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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean sentenced to 5 years for critical comments about Russia’s army on YouTube

While Russia claims that Crimeans are united behind its full-scale invasion, Valeriy Shevchuk is only the latest of very many Crimeans to face imprisonment or fines for supporting Ukraine

• War crimes

Tortured Ukrainian doctors save victims of Russia’s medical torture in occupied Donbas

Surgeon Ihor Nazurenko and neuropathologist Yury Shapovalov have paid a huge price for their open opposition to Russia’s proxy ‘Donetsk republic’

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

A forced ‘peace’ without Crimea means a carte blanche for Russia to continue its crimes against Ukraine

Crimean Tatars prevented Moscow from staging a coup without open invasion 11 years ago and have faced savage repression ever since. Acceptance of Russia’s occupation of any part of Ukraine would be a betrayal and dangerous

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

Crimean Tatar sentenced to 18 years in Russian secret ‘trial’ where only torture is near certain

The only likely reason for holding Ruslan Mambetov incommunicado for over a month is that the FSB wanted to extract 'confessions' through torture in order to concoct yet another such 'treason' trial

• War crimes

Putin declares commander accused of torturing and killing civilians in Ukraine a ‘hero of Russia’

Putin has ‘honoured’ both Anton Struyev, and his 15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, other members of which are accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old child and gangraping her mother in occupied Kyiv oblast

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Press Release: International campaign for the release of captives held as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Online press conference: On the tragic anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine the UN Special Rapporteur, Nobel Peace Prize laureates and human rights groups demand to free all captives of war.

• War crimes

Three Years of Full-scale Russia-Ukraine war: the Kharkiv Region

To date, personal data of 7,225 witnesses and victims of international crimes allegedly committed by the Russian occupiers, as well as 117 probable perpetrators of such crimes, have been recorded by our organization in the Kharkiv Region.

• War crimes

Europe Needs Peace, Not a New ‘Munich Agreement’

Three Years Since the Beginning of Russian Aggression Against Ukraine

• War crimes

Children in occupied Ukraine get brainwashing ‘lesson’ on 24 February about Russia ‘liberating’ them

Children in all occupied parts of Ukraine will be told that Russia’s full-scale invasion was not about military aggression, unprecedented since World War II, but about ‘reinstating historical justice’

• War crimes

73-year-old Melitopol pensioner sentenced to 14 years in Russia’s conveyor belt ‘treason’ trials for supporting Ukraine

Russia’s massive increase in so-called ‘treason’ cases is, in part, because Ukrainians on Ukrainian territory are being abducted, usually tortured and sentenced to 10 years or more for donations to Ukrainian defenders

• Politics

Statement of Ukrainian Non-Governmental Organizations on the Impossibility of Holding Democratic Elections without the Sustainable Peace

Democracy in war time must be protected even more than during peace time because the cost of a mistake or loss of trust is extremely high.

• War crimes

Seventh year of life-threatening torture in Russian-occupied Donbas for supporting Ukraine

Russia can no longer deny its responsibility for civilian hostages first seized and savagely tortured in occupied Donetsk oblast in 2017-18, including Ihor Kirianenko whose life it is directly endangering