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Abducted Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska went on hunger strike in notorious Russian prison

Anastasia Hlukhovska is held incommunicado in the same Siberian remand prison where fellow journalist Victoria Roshchyna and Dniprorudne Mayor Yevhen Matvieiev died after being subjected to torture

Russians cause abducted Melitopol woman’s death, hold her husband incommunicado for 3 years

Russia has not admitted to holding Oleh Plachkov, although he was seized by the Russians together with his wife, Tetiana Plachkova in September 2023 and was not released after her death in captivity

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Three children orphaned for Russia’s new Crimean ‘treason trial’ and huge sentence

In its persecution of Svitlana Kolomiyets, Russia is again shattering children’s lives for lawless 'trials' of Ukrainian citizens from occupied territory on supposed ‘spying’ or ‘treason’ charges.

Russia uses Gestapo-like torture for ‘international terrorism’ trial and massive sentences over death of a Ukrainian traitor

Volodymyr Teteriev's torturers boasted that the only difference between them and the Gestapo was in the name. The savage torture they applied was used to sentence Teteriev to life and four other Ukrainians to 17 and 18 years

Ukrainian sentenced to 16 years for resisting Russian occupation gets new sentence for ‘extremist’ tattoo

Maksym Vorobiov and Maksym Timofieiev received monstrously long sentences over rail partisan acts (which they may or may not have taken part in )

Tortured but unbroken: Four Ukrainians expose Russian fabrication of trial over death of a traitor

As well as a prosecutor and 'judge' implicated in multiple sentences against political prisoners, Russia has used 'lawyers' willing to collaborate with the 'investigators' and ignore evident use of torture

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Abducted IT specialist found alive in occupation ‘court’ after 13 months of enforced disappearance and Russian lies

Serhiy Hrishchenkov was probably targeted for his pro-Ukrainian position and held in isolation for 13 months while the Russian FSB used torture, threats against his family or similar to extract ‘a confession’

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

KHPG, Memorial & OVD.info added to ‘List of terrorists & extremists’ for reporting on repression in Russia and occupied Ukraine

The move is clearly aimed at silencing voices in defence of Russia’s ever-mounting number of political prisoners, including those from occupied parts of Ukraine.

• The right to life • Human Rights Violations associated with EuroMaidan

12-year sentence over abduction and savage torture of slain Euromaidan activist Yury Verbytsky

Yury Verbytsky was abducted, tortured for nine hours and left to die in a forest outside Kyiv when the temperature was around minus 10 °C

Five Ukrainians tortured for ‘confessions’ because the FSB couldn’t catch the partisans who killed a Russian-installed traitor

It is very likely that Oleh Andrushak, Pavlo Borodin, Viacheslav Voronko, Mykhailo Shpakovsky, Mykola Kolomiyets were abducted and are facing up to life imprisonment because the FSB had to arrest somebody

Violations of Ukrainian Children’s Rights in the Context of War: A Publication by ADC Memorial Brussels and KHPG Marking dated to the June’s Child Protection Days

To mark International Children’s Day on June 1 and International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression on June 4, ADC Memorial Brussels and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group have prepared a publication on violations of the rights of Ukrainian children—victims of the aggressive war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia imprisons Crimean political prisoner 2,200 kilometres from her infant daughters

Russia’s brutality is directed not just against Crimean political prisoners, but against their small children, with 26-year-old Oleksandra Strilets one of at least four mothers abducted and facing political charges in the last year

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