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Ukrainian tortured, starved and sentenced to 11 years for trying to rescue his mother from Kharkiv oblast war zone

Update 29-year-old Ivan Zabavsky has managed to pass on a note in which he spoke of the torture he has endured during the ten months that he was illegally held in Russian captivity without any charge, before mystery 'spying' charges were laid

Russia sentences second Ukrainian abducted from Melitopol to 20 years on same fake ‘terrorism’ charges

The aggressor state illegally occupying Melitopol, in Zaporizhzhia oblast, has yet again claimed that alleged acts of resistance were ‘terrorism’

“People first!”campaign calls to free the captives of Russia’s invasion

With President Donald Trump set to initiate some form of peace negotiations on Ukraine this year, the coalition of human rights organisations, led by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Centre For Civil Liberties (Ukraine) and Memorial (Russia) are launching the PEOPLE FIRST! campaign.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Unending brutality against Crimean Tatar civic journalist sentenced to 15 years for reporting Russian repression

Eighty years after the Soviet regime executed Seiran Saliyev’s great grandfather for refusing to be cowered, Russia came up with chillingly similar claims against Saliev and other Crimean Solidarity journalists and activists

After fake ‘release’, Russia’s FSB re-abduct Donbas hostages first seized and tortured in 2017

At least fifty hostages seized long before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine remain imprisoned in occupied Donbas, with the fate of many others unknown

Russia’s ‘strategy on fighting extremism’ is a threat to all Ukrainians on occupied territory

The updated strategy not only treats any opposition to Russian occupation as ‘extremist’, but also makes it clear that Russia is waging its war against Ukrainian history, culture and identity

Russia passes 14-year death sentence against abducted 61-year-old Ukrainian with cancer

In dismissing the prosecutor’s claims, Mykola Oliynyk spoke of his abhorrence of war, of his not wanting his children and grandchildren to mourn him, or of having to mourn them

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

Over 1200 religious organizations closed or driven out of Russian-occupied Crimea

While Russia began its systematic attack on independent religious communities in Crimea in 2014, all of the same methods of repression and terror have now been extended to all parts of Ukraine under occupation

Ukrainian POW tortured and ‘sentenced’ to 24 years for Russia’s rewrite of the facts about its bombing of Mariupol

We know from released POWs what kind of horrific torture Ruslan Minahurov endured to extract his supposed ‘confession’ to precisely those war crimes which Russia committed against the civilian population in Mariupol

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

Russia imprisons at least 50 Crimean Tatars, other Ukrainians in revenge for Crimean civic blockade

Neither support for the legal blockade of illegally occupied Crimea, nor the Noman Çelebicihan Battalion’s ultimate objective, namely the end to Russian occupation, made its activities illegal, unlike those of the aggressor state in staging such ‘trials’

• War crimes • Events

Russia charges Memorial head with ‘justifying terrorism’ for calling persecuted Ukrainian POWs political prisoners

Russia first claimed that Ukrainians defending their country were ‘terrorists’ trying to ‘violently seize power’, and is now bringing ‘terrorism’ charges against Sergei Davidis for rightly calling the POWs political prisoners

DNA used to identify Ukrainian civilians abducted and murdered by the Russian invaders

The three civilians abducted in 2022 were killed in Russian captivity, as were Yevhen Matvieiev, Mayor of Dniprorudne, 27-year-old journalist Victoria Roshchyna, and, almost certainly, others

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