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Russia sentences Melitopol man to 14 years for 2017 demonstrations and a social media comment

The charges against 24-year-old Denys Shepotko, under Russian legislation concerning events over which Russia had no jurisdiction, are a legal absurdity.

Russian FSB gets carte blanche to torture and fabricate sabotage charges against 14-year-olds

The reduction in age of criminal liability is chilling given the very suspicious circumstances around the killing by Russia of at four 16-year-old lads from occupied Berdiansk and Melitopol

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Dangerously ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner ‘not allowed’ life-saving medication

Fears that Russia’s withdrawal from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture would remove any last restraints were probably justified judging by its life-threatening medical torture of Amet Suleimanov

• Publicistics

Civic Responsibility as the Only Way to Overcome Total Unfreedom

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yuly Daniel, a distinguished translator, poet, prose writer, defendant in the most high-profile political trial of the 1960s, and political prisoner.

Russia stages new ‘trial’ of savagely tortured Ukrainian partisan already sentenced to 26 years

The charges against Hryhory Sinchenko, Volodymyr Makarenko and Dmytro Palenko are grotesque with Russia’s torture of Sinchenko dating back to long before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

First arrest under new Russian law over an Internet search for Ukraine’s Azov Regiment

The move is particularly chilling as the 20-year-old student was detained just hours after browsing the Internet

• Access to information • Analytics

The spectre of communism? No, now it’s the spectre of the Firewall

Over a quarter of a century, the Great Firewall (GFW) has evolved from a local gatekeeper into a global export: a Chinese firm has packaged it into modules, ready for deployment in a matter of weeks.

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

Crimean woman sentenced to 5.5 years for social media criticism of Russia's war against Ukraine

Although Kateryna Fomenko was charged with 'circulating military fakes', all of the comments first used for administrative prosecutions were critical of Russia's war of aggression, but in no way false

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Sentenced to die in immense pain for religious independence in Russian-occupied Crimea

Lenur Khalilov is gravely ill and Russia’s rearrest is both a death sentence in his case and a clear indication that even Russian legislation will not apply in the case of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB uses propaganda and hate speech to justify its terror against Crimean Tatar women

The FSB’s press service is complicit, as are other main players, in fabricating absurd charges carrying monstrous sentences

Sinister secrecy over Russia’s abduction, torture and imprisonment of Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska

Russia has held Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska incommunicado, without any charges being laid for well over two years. It is chillingly unclear why they appear to be hiding her

Russian solider sentenced to life for gunning down an unarmed Ukrainian POW

Despite the mounting number of Russian executions of Ukrainians surrendering, this was the first such trial, with the soldier’s commander having confirmed they were instructed not to take prisoners

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