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Russian invaders seize Ukrainian journalist, take her to occupied Donetsk ‘for trial’

Zaporizhzhia journalist Iryna Dubchenko has been taken prisoner by the invaders who told her that, if she didn't have a small child, they would have shot her on the spot

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Russian invaders abduct Mayor of Prymorsk Oleksandr Koshelevych after first taking his elderly father hostage

Oleksandr Koshelevych is one of around 30 local politicians, journalists and civic activists who have been seized since the beginning of Russia’s invasion and whose whereabouts remain unknown. 

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Russia waited till Ukrainian civilians reached work to bomb Mykolaiv Regional Administration

No let up in Russian terror in Kharkiv, Severodonetsk and other cities in Ukraine

• War crimes   • Research

Summary of events that took place in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region during the first 30 days of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war (February 24 – March 25, 2022)

The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group is documenting international crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes) allegedly committed by the Russian occupiers in Kharkiv and Kharkiv Oblast. In this article we publish a summary of the events that took place in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region during the first 30 days of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war (February 24 – March 25, 2022). The information in this publication is approximate, based on the data we have collected and needs clarification.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Final brutality in Russia’s revenge imprisonment of renowned Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal

It is every Crimean Tatar son’s duty, when the time comes, to bid a fitting farewell to his parents, yet a Russian-controlled court in Crimea has refused to allow political prisoner Nariman Dzhelyal to attend the funeral of his father, Enver Dzhelyal.

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Almost 400 Russian war crimes already documented in Ukraine

The International Criminal Court had begun investigating likely war crimes within just over a week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and a Ukrainian coalition has already documented 388 such crimes.

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Russia has bombed or shelled at least 136 hospitals in Kharkiv, Mariupol and other Ukrainian cities

The latest shelling of a hospital in Kharkiv left four dead, and injured three, with the hospital hit also a humanitarian aid centre

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

Crimean Tatar veteran activist faces 20 years in Russian prison for somebody else’s voice on a tape

Independent experts have confirmed that Azamat Eyupov’s voice is not on the taped conversation about religion and Russian persecution which Russia’s FSB is using as alleged grounds for a prison sentence of up to 20 years

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Russian invaders intensify abductions and terror against Ukrainian civic activists and journalists

Russian soldiers have been targeting activists, journalists and local politicians in all towns and cities they have seized, with the latest victim Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov, a civic activist and journalist from Prymorsk

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Russia continues bombing Mariupol while producing propaganda videos about its ‘humanitarian aid’

While mercilessly razing Mariupol to the ground and refusing to provide safe corridors, Russia is also organizing propaganda stunts with ‘refugees’ taken to Russia or occupied Crimea, or given ‘humanitarian aid’

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Position of the participants of the CivilMPlus platform on EU assistance to Ukraine

Statements by some Western European politicians that only Putin is responsible for the war are an unforgivable simplification in matters of personal and collective resp. for unleashing and waging an aggressive war, war crimes and violations of int. law.

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HUMANITARIAN MANIFESTO

"It is our common duty to stop the war and to protect the lives, rights and freedoms of all people, both Ukrainians and Russians," the members of Council of Russian Human Rights Defenders say.