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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

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

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

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

Russia sentences abducted and tortured Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant engineer to 18 years on grotesque charges

Ukrainian engineer Serhiy Potynh is the latest of many employees of the plant abducted, tortured and then ‘tried’ on preposterous charges aimed at accusing Ukrainians of Russia’s terrorism

Russia’s ‘Azov trial’ – one Ukrainian POW tortured to death, 23 given monstrous sentences

One of Russia’s most cynical ‘trials’ has ended with 23 men and women sentenced to huge terms of imprisonment on insane ‘terrorism’ charges for serving, some way back, in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Azov Regiment

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Halyna Dovhopola turns 70, imprisoned in Russia for remaining true to Ukraine in occupied Crimea

It is very likely that Russia’s FSB came for Halyna because she had never concealed her opposition to Russia’s invasion of Crimea

‘We dream of becoming unnecessary’: the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) initiative presents three-year report

On March 25, 2025, the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) initiative released the results of its three years of work — nearly 85,000 documented war crimes and nine submissions to the International Criminal Court.

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

Russia’s most savage sentence yet against 66-year-old Ukrainian woman from occupied Crimea

The indictment seems copied verbatim from other such fabricated ‘trials’ of Ukrainians, but this time Russia is planning to imprison Nina Tymoshenko until she is 82

Russia’s enforced disappearances of Ukrainian civilians are crimes against humanity – UN Commission

These must not simply be harrowing details of Russian crimes, with the UN Commission stressing that judicial and non-judicial accountability are vital for ensuring sustainable peace.

Putin gives Ukrainians on Ukrainian territory until 10 September to get Russian citizenship or face deportation

This is part of very aggressive measures by the invading power to either foist Russian citizenship on Ukrainians living in occupied Ukraine, or force them out, with Moscow clearly bringing Russians in as part of its attempts to destroy Ukrainian identity

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russians take away elderly Crimean Tatar veteran’s trailer where he lived after they demolished his home

Russia’s action in razing Rustem Useinov’s home to the ground was described in 2021 as a war crime. Now the same occupiers have taken away the 70-year-old’s trailer, his medicines and other items

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