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Russia abducts 18-year-old from occupied Melitopol, sentences her two years later to 18 years for photos of FSB

Daria Kulik was just 17 when the Russians invaded her native Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia oblast. They took her prisoner a year later

Final blow to Ukrainians on occupied territory as Russia blocks private calls through WhatsApp and Telegram

Russia is aggressively seeking to block truthful information and contact between Ukrainians that it is unable to control

• On refugees

Borisov Case a Test of Ukraine’s Commitment to European Human Rights Standards

Human rights activists are calling for refugee status to be granted to Russian citizen Ivan Borisov, who faces imprisonment in the Russian Federation.

Russia uses lawless 'terrorism' ruling to pass huge sentences against Ukrainian POWs for defending Mariupol

Russia was recently forced to reveal a Supreme Court ruling from 2 August 2022, banning the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Azov Regiment. The ruling only confirms the lack of any justification and total contempt for the law behind the ban

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB escalate abductions and terror against women in occupied Crimea

Three women who vanished in March 2024, as well as Tetiana Shtrifanova, whom the FSB abducted in February 2025 are being held incommunicado, without any legal status or charges having been laid

Ukrainian media forcibly replaced on occupied territory with ‘Russian World’ propaganda

Putin has also signed into law the effective criminalization of Internet searches for what is called ‘extremist’ content and the use of VPNs to access ‘prohibited’ sites, all dangerously broad terms covering just about everything Ukrainian

Russians bomb, pillage, rape and murder Ukrainians, then force their children to study ‘Russian traditional values’

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been plugging such ‘values’ for years, with the lack of any clear definition increasing the scope for abuse

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mother and daughter sentenced to 12 years in Russia’s conveyor belt ‘treason trials’ in occupied Crimea

The blitzkrieg nature of the ‘trials’ of Victoria Strilets and her daughter Oleksandra, as well as of Oleksandr Osadchy, are typical of all such ‘trials’ where convictions and long sentences are guaranteed

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner suffers life-threatening hypertensive crisis in Russian prison

Amet Suleimanov’s life is being placed in danger as reprisal for his earlier journalist work in reporting on repression in occupied Crimea for the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean woman sentenced to 22 years for an invented ‘terrorist attack on a Russian military officer

The sentence against Nadiya Hrekova, who has two children, is of unprecedented ferocity, while the charges seem extremely implausible

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea • Events

Ukrainian political prisoner abducted and given a new sentence after 8 years in Russian prison

Hennadiy Lymeshko had been held incommunicado for six months, with the FSB typically using such isolation to torture its victims

Mariupol teenager sentenced to 7 years for supposed ‘treason’ against Russia in supporting Ukraine

Oleksandr Syrov was 14 when the Russians began bombing and besieging his native Mariupol. Three years later, the FSB came for him, accusing him of ‘treason’ and ‘spying’ for Ukraine

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