Menu
All publications
All 1964 Events 161 Analytics 1 Research 27 Interview 220 Publicistics 14 Announcements 4

• War crimes

Ukrainian in Russia for her brother’s funeral sentenced to 12 years for 16 donations to Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Tetiana Omelchenko is one of a mounting number of Ukrainians sentenced to horrific terms of imprisonment merely for supporting the Armed Forces defending Ukraine

• War crimes

Uncle Vanya, Bison, San Sanych — who tortures Ukrainian prisoners of war?

Ukrainians returning from captivity will undoubtedly never forget those who turned their lives in imprisonment into hell. Everything is known about some of the torturers. Others hide behind a call sign. After a “working day,” these “San Sanych”-es wash the blood off their hands and go home to hug their wives and children.

• Voices of war

‘I’m afraid I’ll be kidnapped and taken to Russia’

Obtaining political asylum in Ukraine for someone with Russian citizenship isn’t easy, even if they defend Ukrainian interests and could face imprisonment on terrorism charges in Russia.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russians imprison two Crimean Tatar brothers on lawless charges, and move into one of their homes

Russian prisons and the failure to provide medical care have taken a huge toll on 54-year-old Rustem Gugurik’s health, and, almost certainly, on his 62-year-old brother Bekir, whom Russia is hiding

• War crimes

Doctor first abducted from occupied Donbas in 2015 sentenced to 15 years ‘for spying for Ukraine’

Serhiy Petryk spoiled the propaganda video which is one of the reasons for these travesties, by saying he was innocent and a Ukrainian citizen, and doing so in Ukrainian

• Prohibition of discrimination   • Social and economic rights

Appeal dismissed against crucial Ukrainian court ruling recognizing a single-sex couple as de facto married

The Kyiv Court of Appeal found that the earlier ruling had, in no way, obstructed the civic organization ‘All together’ from observing the ‘traditional family values’ they espouse

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean Tatar political prisoner subjected to ominous new wave of torture

The FSB first grabbed Mamut Belyalov and savagely tortured him for fake ‘confessions’ when he was just 24. He is now 26, and already serving a monstrous 12-year sentence

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Brutal cruelty against Crimean Tatar mother and her family in Russia’s witch hunt for ‘Ukrainian spies’

Niyara Ersmambetova is one of an ever-increasing number of women on occupied territory whom Russia has abducted and accused of secret ‘treason’ charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Nine years in Russian captivity after Russia’s ‘shoddiest’ show trial and no end in sight?

Three Ukrainians were seized in November 2016 because Russia's FSB wanted to stage a new 'Crimean saboteur' show trial. All remain imprisoned, serving horrific sentences despite evidently absurd charges and sloppily fabricated 'evidence'

• War crimes

Telling omissions in Russia's show trial claiming Ukraine’s use of 'chemical weapons of mass destruction'

Russia used Diliaver Kurshutov, and an elderly couple from occupied Melitopol, for bizarre claims involving chemical weapons supposedly used by the USA and other NATO countries

• War crimes

Russian prison identified where Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna and Yevhen Matvieiev died after being tortured

Victoria Roshchyna’s transfer to the prison in Perm region was tantamount to torture given her emaciation and the torture she had endured. 63-year-old Dniprorudne Mayor Yevhen Matvyeyev was effectively beaten to death

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Relentless medical torture of Crimean Tatar human rights defender in Russian prison

It is likely that some of Emir-Usein Kuku’s medical issues are because of the torture the FSB subjected him to, with Russia now resorting to medical torture, by denying him basic treatment

  « 11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  » »» ... 164