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• Voices of war

“In the ‘DPR’ torture chambers, they used electric shocks and filed teeth”

Daniil Bulgakov is a programmer from Donetsk. After the city was occupied in 2014, he moved to Kharkiv to study. In 2020, Daniil returned home to care for his seriously ill grandmother. But soon, the 22-year-old student was detained by officers of the “DPR” MGB (Ministry of State Security) and accused of “spying for Ukraine.” Daniil spent three years and four months in Russian captivity, during which he was subjected to horrific torture.

• Implementation of European Law   • Monitoring

The Expert Opinion (Amicus Curiae) of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in Criminal Proceedings No. 42025000000001123

The Civil Organisation "Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group" (hereinafter – the KHPG) was approached by a Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Yuliia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (hereinafter – the Applicant), with a request to examine the materials of criminal proceedings

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia brings new ‘treason’ charges against young Crimean Tatar political prisoner after months of torture

The FSB have resorted to both physical torture and to terrorization of Mamut Belyalov's family

• War crimes

Russia sentences Ukrainian military pensioner to 18 years after itself admitting there were no grounds to imprison him

Victor Kuzmenko was seized for a second time when merely trying to rejoin his family after the Russians came for him in Mariupol and held him prisoner for 18 months

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Massive sentences against Yalta couple two years after Krystyna Markova was abducted by the FSB and vanished

Any 'trial' would be illegal, but in this case, it is also likely that the two were held incommunicado, without access to a lawyer and without charges being laid, for eight months

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Death sentence without witnesses in Russia’s latest conveyor-belt trial of Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Not only were the sentences particularly brutal, but they were handed down without warning, thus making it impossible for family and human rights activists to attend or, at least, stand outside in solidarity

• War crimes

Russia stages third ‘trial’ of Ukrainian POW, adds 2 years to illegal 18-year sentence for comments about Russian war crimes

Anton Saikhiev has been imprisoned since May 2022, with Russia meting out particularly savage reprisals against defenders of Mariupol

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian sentenced to five years for writing that Russian-occupied territory is part of Ukraine

Volodymyr Dobriyan is one of an ever-increasing number of Ukrainians sentenced to real terms of imprisonment for expressing opposition to Russia's aggression against Ukraine

• War crimes

Russia passes life sentence on ‘treason’ charges against Ukrainian accused of acts of resistance

Even if Oleksandr Skrabunov did have anything to do with the killing of a representative of the occupying power, the latter was a legitimate target and this had nothing to do with 'terrorism' or 'treason'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

71-year-old Ukrainian patriot Halyna Dovhopola unbroken after 7 years in Russian captivity, but “won’t survive another such winter”

With Russia merciless in its treatment of even the oldest Ukrainian political prisoners, publicity is urgently needed for Halyna Dovhopola's situation

• War crimes

55-year-old Crimean seized at Russian airport and tortured to fabricate treason charges over donations to Ukraine

Victoria Serhieieva is the latest of a number of Ukrainian citizens effectively abducted and held on fabricated pretexts while the FSB concocted surreal ‘treason’ charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s fake ‘secret witness’ exposes fabricated charges against five Crimean Tatar political prisoners

While tragically unlikely to change the course of a predetermined ‘trial’, it is telling that the key ‘prosecution witness’ demonstrated that he did not know the defendants

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