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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’

• Events

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.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Prominent Crimean Tatar jailed and fined for telling the truth about Russia’s war against Ukraine

Zair Smedlyaev had asked, after Russia's bombing of a maternity hospital, “How many more innocent civilians, women and new-born babies, must die for the world to begin distinguishing between genocide and God knows what special operations?”

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Russian invaders are killing abducted local leader in Kherson oblast, with terror methods escalating

The Russian invaders who seized Viktor Maruniak, the Head of the Stara Zburivka Council in the Kherson oblast, three days ago are savagely torturing him and placing his very life in danger.

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Russia fails to avoid European Court accountability for its war crimes in Ukraine

Russia’s effective exclusion from the Council of Europe over its invasion of Ukraine will not mean that the gross violations of human rights it is currently committing will be outside the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights

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Ukraine Should Ratife The Rome Statute Of ICC — Euromaidan SOS appeal

We appeal to the President of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Parliament to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) without delay.

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Global Initiative ‘Breaking the Vicious Circle of Russia’s Impunity for Its War Crimes’ (also known as ‘Tribunal for Putin’)

KHPG, The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and the Center for Civil Liberties are establishing a global initiative to bring to justice the perpetrators of war crimes committed during the armed aggression of the Russia against Ukraine.

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

Russia sentences two Crimean Tatars to 17 and 13 years for talking about their faith

A Russian ‘court’ has sentenced two Crimean Tatars active in the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement to 30 years’ imprisonment for conversations back in 2016 about their religious beliefs

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Russian soldiers shoot at Kherson protesters demanding that Russia get out of Ukraine

The Russian invaders are resorting to violence as well as terror and abductions of journalists as Ukrainians continue to defend their freedom

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Russian invaders kill 96-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor

96-year-old Boris Romantschenko had survived four Nazi concentration camps but was killed by Russian invaders whose leaders are claiming that their aim is “the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine