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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Solidarity needed with Ukrainian artist sentenced to 15 years for protesting Russia’s war against Ukraine

“Any person who fails to speak out against this war, who does nothing to stop it, is a passive accomplice to this terrible crime committed by the Russian regime”   Bohdan Ziza in a letter from a Russian prison

• War crimes

19-year-old from Russian-occupied Luhansk faces 15-year sentence for donation to Ukraine’s Azov Regiment

The ‘terrorism’ charges against Ivan Semykoz for supporting Ukrainian defenders were under an occupation department “on investigating particularly important cases”,

• War crimes

Russia forcibly conscripts Mariupol lads into its invading army

Young Ukrainians have been forced to ‘swear allegiance’ to the country that has invaded their homeland, causing carnage, destruction and immense suffering

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

One-year prison sentence in Russian-occupied Crimea for the words ‘Glory to Ukraine’

The 'trial' and sentence against Dmytro Yezhov is one of a huge number where Ukrainians have been ‘convicted of discrediting’ Russia’s armed forces merely by expressing pro-Ukrainian views

• War crimes

Russian invaders destroy ‘anti-Russian’ memorials to victims of Holodomor in occupied Kherson oblast

Denial of Holodomor has long been a part of Russia’s war against historical memory. In areas under Russian occupation it has become an aspect of Russia’s aggression against all that is Ukrainian

• War crimes

Mariupol woman sentenced to 11 years in Russia’s mass copy-paste ‘spying trials’ against Ukrainians

Olha Pichurina and Dmytro Shainoha were abducted and held for very long periods before Russia admitted to their ‘detention’ and staged sentences on ‘spying’ charges repeated verbatim from case to case

• War crimes

Russa sentences Ukrainian mother of four to 14 years on ‘treason’ charges for supporting Ukraine

Oksana Hladkykh was doubtless targeted for her open opposition to Russia’s occupation of her home in Zaporizhzhia oblast

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar Mejlis: No ‘peace deals’ with Russia without Crimea as part of Ukraine

Crimea is Ukraine, the Mejlis stresses, and any territorial concessions to Russia will only whet Moscow’s appetite for more

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia cancels sentence against Crimean Tatar political prisoner after torturing him to death

60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov should never have been imprisoned, yet even the military court of appeal had earlier been too craven to revoke a politically motivated sentence that could no longer be served

• Events

Ukrainian-born paediatrician jailed in chilling show trial over alleged criticism of Russia’s war against Ukraine

The charges and torment of 68-year-old Nadezhda Buyanova provide a terrifying indictment of Russia's methods of persecution, especially against those with Ukrainian roots

• War crimes

Russia kills more children, while passing mass sentences against Ukrainian POWs for its crimes in Mariupol

The accusations against Ukrainian defenders are especially cynical when Russia is, on a daily basis, bombing and murdering Ukrainian civilians, including Olena Kulyk and her three small children, the youngest of whom was just two months old

• The right to life   • War crimes

Russia is hiding the body of Ukrainian journalist who died after months in notorious Russian prison

Whether or not Russia deliberately murdered Victoria Roshchyna, its imprisonment of the young journalist was illegal, and the fact that she was held at a prison notorious for torture of immense concern