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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian medical torture and effective death sentences for civic activism in occupied Crimea

Russia falsifies medical records and openly flout its own legislation in order to carry out reprisals to the end against Crimean Tatar and other Crimean political prisoners savagely persecuted for their refusal to remain silent

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Ukrainian sentenced to 20 years for “wanting to blow up railway’ used for Russia’s war against Ukraine

Andriy Diachenko may or may not have been a ‘railway partisan’, but he is undoubtedly a victim of Russia’s brazen persecution of Ukrainians on illegally occupied territory

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Crimean gets long sentence for opposing invasion while Russian politicians freely incite to genocide against Ukraine

Serhiy Tubolets is the latest victim of Russia's use of flawed 'terrorism' legislation in its arsenal against Ukrainians

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Russia causes humanitarian disaster in occupied Oleshky while blocking any escape

Locals suspect that they are not being allowed out of Oleshky deliberately as the Russians need them there as human shields while carrying out systematic attacks on Kherson from the city.

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Anna Bazikalo sentenced to 16 years two years after her abduction from Russian occupied Luhansk oblast

Even by Russian standards, the sentence was brutal and handed down after almost two years of being held incommunicado

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Russia sentences former Ukrainian defender to 19 years after torturing out a backdated ‘confession’

This latest fake trial of a Ukrainian for defending his country is especially cynical as Dmytro Nosenko’s captors tortured out a grotesque ‘confession’ to involvement in a ‘terrorist organization’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Terror behind closed doors: Russia’s abductions, torture and monstrous sentences in occupied Crimea

The massive spike in surreal 'treason' trials and sentences is continuing, with less and less known about each victim invariably identifying as opponents of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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Russia imposes criminal liability for denying previously unknown ‘genocide of the Soviet people’

The new law will further silence historical discussion and strengthen punitive measures already used against those who speak honestly about Soviet crimes, including the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people

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Melitopol IT specialist sentenced to 20 years after Russians torture out a ‘confession’ to ‘terrorist plans’

Artyom Krasko was abducted almost two and a half years ago from his native Melitopol, with it likely that he was held incommunicado without any procedural status

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia brings new 5-year sentence against Crimean political prisoner over 2022 social media post

Valery Shevchuk is one of a rapidly increasing number of Ukrainians imprisoned for criticism of Russian aggression, with the fact that this can be over very old social media posts especially chilling

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Russian judge convicted of war crimes over massive sentence against Ukrainian POW for defending his country

Sergei Obraztsov was well-aware that he was in violation of the Geneva Convention and fundamental principles of law when he sentenced 18-year-old Vladyslav Plakhotnik to 18 years for serving in a Ukrainian Armed Forces regiment

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Russia tortures two young Melitopol schoolboys to death, passes long sentences against three other lads

It is near certain that all five lads, aged 16 and 17, were tortured, with Viktor Azarovsky, Oleh Shokol and Denys Vasyliuk later subjected to a predetermined 'trial'. Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak died in Russian captivity