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Former HR Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova on her dismissal, 4 years of work, Ukrainians in occupied areas

KHPG spoke to a former human rights ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova who was recently sacked with quite a scandal. Mrs Denisova says that she knows the real reason for her dismissal but prefers not to disclose it to prevent possible damage.

• The right to liberty and security

Well-known Ukrainian journalist and rights defender taken prisoner by Russian invaders

Like very many Ukrainian civilians, Maksym Butkevych saw no option but to join Ukraine’s Armed Forces soon after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

61-year-old Russian given 7-year prison sentence for criticizing Russia’s war against Ukraine, in bitter déjà vu from Soviet times

Alexei Gorinov has become the first Russian to receive a long prison sentence for telling the truth about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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

Russia copy-pastes first attack on Crimean Tatar activists after 4 years for new 13-year sentences

Neither man was accused of any recognizable crime and the prosecution’s case was essentially based on conversations about religion over four years ago, in which one of the defendants did not take part

Large protest in Russian-devastated Mariupol after pensioners die trying to find drinking water

Mariupol residents are forced to stand in huge queues for the five litres of drinking water allowed under Russian occupation

• Voices of war • Interview

‘The Russians fired at our car,’ a Kyiv region resident recalls

Tamara Buhera is a resident of Kozarovychi village in the Kyiv region. It was occupied in the first days of the war. When she, her friend and her son tried to flee, they were shot at. All three were injured. Her friend died of the injuries.

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

After violently seizing Crimea, Russia accuses peaceful Crimean Tatars of ‘terrorism’ for defending political prisoners

In a powerful address, Crimean Tatar political prisoner Oleh Fedorov has highlighted the grotesque absurdity of the country that invaded and annexed Crimea accusing peaceful Crimeans of seeking to ‘overthrow the Russian constitutional order’

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

Russia begins propaganda of war against Ukraine at pre-school level

The situation is particularly shocking in occupied Crimea, where the schoolchildren reportedly forced to send ‘letters of gratitude’ to soldiers fighting in Ukraine may well have family now being bombed or shelled by those same Russian invaders.

Covert mobilization and Ukrainian conscripts from occupied Crimea sent to die in Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia has used the armed formations it calls ‘republics’ in occupied Donbas to seize Ukrainian men and forcibly send them to the frontline where very many have been killed, and it now appears to be planning a form of mobilization in occupied Crimea

• Voices of war • Interview

“I entered a store and burst into tears” — three weeks under bombardment in Mariupol

A resident of Mariupol, Olga says that each day people died nearby when they went outside to prepare food on open fires. When she first heard the explosions on 24 February, she told her son it was thunder. Later she could not stop crying when she realized what was going on.

Russia instals FSB man, other Russians to ‘govern’ occupied Kherson where the population hates them

Moscow has clearly despaired of finding enough local collaborators to ‘govern’ the parts of the Kherson oblast currently under its occupation, and has brought in its own

Russia removes last doctors after destroying Mariupol and causing humanitarian disaster

Russia has reportedly sent the last doctors out of occupied Mariupol despite the real danger of epidemic in a city devastated by Russian bombing and shelling.

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