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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia resorts to undisguised fabrication for ‘trial’ of prominent Crimean Tatar journalist and Mejlis leader

Russia wants to sentence Nariman Dzhelyal, internationally renowned Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader, journalist and civic activist, to 15 or 20 years for a fictitious act of sabotage with the only ‘evidence’ provided by equally fictitious anonymous witnesses

Russia is forcibly ‘mobilizing’ Ukrainians from occupied territory to fight its war against Ukraine

Russia has reportedly begun forced ‘mobilization’ in those parts of the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Kharkiv oblasts under its occupation

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

Seven Jehovah’s Witnesses put on trial in Russian-occupied Crimea for studying the Bible

On 9 April 2022, a Russian court revoked the first and only acquittal of a Ukrainian believer since Russia’s ban of the Jehovah’s Witnesses five years ago and its illegal repression in occupied Crimea

• Voices of war • Interview

‘I washed and buried my brother riddled with shrapnel, and his bloodied and wounded mother was barely in time for the burial…’

Olena Vasylieva from Luhansk region, like most residents of the region, fell into the vortex of war twice – in 2014 and now. On March 4, her cousin died of her injuries. He was buried in a black bag, there were no coffin any more...

Russians abduct Prymorsk civic activist who protested their invasion of Ukraine

The Russian invaders are continuing to instil terror and try to stifle resistance by seizing local public officials; civic activists and journalist from occupied territory in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia ‘sentences’ Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev for seeking to enter his native Crimea

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has found Mustafa Dzhemilev ‘guilty’ of three preposterous charges brought against the world-renowned Crimean Tatar leader and Ukrainian MP

Mass grave near Mariupol could contain up to nine thousand victims of the Russian invaders

Satellite images have identified what appears to be a mass grave which the Mariupol city authorities believe could hold the bodies of from 3 – 9,000 civilians

Raped, shot and thrown in a mass grave by the Russian invaders who turned Bucha into hell

Karina Yershova fled with her parents from the Russians who seized control of Donetsk in 2014. She was 23 when Russians invaded her new home in Bucha (Kyiv oblast), raped and shot her dead, leaving her body in a mass grave

Ukrainian Holocaust survivor dies in a Mariupol basement, seeking refuge from Russian bombs

Vanda Obiedkova survived in a Mariupol basement after the Nazis came for her family. 81 years later, she died in a bitterly cold Mariupol basement where she and her family were forced to seek shelter from Russian bombs.

Fake ‘referendums’ at gunpoint planned to try to ‘legitimize’ Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Not only are the Russian invaders continuing to occupy parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, but they have already staged one fake ‘referendum’ and are reportedly planning others to try to ‘legalize’ occupation administrations

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

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar to 17 years for solidarity with political prisoners

A court in Russia has sentenced Emil Ziyadinov to 17 years after a farcical ‘trial’ that made no pretence of trying to prove that the 37-year-old Crimean Solidarity civic activist had committed anything but ‘thought crimes’

Russia is bombing Azovstal in Mariupol where 1,000 civilians, including many children, are sheltering

Ukrainian marine commander Serhiy Volyna has appealed to the Pope to intercede and writes that Mariupol under Russian siege is what hell looks like

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