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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russian ‘judges’ saw no problem in rubberstamping an evident and internationally condemned attack on civic journalists and activists from the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement
• Voices of war
100 days in a secret prison of the Ministry of State Security of the so-called “DPR”. 13 years in a strict regime penal colony. Beatings, simulated executions, broken ribs, and a cold basement — this is the story of civilian prisoner, neurophysiologist Yuri Shapovalov, who waited until a prisoner exchange and eventually returned home.
• War crimes
What is it like to survive in captivity, suffering from a stroke, tuberculosis, or diabetes, when instead of medical care you often receive beatings and humiliation?
Iryna Sukhodei was claimed by an invading power to have committed treason by supporting her own country
Russian ‘filtration’ measures at Sheremetyevo are making it very clear that Ukrainians are not wanted on occupied territory, with the Russian invaders effectively given carte blanche to plunder their property
50-year-old Olena Ivashina and Olha Podlesna (55) are under house arrest following the latest armed raids against men and women for studying the Bible
• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Eldar Karamurzaev is one of thirty men abducted from occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and illegally charged under Russian legislation with legal activities on Ukrainian territory
Valentyna Zayarna received a massive sentence for giving shelter to a Ukrainian defender, for trying to pick up a parcel for him and, probably, because Denys Storozhuk is safely out of Russia’s reach
She survived the betrayal of her colleagues and 45 days of Russian captivity. Larysa Fesenko, the director of a lyceum in the Kupiansk district, was thrown into a dungeon for refusing to side with the enemy and teach children under the Rushist flag.
The 20-year sentence is far worse than those regularly passed against violent criminals, with the other difference being that criminals will receive pardons and pay if they agree to fight in Ukraine
Only political prisoners get real sentences: murderers in Russia, even those who have killed multiple times, escape punishment by signing contracts to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine
With Russia having crushed any independent media in occupied Crimea and imprisoned civic journalists and activists, the lawyers defending political prisoners are often their only voice - a voice that Russia is trying to silence