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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Secret Russian court upholds ‘foreign agent’ repression against Crimean Tatar human rights defender Lutfiye Zudiyeva

Russia claimed, among other things, that Zudiyeva had received foreign money because of small amounts her husband paid into her account for daily expenses

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EU follows Ukraine in holding Russians to account for illegal excavations in occupied Crimea

The sanctioning of individuals involved in Russian illegal excavations in occupied Crimea and plunder is belated, but welcome, as was the ruling in Poland opening the way for the extradition of Alexander Butyagin

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26-year-old Ukrainian sentenced to 22 years for alleged ‘plan to kill’ a Russian occupation prison chief

Victoria Kotliar was just 24 when seized by the Russians and probably tortured or threatened into ‘confessing’ on video

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Russian occupation court sentences 66-year-old doctor to 14 years for supporting Ukraine through war bonds

Larysa Bieliaieva would be 80 if she survived the 14-year sentence in the horrific conditions of Russian prisons,

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia stages fourth ‘trial’ of 67-year-old Crimean political prisoner to ensure he dies in captivity

This time ‘treason’ charges have been laid against a Ukrainian patriot targeted for his unconcealed opposition to Russia’s occupation of Crimea.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia abducts Crimean Tatar trying to see dying aunt and accuses her of ‘treason’ for donations to Ukrainian Army

43-year-old Diana Havryliuk has three children, with the younger two still not aware why their mother disappeared months ago

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian ex-military man sentenced to 18 years in Russian-occupied Crimea on surreal ‘treason’ charges

This was Act II in Russia’s double-barrel persecution of two former military servicemen – Ruslan Chorny-Shvets and Serhiy Lykhomanov

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia brings cynical new criminal charges against Crimean Tatar political prisoner with malignant brain tumour

Tofik Abdulgaziev has been charged with ‘contempt of court’ after expressing his indignation at being forced to sign a ‘clean bill of health’, a document that his brain tumour made him unable to read

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Terror unrelenting as Russian courts uphold 15-year sentences for ‘treason’ against an invader

Niyara Ermambetova was seized just days after her mother’s funeral, with her elderly father now left to look after her two children. It is not known when Oksana Invanchenko was abducted, but she has four children

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55-year-old from Russian-occupied Skadovsk sentenced to 12 years for supporting Ukraine

Natalia Povietkina is one of almost two thousand civilians effectively abducted since Russia's invasion of parts of Kherson oblast. Some have been tortured but then released. some were tortured to death and many are imprisoned on grotesque charges

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Children abducted from occupied Ukraine 'offered' on state adoption site in Russia

The new study, which proves the lie to Russia’s denial that it is permanently deporting Ukrainian children comes soon after a UN Commission report identified such acts as both war crimes and crimes against humanity

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Putin rubberstamped indefinite imprisonment without charges for opposing Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

The secret ‘decision’ allowing enforcement bodies to abduct and hold people incommunicado was issued just two weeks after the full-scale invasion began