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• Politics
On 30 May it became known that the people’s deputies want to use the new law (“On the legal regime of martial law”) by proclaiming mistrust to Denisova after an instruction from Bankova street. If it happens, the independence of the institution of the Commissioner can be buried and forgotten. That independence survived in the winter months of Maidan, and later – in spring 2014 in opposition to the whims of parliamentarians. It was defended. The law defeated the arbitrariness.
• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Both of the Crimean Tatars abducted together with political prisoners Nariman Dzhelyal and two cousins - Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, have stated during the trial of the latter that their ‘testimony’ against the defendants was given under torture
• War crimes
he Mariupol authorities have reposted a harrowing photo which appears to show the premises of a supermarket being used as a dumping ground for the bodies of Mariupol residents
The mass arrests and imprisonment on absurd charges are clearly a threat, aimed at deterring lawyers from defending Russia’s growing number of political prisoners
An independent study has concluded that there is a serious risk of Russian genocide in Ukraine evidenced both in Russia’s incitement to commit genocide and in its pattern of atrocities
• Voices of war • Interview
Hanna Shevchyk, 31, used to work in a maternity hospital in Mariupol. She had to spend a month in the bomb shelter. Her war story is different from others due to medical details, and shows how you can still save lives when there’s a lack of medicines.
• War crimes • Research
The analysis of the collected information gives grounds to claim that there were deaths and injuries of civilians, destruction and damage of civilian objects due to wilful shelling and indiscriminate shelling, probable incidents of enforced disappearances, captures of civilians, violations of humanitarian corridors and attacks on humanitarian aid supplies and convoys, volunteers, looting, killings.
• Events
In Dagestan a schoolgirl finished her graduation speech with phrases : “No to War! Free Ukraine! Putin is a devil”. She was forced to publicly apologize for this.
Four Crimean Tatar lawyers, all well-known for their tireless work in representing Russia’s ever-mounting number of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners, have been detained in the last two days
Killings, rape and sexual abuse; enforced deportation and abduction are just some of the appalling war crimes that Russian military are committing in Ukraine
• War crimes • Events
This publication provides the summary of the information gathered by the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, within the global initiative “Tribunal for Putin” on the alleged international crimes in 90 days of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. 840 episodes were documented and recorded in the database.
The new move is still further confirmation, should any more have been required, that Putin was lying when he claimed that Russia was not seeking to annex still further parts of Ukrainian territory