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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia rubberstamps 15-year ‘treason’ sentence against 58-year-old Crimean activist Oksana Senedzhuk

It is extremely likely that Oksana Senedzhuk was targeted because of her pro-Ukrainian position and open opposition to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine

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Ukrainian preschoolers turned into ‘Russia’s little soldiers’ in occupied Luhansk

Russia observes no minimum age for its aggressive militarization of Ukrainian children and attempts to brainwash them into wanting to ‘defend’ the invader

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Ukrainians sentenced to 24 and 17 years for alleged 'terrorist' plot against Russian invaders in 2022

Russia's use of 'terrorism' charges over an alleged plan to blow up a Russian military convoy that had no right to be on Ukrainian territory is only one of many suspicious aspects to this case

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Russia ruled responsible for the downing of MH17 over occupied Ukraine and killing of 298 passengers and crew

Russia is likely to stall and obstruct efforts to obtain legal redress, but the Civil Aviation Organization’s ruling is unprecedented and damning

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Russian invaders erect monument to Soviet dictator Stalin in occupied Melitopol

Russia is now importing its mounting glorification of a mass murderer responsible for acts of genocide against the Crimean Tatar people, and, through Holodomor, against Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia threatens Crimean Tatar political prisoners with deportation to Uzbekistan

The move would be cynical and lawless, however Russia has already forcibly deported one human rights activist. They also killed recognized refugee Nabi Rahimov and then sent his wife back to Uzbekistan where she faced religious persecution

• War crimes

Creation of Special Tribunal over Russia’s aggression against Ukraine leaves Putin frustratingly out of reach

While fixation with Vladimir Putin’s role cannot diminish the guilt of others implicated in Russia’s aggression, how can justice be served by not holding him and Sergei Lavrov accountable?

• War crimes

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant guard savagely tortured to blame Ukraine for Russia’s war crimes

Having committed international crimes through its war of aggression and atrocities against Ukraine, Russia is using abductions and torture to try to blame Ukraine for its crimes

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Russia intensifies ‘filtration’ terror to keep Ukrainians from occupied Ukraine and steal their homes

Russia is making it harder and harder for Ukrainians to reach their homes on occupied territory, while also threatening Ukrainians who remained under Russian occupation with deportation if they do not accept Russian citizenship.

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

19-year sentence for Crimean Solidarity journalism not enough – Russia steps up persecution of Remzi Bekirov

Russia used religious faith as pretext for massive sentences against Remzi Bekirov and 24 other Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists and is now weaponizing it again to make his life even more difficult in Russian prison

• War crimes

Russians gun down three unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war as proof mounts of high-level orders to kill

This latest execution of unarmed men comes amid mounting evidence that such executions are state policy and that Russian commanders have issued orders not to take prisoners

• War crimes

Mariupol ex-policewoman sentenced to 18 years for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

In Russia's cynical 'Newspeak', its savage destruction of Mariupol was 'liberation' and those, like Aliona Holtvenko and Oleksandr Saakian, who refused to collaborate and helped the defenders of Ukraine are 'terrorists'