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Chilling surveillance methods as Russia sentences Ukrainian to 10 years for donation to defend Ukraine

It is possible that the mounting number of sentences against Ukrainians for donating money to help Ukraine's Armed Forces are aimed in part at terrorising the population, not least with the sense that surveillance is total

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Russia sentences 17-year-old lad from occupied Ukraine to 6.5 years on ‘treason’ charges

Age is no obstacle in Russia’s abductions, fake ‘trials’ and even killing of Ukrainians on occupied territory

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia seeks effective death sentence against 69-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner and horrific sentences against five others

Both Khalil Mambetov and his wife had serious health issues even before Russia's FSB ignored his age and charged him with 'violently planning to overthrow the regime with words and books

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With nine children killed in Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih, why would the USA (again) avoid blaming Russia?

Not naming Russia as perpetrator of a horrific attack on a restaurant and children’s playground may avoid annoying Putin’s investment envoy, but it will not bring peace any closer

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian occupiers terrorize and threaten wife of Crimean political prisoner Vadim Siruk

"The real terrorists are those who burst into the homes of people peacefully sleeping, who intimidate people who tell the truth; and who imprison people for their political and religious views.” - Vadim Siruk

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18-year-old escapes Russian-occupied Luhansk in search of “Ukraine and freedom”

Ivan Sarancha was just 15 when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine but he understood the lies that Russia was telling, about Mariupol and Bucha, and understood that he stood with Ukraine

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Russia forcibly disappears young Ukrainian from occupied Kherson oblast, then fabricates ‘trial’ and 18-year sentence

It is, unfortunately, very likely that Solodky was tortured after his abduction by the Russians, with the charges against him totally illegal, whether the young Ukrainian was involved in resistance work or not

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Desperate SOS as Russia upholds brutally cynical sentence against abducted Kherson activist Iryna Horobtsova

Iryna Horobtsova was victim of a Russian enforced disappearance, with the aggressor state holding her incommunicado for two years before fabricating charges that incriminate them

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Ukrainian political prisoners forced through torture to reject lawyers and to sing Russian anthem

Nine men abducted from Kherson and tortured for 'confessions' are now again facing torture in Russian SIZO-1 in Rostov, which is rapidly becoming as notorious as the Taganrog prison where 27-year-old journalist Victoria Roshchyna died

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Entire Ukrainian family seized in latest Russian terror in occupied Crimea

The fact that the FSB concealed the whereabouts of Tetiana Maliar, her brother and adult son and daughter for a week after they were taken away is likely to mean that they were subjected to torture

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Crimean sentenced to 15 years for donation to rescue children from Russian-occupied territory

30-year-old Vladyslav Afanasiev has been denied contact with his family and healthcare since his ‘arrest’ in the summer of 2024 on surreal ‘treason’ charges

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Russia’s supreme court supports abduction, torture and lawless sentence against Ukrainian journalist Serhiy Tsyhipa

Witnessed by international observers, Russian ‘judges’ chose to condone a horrific 13-year sentence against a Ukrainian citizen for having, on Ukrainian territory, informed of the movements of the invading Russian army