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• The right to liberty and security • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

20-year-old Crimean Tatar vanishes after arriving at Russian-controlled checkpoint

There is every reason to believe that Appaz Kurtamet has been taken prisoner by Russia’s FSB, and for concern since this bears all the hallmarks of an abduction

• Against torture and ill-treatment • Penal institutions

REPORT on the results of a study of court decisions on release from prisons due to illness

The study analyzed 1417 rulings of the first-instance courts under pt.2 of Art. 84 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which were delivered between January 1, 2017 and June 30, 2022 throughout Ukraine and made openly available in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.

Russia razes Ukrainian city to the ground and says ‘there’s no point’ to rebuilding it

Popasna in the Luhansk oblast became known far beyond Ukraine for Russia’s savage methods of warfare, including the apparent beheading of a Ukrainian soldier.

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

Savage sentences in Russia’s religious persecution and plunder in occupied Crimea

A Russian court of appeal has upheld sentences of up to 18 years against four Crimean Tatars, with the persecution of two of the men almost certainly connected with Russia’s attack on an independent religious community and plunder of their mosque

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

Russia 'takes revenge’ for humiliating attack on Crimea military base by new mass arrests of Crimean Tatars

The head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis believes that Russia decided to avenge itself for the humiliation of the attack by staging mass arrests of Crimean Tatars on fabricated charges

Russian show trial of Mariupol Azovstal defenders will likely be held on Ukraine’s Independence Day

It is a war crime to prosecute prisoners of war for carrying out their duties, yet Russia is planning to stage just such a grotesque ‘trial’ of the defenders of Mariupol whom it took prisoner in May 2022

Russia invites Steven Seagal, while blocking the Red Cross from visiting Olenivka prison after killing of 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war

Had the explosion at Olenivka prison really been the result of a HIMARS-launched Ukrainian missile, there would be no reason for Russia to obstruct an investigation, while bringing in Steven Seagal for repugnant propaganda shots

“He lay on the sidewalk, naming towns and cities in Ukraine”. A digest of anti-war activities in Russia, 23-29 July

Since the beginning of March, the police have charged more than 3,000 Russian citizens with “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3, Administrative Offences). The Net Freedoms project calculates that courts have issued fines in 92% of cases.

Amnesty International’s 4 August statement. A response by the “Tribunal for Putin” initiative

The 4 August Amnesty statement does not contain a detailed presentation of the information it had accumulated. It fails to provide an analysis of key factors that might permit an assessment of the alleged violations of international humanitarian law by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Ukraine: No peace talks possible if Russia continues with fake referendums to annex Ukrainian territory

Russia is faking mass ‘support’ and offering bribes for pseudo-referendums aimed at rubberstamping its seizure of Ukrainian territory

New Russian shelling of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant raises real spectre of nuclear disaster

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned that the risk was high even before the new shelling on 6 August

Director of Amnesty International in Ukraine resigns in protest calling controversial Amnesty press release 'a tool of Russian propaganda’

The Ukrainian Office of Amnesty International was not involved in the press release which has drawn criticism from warfare specialists and people involved in documenting the war crimes committed since Russia began its full-scale invasion

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