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

Prosecution witness confirms lack of any grounds for Russia’s 'terrorism' charges against Crimean Tatar civic activists

The testimony from a former employee of the Crimean Muftiate totally rejected the surreal and immensely cynical ‘terrorism’ charges which Russia is using to crush the Crimean Tatar human rights movement

Torture of civilians by Russians in temporarily occupied territory is a crime against humanity (Press release)

Today, the 'T4P' Initiative presented a communication to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, substantiating that the torture of civilians in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories constitutes both a crime against humanity and a war crime.

Russia is to remove Ukrainian language from curriculum in occupied Ukraine

“There is no crime more terrible on occupied territory than identifying as Ukrainian", and if parents won’t be intimidated into rejecting Ukrainian language education for their children, they must be forced

Abducted and tortured Ukrainian sentenced to 13 years for fictitious plan to kill Russian-installed Crimean leader

There is no proof of any plan to kill Sergei Aksyonov, and it is unclear why the FSB trumpeted their ‘arrests’ of Volodymyr Bodnar, Oksana Shevchenko and 74-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev, only to stage three separate ‘trials’

‘I got caught in your meat grinder’ — the appeals court in the Russian Federation upheld Ukrainian Ivan Zabavsky behind bars

The Second Appeals Court in St. Petersburg upheld the sentence of Ukrainian Ivan Zabavsky, a resident of the Kharkiv region, sentenced to 11 years. In 2022, the occupiers captured him when he tried to save his mother, whose home was literally on the front line.

What Russian soldiers seize is ours, Putin claims, quoting Hitler

The Russian leader also claimed the right (presumably) to slaughter any number of Ukrainian civilians, including well over 600 children, because, he asserts, we're all "one people"

20-year sentence on copy-pasted charges against Ukrainian abducted from Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

Russia, as aggressor state, is not only claiming that legitimate resistance against its military invasion is ‘terrorism’, but is also manufacturing a suspiciously large number of ‘trials’ with near identical indictments

7-year-olds in occupied Ukraine taught how to become part of Russia’s war machine

Russia has lowered the age to seven of activities aimed at teaching children, including in occupied Ukraine, to operate the drones it is using to slaughter Ukrainian civilians

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean sentenced to 17 years ‘for planning to blow up a Russian military helicopter’

While impossible to verify the information, the charges against Serhiy Kucherenko, the videoed ‘confession’ and many implausible details must raise doubts about this latest 'thwarted terrorist attack trial'

Russian court ignores abduction and torture, increasing huge sentence against Ukrainian for trying to rescue his mother

Ivan Zabavsky was abducted by the Russians as he tried to save his mother, after his aunt was killed by Russian shelling, and systematically tortured for ten months

Russia sentences 19-year-old Ukrainian to 8 years for ‘spying for Ukraine’ as a young boy

Kyrylo Shcherbak may well have been abducted and held captive in occupied Luhansk oblast from when he was just 16

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

New legislation formalizes Russia’s brutal isolation of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

The new provisions are draconian, however Russia’s treatment of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs has always been savage, with or without norms

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