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France arrests pro-Russian militant for war crimes over torture of Ukrainian hostages at Izolyatsia prison in occupied Donetsk

Ukraine will not be seeking Yevhen Brazhnikov's extradition but will provide any assistance required in a trial that is extremely welcome, if belated

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mystery ‘treason’ charges against abducted 63-year-old Oleksandr Osadchy for supporting Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Oleksandr Osadchy's grandfather was executed during the Soviet Terror in 1937. 90 years later, the Russian occupiers seized Oleksandr, held him incommunicado for over a year and may or may not have passed a horrific 18-year 'sentence'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia passes effective life sentence against 61-year-old Crimean for a video of zero interest

Despite propaganda hype, the video might just as well have been of cormorants in the Kerch Strait yet Ihor Boiko was sentenced to 18 years

Help to #FreeIrynaHorobtsova - seized by the Russians on her birthday, sentenced to 10.5 years for Ukrainian patriotism

Iryna could have left Kherson after the Russian invasion. She stayed, helping her compatriots and openly demonstrating her opposition to the invasion, for which she is paying a huge price

Yevhen Zakharov: ‘In no country have I seen such an awareness and vocal support for Ukraine as in Sweden’

In mid-May, the project, funded by the Swedish Institute (SI) and implemented by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in partnership with the Swedish organization Östgruppen för demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter, is coming to an end.

Valeriy Vakulenko sentenced to 18 years for destroying a Russian invaders' tank in March 2022

Even by Russia's very low standards, the lawlessness in this case seems quite staggering

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

ECHR orders Russia to pay compensation to Crimean Tatars arrested and prosecuted for peaceful protest

Russia will doubtless flout the European Court of Human Rights ruling, but the clear articulation of its lawless repression is, nonetheless, important

Only one Mother’s Day wish after almost 9 years of torture – Free my son, Victor Dzytsiuk!

Victor’s parents have lost their home, his father is gravely ill and Victor’s own health must have suffered from five months of savage torture at the Izolyatsia secret prison

Russia returns the bodies of 375 POWs and civilian hostages tortured to death or denied medical care

Russia also often has to be persuaded to take its own citizens, captured while fighting in Ukraine, back, making it even harder for Ukraine to secure the release in particular of civilian hostages

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia brings ‘extremism’ charges against 86-year-old Crimean Jehovah’s Witness after sentencing his son to 6 years

Oleksandr Ursu is now facing the same cynical charges and sentence as those used to imprison Oleksandr's 60-year-old son, Victor Ursu for practising his faith

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Two fake trials and 16-year sentence for pro-Ukrainian views in occupied Crimea

Even if Arseniy Diachkin's health has not been undermined by torture at the hands of the Russian FSB, he needs constant medical care because of an early injury and will doubtless not be receiving it

Melitopol hostage sentenced to 26 years for supposed attempts on the life of a Russian-installed traitor

Four men were seized on the same day in August 2023, yet the sentences against three of the men - Serhiy Chumachenko; Serhiy Dziamka and Oleksiy Popadeikin - were passed after separate fake trials and nothing is known about Petro Popadeikin

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