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Melitopol businesswoman dead after being abducted by the Russian invaders

51-year-old Tetiana Plachkova had, at very least, been denied proper medical care, and now Russia is claiming it does not know the whereabouts of Oleh Platchkov, a year after it abducted him from his Melitopol home

• Events

Renowned Russian civic activist Ildar Dadin killed defending Ukraine

Ildar had seen no choice but to take up arms in order to counter the mass killings and other crimes that his country was committing against Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian ‘justice’ in occupied Crimea - 17-year sentence and shattered childhoods for discussing a book in 2015

If Russia has its way, Raif Fevziev's children will be young adults when their father is released from a sentence based solely on a conversation in his own home, and on his civic activism

• Events

Schoolkids in Russia and occupied Ukraine forced to ‘celebrate’ Russian annexation as ‘reunification’

Russian indoctrination claiming ‘reinstatement of historical truth’ and of its ‘historical borders’ is especially chilling given that the claims include Ukrainian territory not under its occupation

• War crimes

Probe launched into mass execution of Ukrainian POWs as UN documents Russia’s systematic torture and other war crimes

Russian invaders have probably killed sixteen unarmed Ukrainian defenders, with this only one of a huge number of documented crimes that call for accountability, not just reports

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Dmytro Vovk: What awaits Ukraine after the law banning the Ukranian Orthodox Church?

The law banning religious organizations that have the center of influence in the Russian Federation has already entered into force recently. What will be the consequences of increased state intervention in religious affairs? How will the European Court of Human Rights react to the ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church? We spoke to an expert.

• War crimes

Protecting the Rights of Prisoners Deported from the Occupied Territories of Ukraine: Challenges and Solutions

The NGO Prisoners' Protection of Ukraine managed to return at least 260 prisoners who were victims of forced displacement.

• Events

Ukrainian sentenced to life for attempt to kill notorious Russian pro-war propagandist Zakhar Prilepin

Whether or not Oleksandr Permyakov was involved, Zakhar Prilepin was no innocent victim, but an active participant in Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia uses surreal charges and crippling fines to silence veteran Crimean Tatar newspaper

Not only is the occupying state prosecuting journalists for citing a UN report on rights violations in occupied Crimea, but it has claimed that this constituted 'abuse of freedom of mass information'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Relentless torment and 14-year sentences because Russia needed another 'Crimean saboteur' show trial

Volodymyr Dudka and Oleksiy Bessarabov got horrific sentences, despite obviously fabricated ‘evidence’, for being Ukrainian and because they had refused to admit to the preposterous charges

• War crimes

Gruesome murders as ‘collateral damage’ in Russia’s use of criminals for war against Ukraine

Putin’s ‘new Russian elite’ know that they can commit new crimes and escape prosecution by signing another (lucrative) contract to kill Ukrainians

• War crimes

16-year ‘sentence’ in occupied Luhansk oblast for opposing Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russia has been staging such judicial farces since 2014, and It is likely that both Oleksandr Sokolov and Viktor Soldatko were tortured to obtain their 'confessions' to actions that were in no way illegal,