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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

58-year-old Luhansk school head abducted in Crimea and charged with ‘treason’ for donations to Ukraine’s Army

On the cynical charges and likely sentence against Maryna Kovalenko, 17-year-sentence against Liudmyla Kolesnikova, who returned to her dying mother, as well as Russia's 'reward' - a 20-year sentence - for a Ukrainian traitor

• War crimes

Ukrainian POW sentenced to 18 years for defending Mariupol prosecuted again for saying that Russia invaded Ukraine

While Russia’s war of aggression undoubtedly discredits both the Russian regime and its military, Anton Saikhiev, whom Russia has imprisoned for defending his country, was prosecuted for telling the truth

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chilling denial, despite videoed evidence, of Russia’s abduction of Sevastopol IT analyst Serhiy Hrishchenkov

It will soon be ten months since 58-year-old Serhiy Hryshchenkov was abducted, with it frightening unclear why the FSB are denying their evident involvement in this

• War crimes

Ukrainian volunteer abducted in 2022 ‘found’ in Russian FSB-controlled Crimean prison

Russia is continuing to conceal the whereabouts of Hola Prystan Mayor Oleksandr Babych, volunteer Oleksandr Kostiuk and very many others with details emerging only thanks to freed prisoners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Brutal Russian roulette with the life of gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner

Results of a recent echocardiogram are alarming, yet the Russian prison authorities are doing nothing to minimise the direct danger to Amet Suleimanov’s life

• War crimes

Russia brings long sentences for pro-Ukrainian social media posts to occupied Ukraine

In 2014, a person protesting against Russia’s invasion of Crimea, warned that Russian occupation meant been forced into silence. That is now tragically clear in other parts of occupied Ukraine

• War crimes

Help force Russia to free abducted and tortured Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employees!

Russia’s armed occupation of the largest nuclear power station in Europe is not only a question of nuclear safety. Voices are needed to ensure that Russia ends its terror and releases Ukrainian employees held prisoner

• War crimes

USA refuses to support Ukraine’s territorial integrity and a lasting peace on anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion

The UN resolution was hardly controversial. It called for the return of all civilian hostages, including children, a just and lasting peace and respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to six years for refusing to renounce his faith

Russia has, once again, brought repression against an entire family, with Vitaliy Buryk not persecuted because of 'extremist activities', but because he continued to practise his faith

• War crimes

Brutal FSB set-up to sentence 21-year-old Donetsk woman to 20 years for patriotism

Maria Hryn was just 20 when she was very likely tricked into making a patriotic video and (possibly) planning a petrol bomb attack in occupied Donetsk

• War crimes

Russian soldier sentenced to life for killing two Ukrainian POWs in cold blood

Vladimir Ivanov is the third Russian to have been convicted of killing Ukrainian prisoners of war, with all three saying that the order to kill had come from their commander

• War crimes

Kherson father and daughter abducted, tortured and given huge sentences for trying to escape Russian occupation

The Russian invaders have yet again opted for easy victims - Oleksiy Demianenko and his very young daughter, Anzhelika, who only tried to leave occupied Kherson oblast