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• 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.

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

Tortured to death by Russian invaders, sentenced to 10 years or abducted, whereabouts unknown

The Russian invaders have brought abductions to any territory they seize, with five very young men from occupied Chornobaiivka alone having either been tortured to death or been imprisoned for years

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

From savage Russian repression to Crimean Solidarity

The gratuitously violent armed raids on 11 February 2016 prompted the emergence of the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement whose members Russia has been savagely persecuting ever since

• War crimes

Russian accused by Ukraine of torture and killings in Bucha given high-ranking post in Russia

Nursultan Mussagaleyev is believed to have taken part in Russia’s ‘purges’ in Bucha and to have ordered the torture and killing of 29-year-old Ivan Fishner, who was trying to rescue friends

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian seized in Crimea and sentenced to 12 years for donations to Ukraine's defenders

Roman Hryhorian is one of a mounting number of Ukrainians seized on occupied territory and charged with ‘treason’ for seeking to help Ukraine’s Armed Forces defend their country

• Penal institutions

Prison medicine: ways to humanize it

In the Kherson region, a prisoner falls under occupation and is taken to Russia, where he becomes seriously ill. The aggressor state releases him on health grounds, but at home, the native penitentiary system locks him up again, barely alive. Let’s find out what is wrong with the Ukrainian procedure for release from prison due to illness.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia uses medical torture to fabricate its 'trial' of disabled 74-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev

Volodymyr Ananiev, who spent years helping Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians in Crimea is now Russia’s oldest Ukrainian political prisoner and one of three victims of the latest FSB-fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur plot’

• War crimes

UN monitors report sharp increase in executions of Ukrainian POWs, and point to Russian officials’ effective incitement to kill

Not only is there evidence of Russian commanders ordering subordinates to not take prisoners, but there are constant calls to such war crimes from Russian public officials and propagandists

• The right to a fair trial   • Research

A janitor, a cook, an informer — who is being tried for collaborating with the enemy?

And also — priests, school and hospital directors, as well as ‘judges’, ‘prosecutors’, and fighters from illegal armed groups. We have analyzed the judicial practice for you.