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A reliable tool in the hands of human rights defenders: how the KHPG database works

Convenient systematization, reliable archiving, and high speed of processing a large amount of information — all these make the database that KHPG fills during the search for missing and captured Ukrainians unique.

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

Russia’s selective ‘terrorism’ in war against Ukraine and in fraternizing with the Taliban

Moscow’s rapprochement with the Taliban coincides with its sharp escalation in fabricated ‘terrorism’ charges against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs

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Horrific sentences demanded against five Ukrainians abducted from Russian-occupied Melitopol

Russia began openly abducting and torturing civilians with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and has used tortured-out ‘confessions’ to concoct extraordinarily cynical charges of ‘international terrorism’

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Darya Kozyreva gets real prison term for Taras Shevchenko poem and opposition to Russia’s war against Ukraine

While Putin pardons and 'honours' convicted killers and other mercenaries, the regime imprisons young people like Darya Kozyreva who refuse to remain silence about Russia's monstrous war against Ukraine and its war crimes

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Russia intensifies plunder in policy to bring in Russians and eliminate Ukrainian identity in occupied Ukraine

While ‘deporting’ Ukrainians and appropriating their property, Russia is planning to settle at least five million Russians in occupied Ukraine by 2030

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chilling silence 13 months after enforced disappearance of Crimean Anatoliy Kobzar

It is likely that 45-year-old Anatoliy Kobzar was targeted because of his pro-Ukrainian views, with the FSB holding him incommunicado and probably tortured while they fabricate charges

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Student abducted when he was 18 faces 20-year sentence for remaining true to Ukraine, not Russia

Vladyslav Vidlatsky has been in Russian captivity for two years, with the charges against him very likely to be solely based on 'confessions' extracted through torture

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Russia sentences another Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee to 14 years for supporting Ukraine

Russia began abducting and torturing Ukrainian employees of the nuclear plant back in 2022, with Lilia Kachkariova the latest of several women to have been targeted

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Ukraine frees abducted teacher after four years of torment in Russian-occupied Donetsk

Natalia Shylo was seized and imprisoned on fake ‘spying’ charges based on social media posts when she tried to visit her sick mother in occupied Horlivka

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Russia passes copy-pasted 12-year ‘spying sentence almost three years after abducting Ukrainian teenager

Artem Kudzhanov was just 19 when seized by the Russians, tortured and forcibly disappeared, with the 'spying' charges only appearing very recently

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Terrifying twist in Russia’s persecution of Ukrainian political prisoner Hennadiy Lymeshko

One politically motivated sentence which cost Hennadiy Lymeshko 8 years of his life and his daughter’s childhood would appear to not satisfy the Russians who have taken him prisoner again

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Ukrainian abducted to Russia and sentenced to 18 years for defending Ukraine in 2015

Russia is turning both the law and history upside down in surreal ‘trials’ based on a flawed ruling passed many years after the Ukrainians served in legal divisions of Ukraine’s Armed Forces