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Tortured Ukrainian lawyer held incommunicado since July 2022 for writing the truth about Russian occupation of Melitopol

Yevhen Ilchenko was the first of at least nine journalists or Telegram administrators to be seized by the Russians, with his case and that of Anastasia Hlukhovska of particular concern as almost nothing is known

12-year sentence for Ukrainian patriotism against 63-year-old pensioner in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

The Russian invaders are continuing to pass effective death sentences against men and women in their sixties or seventies for donations to Ukraine’s defenders

Russian invaders sentence Ukrainians to 6 and 16 years for defending their own country many years ago

The sentence demonstrates the lawlessness and brazen methods which Russia is increasingly using to try to rewrite the facts about its invasion of Ukraine

Bedridden “Azov man” in Russia was convicted of “terrorism”

. . . For the fifth year in a row, Inna talks to her son every day, holding his photograph in front of her. She tells him about his younger brothers, asks him to hold on, and — most importantly! — survive. “Azovian” Bohdan is far away: in Russian captivity. Confined to bed after several shell shocks and severe beatings. Sentenced by a Russian court to 16 years in prison.

Ukrainian political prisoner tortured to fabricate new charges rather than free him after 8 years of Russian captivity

Serhiy Buhaichuk spent eight years of his life in Russian captivity on charges almost certainly fabricated because he was Ukrainian

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

55-year-old Ukrainian from occupied Crimea sentenced to 17 years on FSB-fabricated ‘attempted treason’ charges

Volodymyr Zosyk is the latest of a huge number of Ukrainians from occupied Crimea, forced to taken Russian citizenship and then accused of supposed 'treason' with respect to Russia

Russia ignores gangrenous wound to stage second ‘trial’ against Ukrainian POW for defending Mariupol

Russia first sentenced Denys Dorokhin to 28 years and is now placing his life in jeopardy in order to fabricate a second ‘trial’ and massive sentence

Russia passes revenge life sentences against a Hero of Ukraine and three other marine commanders for defending Mariupol

The charges against Volodymyr Baraniuk, Dmytro Karmiankov; Vitaliy Yaroshenko and Mykola Biriukov are of brazen cynicism with the men accused by the invading state of its war crimes

Russians sentence terrorized 20-year-old Mariupol woman to 13 years on ‘treason’ charges

Victoria Maksymenko had clearly been psychologically pressured, if not tortured, into giving the distressing 'confession' which the Russians then circulated

52-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner Ibragim Kudzhanov dies in Russian captivity

Ibragim Kudzhanov had gone through hell from October 2022 when the Russians first abducted his teenage son, and then they come for him, passing an effective death sentence for his defence of Ukraine in Donbas six years earlier

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimeans given long sentences for ‘calls to terrorism’ – comments on social media in support of Ukraine against Russian aggressor

The secrecy which Russia has imposed makes it impossible to check the actual comments, but they pertain to legitimate targets and have nothing to do with 'terrorism', even according to Russian norms

More than 100,000 documented incidents of international crimes: how civil society organisations are bringing justice closer

More than 100,000 documented incidents of war crimes, thousands of testimonies from victims, and years of systematic work by civil society—this is the contribution Ukrainian human rights organisations have made to the pursuit of justice and the accountability of those responsible for crimes committed during Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

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