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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Abducted Crimean Tatar father sentenced to 13 years for 'anti-Russian posts' and opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Ismail Shemshedinov’s infant daughter was just three months old when Russian FSB burst into their home and took Ismail away, hiding him until this latest of multiple sentences for supposed ‘treason’

• War crimes

Children abducted and held for months until their fathers agree to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

While forcing fathers to fight by imprisoning their children as hostages may plummet new depths, Russia’s methods aimed at forcing Ukrainian to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine are also shockingly cynical and evil

• Law enforcement agencies

NABU says Zelenskyy’s new bill reinstates anti-graft body’s independence after protests throughout Ukraine

In the face of mass protests in Ukraine and serious warnings abroad, President Zelenskyy has, as he promised, tabled a new bill, which may resolve the problems created by a bill rushed into law two days earlier

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chilling escalation as Russia brings 'treason' charges against Crimean activist for pro-Ukrainian graffiti

Ksenia Svietlishyna, who has been imprisoned since 2023, could now face a 20-year sentence for affirming that Crimea is Ukraine

• The right to life   • War crimes

Russia kills 74-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner abducted from occupied Enerhodar

Russia bears full responsibility for the torment and death in its captivity of Oleksandr Markov whose health would have already been gravely undermined by being held incommunicado, and certainly denied proper medical care for almost a year

• War crimes   • Events

Russia bans Internet searches for ‘extremist material’, broadening scope for terror in occupied Ukraine

This is the first time that Russia has introduced prosecution for a Google search, with even Putin chief propagandist indignant, albeit only because it will make denunciations more difficult

• War crimes

Horrific sentences on absurd ‘spying’ charges in occupied Luhansk oblast

Sentences of up to 18 years were passed against Ukrainian citizens, living on Ukrainian territory yet accused of having passed on information about the deployment of the Russian invaders to Ukrainian defenders

• War crimes

From torture to indefinite punitive psychiatry in Russia’s savage persecution of Melitopol Telegram administrator

Mark Kaliush and several other administrators of Ukrainian Telegram channels were seized two years ago and probably tortured for a Russian propaganda video

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean student refuses to 'repent' for the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar flags and the words Crimea is Ukraine

This was one of the countless occasions where Crimean SMERSH was used to hunt down Crimeans expressing support for Ukraine, but it did not go to plan, with Elnaz Charukhova refusing to give the standard 'videoed apology'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Ukrainian political prisoner issues urgent appeal over ‘Gestapo-like’ treatment in Russian women’s prison

Iryna Danilovych, whose appeal conceals all of the prisoners, is herself a victim of Russian lawlessness in occupied Crimea, imprisoned for her human rights work and civic journalism

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB concocts 'terrorism' charges two months after abducting 24-year-old Crimean Tatar woman

24-year-old Khatidzhe Buyukhchan was held incommunicado, without any charges laid, for 69 days, with the FSB doubtless using this time to torture or otherwise force the young woman to ‘confess’ to whatever they demanded

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mounting terror in occupied Crimea as FSB openly hide abducted Ukrainians while probably torturing out ‘confessions’

It is likely that Serhiy Hryshchenkov and many others are held without any official status to make it easier for the FSB to fabricate charges through torture and threats

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