainian prisoner being castrated

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

Russian FSB threaten and beat imprisoned Crimean journalist and human rights defender Iryna Danilovych

The Russian FSB who abducted and tortured Iryna Danilovych in April this year see no need to deny that the charges used to imprison the Crimean civic journalist, nurse and rights defender are fabricated. Quite the contrary

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I don’t want to see them in the dock. I want to see them dead,’ a man from the Mariupol Drama Theatre says

​​​​​​​Vadym Zabolotny escaped from Donetsk after 2014 and moved to Lviv. Then he settled in Mariupol on the Azov Sea coast. Recent events have forced him to return to West Ukraine. Today the 59-year-old doctor works as a volunteer, helping his country to win the war.

• Events

2,500 kms on Foot to Protest against the War. Anti-war Activities in Russia, 17-26 July 2022

Hardly any anti-war protest takes place in Russia today without harassment or prosecution by the country’s law-enforcement agencies. Protestors are fined under Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code; they are charged under Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code (up to 15 years imprisonment); or they may be sent, like Maria Ponomarenko of Barnaul (south Siberia), for psychiatric assessment.

• War crimes   • Research

The First 150 Days 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 150 days of the full-scale Russia-Ukraine war (February 24 – July 23, 2022).