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• War crimes   • Research

Missing persons and enforced disappearances in the Kherson Region (24 February-24 June 2022)

During Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine the Kherson Region became a part of the country with the highest number of enforced disappearances and illegal detention among civilians. To date (24 June 2022) 412 victims of these crimes have been identified.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar journalist detained on charges of ‘discrediting Russian army’ and jailed for 'showing resistance'

Rolan Osmanov was jailed for supposed ‘resistance’, with another occupation ‘court hearing’ scheduled for 14 July on the charge that he ‘discredited the Russian army’ on Facebook

• War crimes

Russian proxy ‘Donetsk republic’ threatens foreign defenders of Ukraine will be executed, with families not told when

There is no such thing as an independent court in ‘DPR’ and any decision regarding the two Britons' and Moroccan's fate will be taken by Moscow

• Events

Feminists, “Railroad Partisans” and School-Leavers Protest. A Digest of Protests in Russia, 25 June-2 July 2022

During the past week Ilya Yashin, a well-known opposition politician, was arrested in Moscow; Russia’s feminists, the “railroad partisans” and school-leavers showed their opposition to the war in a variety of ways; while Vesna activists in several cities responded to the Russian shelling of the KremenchukShopping Centre [on 27 June] with a ‘Last Purchase’ protest.

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

Crimean Tatar sentenced to 19 years on 'sheer fantasy' charges

Three ‘judges’ from the notorious Southern District Military Court in Rostov (Russia) have sentenced 34-year-old Ismet Ibragimov to 19 years’ imprisonment without any crime and on charges that Ismet’s neighbours say “border on fantasy”.

• Politics

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

• Events

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

• War crimes

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’