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

Russian FSB carry out new terror raids and arrests by quota in occupied Crimea

The FSB prefer to get their ‘statistics’ by fighting whole families. First they came for Emir Kurtnezirov’s severely ill father, then for him, less than two months after he married the daughter and niece of four other Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Viktor Dzytsiuk was almost tortured to death in occupied Donbas. Now Russia is continuing his torment

Viktor Dzytsiuk ‘turned grey’ in a week from the torture he faced in the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk people’s republic’s Izolyatsia secret prison. Over seven years later, Russia is not letting go.

Ukrainian Holocaust survivor: Hitler wanted to kill me as a Jew. Putin is trying to kill me because I’m Ukrainian

Roman Schwarzman’s stark warning about Russia’s war of extermination against Ukraine came as Putin’s adviser presented a new school textbook claiming that Russia had been ‘forced’ to invade Ukraine

Russian FSB uses shoddily faked video to charge 63-year-old woman abducted from occupied Ukraine with ‘terrorism’

Larysa Havrylenko is one of a huge number of civilians abducted and tortured or otherwise forced into providing insanely implausible 'confessions' or video stunts

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

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