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Merciless brutality against 74-year-old Donetsk hostage imprisoned since 2018 for supporting Ukraine

Frustration and despair are inevitable when 74-year-old Vitaly Atamanchuk, and other hostages, imprisoned for their pro-Ukrainian position, are constantly passed over in exchange lists

Russians execute two unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war

This second such execution in May alone comes just a few months after UN monitors expressed alarm over the huge increase and pointed to Russians’ impunity and the constant incitement to commit such war crimes

They let you talk to a prisoner and then blackmail you into committing sabotage

Russian special services are trying to use the families of prisoners of war for criminal actions.

Abducted, tortured and sentenced to 13 years in Russian captivity for letters to Ukrainian defender husband

Yulia Koveshnikova was abducted because of her pro-Ukrainian views and her soldier husband. She was held prisoner in a pit, with her captors beating her around the head for every word she spoke in Ukrainian

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Server Mustafayev, renowned Crimean Tatar political prisoner, receives Freedom House award for exemplary courage

Server Mustafayev “chose not to be silent” about Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea. Russia’s vengeance against him and other Crimean Solidarity journalists has been savage

10-year sentence in torture-based ‘Ukrainian saboteur plot’ for Russian propaganda

Although one of countless sentences passed for supposed 'plots' thwarted by Russia's FSB, this is the first of three sentences against abducted civilians, including a 74-year-old with major health issues who cannot walk without a stick

Yevhen Zakharov: Ukrainians are tortured in Russian captivity to break them physically and morally

Mordovia, Grozny, and even distant Minusinsk - human rights activists have already identified 127 places of imprisonment where the Russians are holding our citizens. We talked to the director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Yevhen Zakharov, about which institutions our prisoners are held in, whether the conditions of detention are the same, and how many Ukrainians end up on trial in the Russian Federation.

Russia escalates ‘mobilization terror’ on occupied territory to get Ukrainians to fight its war against Ukraine

It was always clear that one of the reasons why Russia pushed its citizenship on occupied territory was to enable illegal mobilization and use Ukrainians as cannon fodder for its war of aggression

• Against torture and ill-treatment

Concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture on Ukraine’s seventh periodic report

In April, the UN reviewed another report from our country on the implementation of the provisions of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. We are publishing the conclusions, recommendations, and observations of the UN Committee against Torture.

Ukrainian abducted from Kherson sentenced to 17 years for attack on Russian collaborator

Russia has been mercilessly bombing civilians in Kherson since the latter was liberated, yet claimed that Andriy Serezhenko’s alleged involvement in a legitimate attack on a Russian-installed traitor was ‘international terrorism’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia escalates persecution, labelling renowned Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights defender a ‘foreign agent’

This is the latest of several attacks on Lutfiye Zudiyeva and clearly aimed at silencing the courageous Crimean Solidarity coordinator, whose male colleagues have ended up receiving massive sentences for refusing to be stifled

Three Russian ‘courts’ call defending Ukraine and obstructing invaders ‘international terrorism’

Pavlo Zaporozhets was serving his country when abducted by the Russians, tortured and then sentenced to 12 years maximum-security imprisonment

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