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Russia uses abducted Ukrainians for propaganda video claiming Ukraine is bombing ‘liberated’ Melitopol

It is near certain that the men gave their supposed ‘confessions’ under torture, with the video yet another extraordinary attempt by Russia to try against all evidence, to blame the Ukrainian Armed Forces for its bombing and shelling of civilians

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Ukrainian POWs and abducted civilian hostages illegally imprisoned in Russian-occupied Crimea

Since the beginning of Russia’s total invasion, Russian soldiers have been abducting Ukrainian civilians, many of whom are held prisoner in occupied Crimea

• Events

International appeal: ‘Let’s not get into the wrong fight! We must support the Ukrainians without thinking twice or holding back’

‘In most of our countries, however, too many people have sided with the Russian dictator. In the name of an anti-imperialism that has turned into passionate hatred over the years, they are applauding anyone who is opposing the West’ – more than eighty writers and academics call on «all those who demand freedom for themselves» to «stand with the Ukrainians.»

• other   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Prohibited remembrance of Crimean Tatar genocide and mounting terror in Russian occupied Crimea

Those who believe that Ukraine must accept Russia’s occupation of Crimea so that Putin can ‘save face’ should bear in mind the mounting persecution of Crimean Tatars including in areas recently invaded

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Artist disappears after arrest for pro-Ukrainian anti-war protest in Russian occupied Crimea

The whereabouts are unknown of Yevpatoria artist Bohdan Ziza {Azizov) who was detained for a pro-Ukrainian protest in the centre of occupied Yevpatoria on 16 May.

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

Russia re-arrests the only Crimean Tatar political prisoner it ever acquitted

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov (Russia) has rearrested Ernes Ametov, almost two years after the Crimean Tatar civic journalist and Crimean Solidarity photographer was acquitted on identical charges by that same court

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After destroying Mariupol, Russia offers its victims money but only if they agree to blame Ukraine

The Mariupol city authorities have learned of yet another attempt by Russia to blame Ukraine for the carnage and devastation the world has witnessed Russian inflicting upon the Ukrainian port city

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Mariupol Moses’: A Man Who Took 117 People Out Of The Besieged City On Foot

Oleksiy Symonov is a charismatic sports host. He says that the most important thing is communication — it often helped him not only to survive, but to also take all of his shelter’s companions out of Mariupol.

• Freedom of expression   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB threaten to kill Ukrainian civic journalist and force her into signing blank ‘confessions’

Iryna Danilovych was held incommunicado for 12 days, with the first eight secretly held and placed under massive pressure by the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea

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Russia deports Ukrainians to occupied Donbas, forcing them to fight its war against Ukraine

Russia has a problem manning its aggression against Ukraine, and one of the methods it is using is forcing Ukrainians from occupied territory to fight against their fellow Ukrainians

• Voices of war   • Interview

A resident of Mariupol is telling how she found civilians killed by a sniper

On the second attempt Olena Yakhontova was able to leave Mariupol with her three children. The kindergarten in which she used to work was leveled. Chechens now live in her house and give the flats to everyone who wants them.

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

Monstrous sentences in Russia’s war against Crimean Tatar civic activists and their children

Five Crimean Tatar civic activists have been sentenced to 12 and 14 years’ imprisonment without any crime and solely on the basis of ‘anonymous witnesses’ who had probably never set eyes on them