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ECHR finds Russia responsible for downing MH17; summary executions; torture & other mass-scale crimes in Ukraine

The European Court of Human Rights judgement is damning and especially important in highlighting the scale of Russia’s crimes against Ukraine and its denial of Ukraine’s right to exist

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea • Events

Political prisoner Andriy Kolomiyets still trapped in Russia after serving all of a 10-year sentence in revenge for Maidan

Andriy was subjected to savage torture and imprisoned on insane charges for ten years, yet is still effectively held in Russia, with other Ukrainians facing the same problems

Abducted, raped and tortured, Natalia Kozhemiatska faces huge sentence in Russia on fabricated charges

Natalia was savagely raped and tortured by the Russians who abducted her in May 2024, and has been imprisoned ever since, with her family seriously concerned about her state of health

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Head of traditionally Moscow-affiliated Ukrainian Orthodox Church stripped of his citizenship

Questions are inevitable, especially given the SBU’s serious allegations and the fact that the Russian citizenship was known about since 2023

Russia stages terror arrests in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast for donations to Ukraine’s Armed Forces

The good news is that Russia remains unable to overcome resistance to its occupation. The bad news is that there are no methods of terror that the invaders will not use

Ukrainian POW sentenced to 23 years for ‘‘British training in sabotage’ and attack on effective Russian military base

The illegal charges against Yevhen Horin were probably based solely on ‘confessions’ extracted to torture, with Russia further claiming that it was the British who trained Horin in ‘sabotage’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

No mercy to the end in Russia’s brutal reprisals against Ivan Yatskin and his family in occupied Crimea

Ukrainian political prisoner Ivan Yatskin, who is serving an 11-year sentence for opposing Russia’s occupation of Crimea, has been forced to learn of his mother’s death by telephone while imprisoned four thousand kilometres from his family

Huge revenge sentences for elimination of Russian commander suspected of killing 59 civilians at Hroza funeral wake

After murdering 59 civilians, including a child, in a Kharkiv oblast village, Russia claimed that the death of a military commander believed responsible was an ‘act of terrorism’

Russia reacts with threats, lies and fake ‘tribunal’ to pivotal move on accountability for its war of aggression against Ukraine

The ballast and intimidation came as Ukraine and the Council of Europe signed a vital agreement on creating a Special Tribunal to provide justice over Russia's crime of aggression

Ukrainian hostage from occupied Luhansk oblast found in Russian prison after four years of torture

Kostiantyn Kalinchenko was first ‘sentenced’ by a fake, Russian-controlled occupation 'court't to 12 years on ‘treason’ charges, with this nonsense against a Ukrainian citizen then repeated in a revamped Russian sentence

Oksana Fedorova sentenced to over 10 years for ‘endangering Russian security’ on occupied Ukrainian territory

The 53-year-old from occupied Kherson oblast was formally ‘arrested’ months after being abducted and held incommunicado by the Russian invaders of her Ukrainian home

• Freedom of conscience and religion • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Prosecution witness confirms lack of any grounds for Russia’s 'terrorism' charges against Crimean Tatar civic activists

The testimony from a former employee of the Crimean Muftiate totally rejected the surreal and immensely cynical ‘terrorism’ charges which Russia is using to crush the Crimean Tatar human rights movement

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