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Russia’s FSB to receive unlimited power to block access to Internet and mobile phones in occupied Ukraine

The FSB will be able to block whoever they like, with no pretence that this is for security reasons

• Civic society

Statement on the Designation of the International Memorial Association as an ‘Undesirable Organization’

Yesterday, 17 February 2026, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, designated the International Memorial Association as an “undesirable organization.”

Russia uses illegal ruling outlawing a different ‘Crimean Tatar Battalion’ for huge sentences against Ukrainian POWs

Bohdan Musikhin is one of 14 Ukrainian prisoners of war declaring political prisoners after Russian passed monstrous sentences against them for having served their country

Russia readmitted to Paralympics after Heraskevych banned for remembering the Ukrainian athletes it killed

The decision to readmit Russia to any Olympic event is an outrage and profound affront to all victims of Russia’s aggression, including the slain athletes whom Vladyslav Heraskevych was punished for honouring

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

‘Witness’ changes story to fit prosecution in Russia’s ‘trial’ of 75-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Ananiev

This is not the first time that huge discrepancies in 'testimony' have pointed to fabricated charges and duress, with 'judges' at the Southern District Military Court turning a blind eye

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean seized at Moscow airport, faces up to 20-year sentence for donations to Ukraine

Kyrylo Kostyhov was detained, subjected to fake administrative prosecutions until the FSB came up with 'treason' charges over donations totalling 22 euros

Detained Russian archaeologist wanted in Ukraine for crimes in occupied Crimea could be tried in Poland

Russian academics are being advised not to visit ‘unfriendly’ countries – like Poland which has heeded Ukraine’s request and detained Alexander Butyagin for his involvement in Russia’s illegal excavations and looting in occupied Crimea

Russia sentences 70-year-old pensioner from occupied Tokmak to 15 years for supporting Ukraine

All of Russia’s sentences against Ukrainian patriots are shocking, but here the aggressor state first forced Svitlana Loi to take its citizenship and is now almost certainly putting her life in danger

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Armed terror and planted ‘prohibited literature’ in new attack on Crimean Tatar family

Russia's FSB came for two Crimean Tatars on 12 February, leaving children deeply traumatized. Nariman Seitaliev is in custody, while Yunus Suleimanov has disappeared

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean women face prison sentences on ‘extremism’ charges for studying the Bible

The armed 'searches' and interrogations of Halyna Pryvalova and Anna Moroz were aimed solely at 'proving' that the women were practising Jehovah's Witnesses, something that neither woman would ever deny

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

When Russia first turned its terror against children

“The real terrorists are those who burst into the homes of people peacefully sleeping, who intimidate people who tell the truth; those who have turned Crimea into a military base" - Vadym Siruk. We could add also those who so brutally end childhood

Abducted, likely tortured and sentenced to 10 years for opposing Russian occupation of Kakhovka

Iryna Hedzyk had been held incommunicado for almost 18 months when Russia announced 'spying charges' and then, two weeks later, a 10-year sentence

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