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Putin calls murderous attack on Sumy ‘revenge’ amid massive increase in Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians

While Putin focuses on the bloody attack on Palm Sunday, UN human rights monitors have recorded a terrifying escalation in such atrocities against civilians with 151 people at least killed just since the beginning of April

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

Even Russian prison service asks to release blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov

Russia’s FSB, prosecutors and ‘judges’ were willing to sentence Sizikov to 17 years and send him to Siberia for speaking out about repression in occupied Crimea

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Meeting with Representatives of Ukrainian Roma in Brussels

Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” continues to highlight the challenges faced by Roma communities in Ukraine. This year, with the support of IPHR is organized a meeting with Roma veterans who voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Donbas hostages savagely tortured for ‘confessions’ in 2019 sentenced in Russia to 24 years

Russia’s ‘trial’’ of Andriy Harrius, Yuriy Ivanov and Stanislav Surovtsev, who were seized and tortured by an illegal armed formation which Russia had not recognized could not be more incriminating

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Russia returns body of abducted Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna with scars from torture

Russia took six months to return Victoria’s body in a state making it difficult to determine the cause of death. They could not, however, conceal the evidence of torture

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Huge sentences and videoed ‘repentance’ in Russia’s mounting terror in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

A Russian occupation ‘court’ has sentenced a Ukrainian woman in her fifties to 14 years’ imprisonment for supporting the military unit that her Ukrainian defender son is serving in

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A reliable tool in the hands of human rights defenders: how the KHPG database works

Convenient systematization, reliable archiving, and high speed of processing a large amount of information — all these make the database that KHPG fills during the search for missing and captured Ukrainians unique.

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

Russia’s selective ‘terrorism’ in war against Ukraine and in fraternizing with the Taliban

Moscow’s rapprochement with the Taliban coincides with its sharp escalation in fabricated ‘terrorism’ charges against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs

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Horrific sentences demanded against five Ukrainians abducted from Russian-occupied Melitopol

Russia began openly abducting and torturing civilians with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and has used tortured-out ‘confessions’ to concoct extraordinarily cynical charges of ‘international terrorism’

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Darya Kozyreva gets real prison term for Taras Shevchenko poem and opposition to Russia’s war against Ukraine

While Putin pardons and 'honours' convicted killers and other mercenaries, the regime imprisons young people like Darya Kozyreva who refuse to remain silence about Russia's monstrous war against Ukraine and its war crimes

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Russia intensifies plunder in policy to bring in Russians and eliminate Ukrainian identity in occupied Ukraine

While ‘deporting’ Ukrainians and appropriating their property, Russia is planning to settle at least five million Russians in occupied Ukraine by 2030

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chilling silence 13 months after enforced disappearance of Crimean Anatoliy Kobzar

It is likely that 45-year-old Anatoliy Kobzar was targeted because of his pro-Ukrainian views, with the FSB holding him incommunicado and probably tortured while they fabricate charges