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“We’re not celebrating today” – digest of Russian protests (early June 2022)

12 June was a public holiday in Russia. It marks the date in 1990 when the Russian Federation declared its independence. In Russian towns and cities filled with police and the pro-war symbol Z, activists used the occasion to hold anti-war protests. Many were arrested, and facial-recognition technology was used to detain over sixty men and women in the Moscow Metro. Hackers, street artists and musicians took part in the protests.

High-ranking Russian officials openly incite to genocide against Ukraine

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s ‘doubt’ that Ukraine will exist in two years is nothing to the open incitement to genocide seen from another high-ranking public figure

Tortured to death by Russia's FSB for helping to defend Ukraine from the invaders

Denys Myronov's mother, Natalia, is convinced that her son was so savagely tortured because they could not break him and he refused to collaborate with the enemy.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea • Events

ECHR rules too late against Russia’s notorious ‘foreign agent’ law and hardly moves over violations in occupied Crimea

The judgement might have been hailed as a victory for civil society in Russia and occupied Crimea, had it not been so hopelessly belated.

Russian invaders demand Ukrainians have ‘filtration’ stamps and permits to live in their own cities

The Russian invaders who have seized control of Mariupol are forcing the remaining residents to carry stamps in their passports, confirming that they have undergone so-called ‘filtration’

Prominent Ukrainian activist Roman Ratushny killed defending Ukraine against Russian invaders

Roman Ratushny represented everything that the Russian regime is trying to destroy in Ukraine.

Mass grave with seven tortured victims of Russian invaders found in forest outside Kyiv

All of the civilians had been shot in the head, and many had their hands tied, and had also been shot at in the knees

• The right to life • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia kills refugee in occupied Crimea, then ‘puts him on trial’

A Russian court is about to begin the ‘trial’ of Nabi Rakhimov, 13 months after the Uzbek refugee was killed by the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea

Tortured body found of Ukrainian patriot seized by the Russian invaders of Kherson

Vitaliy Lapchuk was killed by the Russian soldiers who claimed to be ‘liberating’ Kherson. Killed, after they savagely tortured him for seeking to defend his country

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia declares peaceful Crimean Tatar organization ‘terrorist’ to escalate repression in occupied parts of Ukraine

Russia’s Supreme Court has passed yet another politically motivated ruling, declaring a peaceful Ukrainian organization ‘terrorist’ and leading potentially to 20-year sentences

'Death sentences’ of British & Moroccan POWs in occupied Donbas show clearly why Russia must be driven out of all of Ukraine

Two British and a Moroccan fighting for Ukraine in Mariupol have been ‘sentenced to death’ by an unrecognized ‘court’ from the Russian-controlled ‘Donetsk people’s republic’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean Tatar likely tortured into ‘confessing’ to anti-war protest

It is of particular concern that the supposed ‘confession’ was made while Aziz Faizullaev’s lawyer was being prevented from seeing him

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