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Russian invaders fill occupied Donbas with ‘monuments’ rewriting history and inciting hatred to Ukraine

Russia began pushing lies about its military aggression back in 2014. Having brought in torture chambers and draconian laws against those who question the lies, it is erecting cynical monuments

Three years of Russian captivity and torture in reprisal for affirming that Crimea is Ukraine

Russia’s treatment of all Ukrainian prisoners of war is brutal, and those like Crimean civic activist, Crimean Realities journalist and Mariupol defender Denys Matsola are at particular risk for their support of Ukraine and demolition of Russia's lies

Russia sentences Ukrainian from Melitopol to 27 years for a cake for fighter pilots

The speed with which Yehor Semionov was seized makes it possible that his place of birth was the determining factor and not hard evidence

Russian torturers can get a ‘confession’ to JFK’s assassination and the court will swallow it

Five Ukrainians from occupied Melitopol, who were abducted back in April 2022, have received huge sentences despite surreal charges backed only by ‘confessions’ extracted through torture

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

Certain death warrant as six Crimean Tatar activists sentenced to 14 years ‘for refusing to be silent’ about Russian repression

14 years for discussing daily prayers and other aspects of the men’s faith – and for refusing to remain silent about Russia’s lawless repression in occupied Crimea

Russian court upholds abduction, savage torture and insane sentence against Melitopol volunteer Yaroslav Zhuk

Russia claimed that an alleged attack on a collaborator helping the invaders constituted ‘international terrorism’ and subjected Yaroslav Zhuk to horrific torture in order to extract a ‘confession’

Putin calls murderous attack on Sumy ‘revenge’ amid massive increase in Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians

While Putin focuses on the bloody attack on Palm Sunday, UN human rights monitors have recorded a terrifying escalation in such atrocities against civilians with 151 people at least killed just since the beginning of April

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

Even Russian prison service asks to release blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov

Russia’s FSB, prosecutors and ‘judges’ were willing to sentence Sizikov to 17 years and send him to Siberia for speaking out about repression in occupied Crimea

Meeting with Representatives of Ukrainian Roma in Brussels

Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” continues to highlight the challenges faced by Roma communities in Ukraine. This year, with the support of IPHR is organized a meeting with Roma veterans who voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Donbas hostages savagely tortured for ‘confessions’ in 2019 sentenced in Russia to 24 years

Russia’s ‘trial’’ of Andriy Harrius, Yuriy Ivanov and Stanislav Surovtsev, who were seized and tortured by an illegal armed formation which Russia had not recognized could not be more incriminating

Russia returns body of abducted Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna with scars from torture

Russia took six months to return Victoria’s body in a state making it difficult to determine the cause of death. They could not, however, conceal the evidence of torture

Huge sentences and videoed ‘repentance’ in Russia’s mounting terror in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

A Russian occupation ‘court’ has sentenced a Ukrainian woman in her fifties to 14 years’ imprisonment for supporting the military unit that her Ukrainian defender son is serving in

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