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Ukrainian Women in Captivity: Thoughts about Their Families Help Them to Survive

Hundreds of Ukrainian women are in Russian captivity. We spoke with the head of the Kharkiv office of the KHPG, Tamila Bespala, about the conditions in which the Russians are holding female prisoners and what help they need after returning home.

• War crimes

Brutal Russian reprisals against young student sentenced to 9 years for her pro-Ukrainian position

Yulia Sokolova was just 17 when the Russian invaders first seized her and then subjected her to daily 'interrogations', before the staged 'trial' with possibly no hearings, and conviction guaranteed

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Russian invaders sentence Tetiana Deviatkina to 6 years for criticizing them on social media

Tetiana Deviatkina, who has a young daughter,, and Victor Voloshchuk are facing long sentences for expressing opposition to Russian occupation on social media

• Civic society

On the designation of “Memorial” as an extremist organisation. Statement by the Council of the Memorial HRDC

It cannot be ruled out that Putin's repressive regime may now target supporters and participants of various Memorial organisations.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB report the ‘arrest’ of a young mother 18 months after they abducted her in occupied Crimea

The videoed 'confession' was doubtless extracted, almost certainly through torture or threats, during the 15 months when Sakha Manhubi was held incommunicado in an FSB-controlled prison

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Russia’s supreme court finds Ukrainian guilty of ‘international terrorism’ for opposing invaders

An invading army abducted Vitaliy Rastorhuev and Volodymyr Kryvtsun in July 2022, holding them incommunicado and likely torturing them until the end of December that year

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Maryna Ryff disappears in Russian-occupied Crimea after refusing to hide her pro-Ukrainian position

Russia increasingly resorts to abductions with Maryna Ryff’s disappearance reported as two other Ukrainian women, imprisoned for 18 months, were finally ‘found’ in Russian captivity

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Young Mariupol woman sentenced to 13 years for donating to Ukraine’s Army after her POW husband died in Russian captivity

Russia's huge sentences against Ukrainians for donations to Ukraine's defenders are always monstrous, but that against 25-year-old Angelina Skyba defies belief

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Russia sentences Crimean Tatar prisoner of war to 20 years for serving in Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Seiran Asanov was accused of ‘involvement in a terrorist organization’ and of ‘treason’ for defending his own country against the Russian invaders

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian medical torture and effective death sentences for civic activism in occupied Crimea

Russia falsifies medical records and openly flout its own legislation in order to carry out reprisals to the end against Crimean Tatar and other Crimean political prisoners savagely persecuted for their refusal to remain silent

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Ukrainian sentenced to 20 years for “wanting to blow up railway’ used for Russia’s war against Ukraine

Andriy Diachenko may or may not have been a ‘railway partisan’, but he is undoubtedly a victim of Russia’s brazen persecution of Ukrainians on illegally occupied territory

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

Crimean gets long sentence for opposing invasion while Russian politicians freely incite to genocide against Ukraine

Serhiy Tubolets is the latest victim of Russia's use of flawed 'terrorism' legislation in its arsenal against Ukrainians