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73-year-old Melitopol pensioner sentenced to 14 years in Russia’s conveyor belt ‘treason’ trials for supporting Ukraine

Russia’s massive increase in so-called ‘treason’ cases is, in part, because Ukrainians on Ukrainian territory are being abducted, usually tortured and sentenced to 10 years or more for donations to Ukrainian defenders

Statement of Ukrainian Non-Governmental Organizations on the Impossibility of Holding Democratic Elections without the Sustainable Peace

Democracy in war time must be protected even more than during peace time because the cost of a mistake or loss of trust is extremely high.

Seventh year of life-threatening torture in Russian-occupied Donbas for supporting Ukraine

Russia can no longer deny its responsibility for civilian hostages first seized and savagely tortured in occupied Donetsk oblast in 2017-18, including Ihor Kirianenko whose life it is directly endangering

Russia’s weaponization of elections in Ukraine given unexpected boost by President Trump

Putin has long sought to control Ukraine through elections, but this time the dictator's lies have been taken up by the new US President who not only called Ukraine's President a 'dictator' but also accused him of causing Russia's full-scale invasion

Russian on trial for killing Ukrainian POW with his commander confirming ‘order to not take prisoners’

This is the first trial where the defendant is present, but is by no means the first evidence of orders issued by Russian commanders to kill captured soldiers

Russia sentences Mariupol mother of four to 14 years on 'terrorism' and ‘treason’ charges

It is unclear where Anastasia Todurova, a mother with small children, was supposed to have hidden explosives, nor what kind of ‘terrorist act’ the FSB claim to have thwarted

Ukraine removed from rewritten history of WWII as Russia tries to justify its full-scale invasion

Any world leaders who stand with Putin on Red Square on 9 May will be complicit in Russia’s rewriting of history and attempts to compare Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine with victory over Nazi Germany

Russia passes 10-year sentence over two years after abducting and torturing 20-year-old Kherson student

Hanna Yeltsova had been held incommunicado for almost two years, and almost certainly tortured, when the Crimean FSB suddenly claimed to have 'arrested' her and brought spying charges

• Civic society

Statement by human rights organizations on the application of personal sanctions against Poroshenko, Zhevago, Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov

The application of sanctions to opposition politicians and businessmen is an extrajudicial political reprisal that undermines the fundamental principles of law, grossly violates the Constitution and international agreements ratified by Ukraine, poses serious threats to human rights and fundamental freedoms, and is also a usurpation of power in the state.

Toddlers in occupied Ukraine forced to draw ‘thank you’ cards to Russian invaders

If 3-year-olds in Kherson oblast would have been simply drawing pictures, some of the school children in Mariupol will have been 'thanking' fighters of an aggressor state that killed their relatives, destroyed their home and shattered their childhood

Russia sentences Ukrainian to 8.5 years for donation as a teenager to Ukraine’s Azov Regiment

Russia’s ‘trials’ of Ukrainians like 20-year-old Ivan Semykoz are doubtless partly aimed at instilling terror and showing that any support for Ukraine will be uncovered and punished

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Ukraine’s Constitution in question as believers sentenced to three years for refusing to fight

Religious believers like Jehovah’s Witness Vitalii Kryushenko and Seventh Day Adventist Dmytro Zelinsky did not refuse to serve their country. They were denied their right to do so through alternative, non-combat, service

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