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Creation of Special Tribunal over Russia’s aggression against Ukraine leaves Putin frustratingly out of reach

While fixation with Vladimir Putin’s role cannot diminish the guilt of others implicated in Russia’s aggression, how can justice be served by not holding him and Sergei Lavrov accountable?

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Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant guard savagely tortured to blame Ukraine for Russia’s war crimes

Having committed international crimes through its war of aggression and atrocities against Ukraine, Russia is using abductions and torture to try to blame Ukraine for its crimes

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Russia intensifies ‘filtration’ terror to keep Ukrainians from occupied Ukraine and steal their homes

Russia is making it harder and harder for Ukrainians to reach their homes on occupied territory, while also threatening Ukrainians who remained under Russian occupation with deportation if they do not accept Russian citizenship.

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

19-year sentence for Crimean Solidarity journalism not enough – Russia steps up persecution of Remzi Bekirov

Russia used religious faith as pretext for massive sentences against Remzi Bekirov and 24 other Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists and is now weaponizing it again to make his life even more difficult in Russian prison

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Russians gun down three unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war as proof mounts of high-level orders to kill

This latest execution of unarmed men comes amid mounting evidence that such executions are state policy and that Russian commanders have issued orders not to take prisoners

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Mariupol ex-policewoman sentenced to 18 years for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

In Russia's cynical 'Newspeak', its savage destruction of Mariupol was 'liberation' and those, like Aliona Holtvenko and Oleksandr Saakian, who refused to collaborate and helped the defenders of Ukraine are 'terrorists'

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Russian invaders fill occupied Donbas with ‘monuments’ rewriting history and inciting hatred to Ukraine

Russia began pushing lies about its military aggression back in 2014. Having brought in torture chambers and draconian laws against those who question the lies, it is erecting cynical monuments

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Three years of Russian captivity and torture in reprisal for affirming that Crimea is Ukraine

Russia’s treatment of all Ukrainian prisoners of war is brutal, and those like Crimean civic activist, Crimean Realities journalist and Mariupol defender Denys Matsola are at particular risk for their support of Ukraine and demolition of Russia's lies

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Russia sentences Ukrainian from Melitopol to 27 years for a cake for fighter pilots

The speed with which Yehor Semionov was seized makes it possible that his place of birth was the determining factor and not hard evidence

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Russian torturers can get a ‘confession’ to JFK’s assassination and the court will swallow it

Five Ukrainians from occupied Melitopol, who were abducted back in April 2022, have received huge sentences despite surreal charges backed only by ‘confessions’ extracted through torture

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Certain death warrant as six Crimean Tatar activists sentenced to 14 years ‘for refusing to be silent’ about Russian repression

14 years for discussing daily prayers and other aspects of the men’s faith – and for refusing to remain silent about Russia’s lawless repression in occupied Crimea

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Russian court upholds abduction, savage torture and insane sentence against Melitopol volunteer Yaroslav Zhuk

Russia claimed that an alleged attack on a collaborator helping the invaders constituted ‘international terrorism’ and subjected Yaroslav Zhuk to horrific torture in order to extract a ‘confession’