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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar newspaper founder convicted of ‘infringing freedom of information’ for UN report on Russian violations

The fine imposed is cripplingly high, with this only one of several such prosecutions which appear aimed at crushing a valuable source of truthful information

• War crimes

Even Ukrainian-controlled territory claimed as ‘Russian’ by aggressor state’s school curriculum

Not only is Putin claiming more Ukrainian territory than Russia is occupying, but school students must repeat these lies or fail their school-leaving exam

• War crimes

Fake Russian ‘court’ imprisons abducted Ukrainian journalist for membership of non-existent organization

Stripped of the aggressor state’s fake coating, the charges brought against Hennadiy Osmak may well pertain solely to his truthful coverage of the legitimate blockade of Russian occupied Crimea

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My mother died, unable to bear that horror’

Serhii Parfuliuk is a resident of the village of Moshchun (Kyiv Region). His house was completely destroyed by shelling, and his mother died after being evacuated, unable to bear the horrors of war.

• War crimes

Russia imprisons Mariupol pensioner on ‘terrorism’ charges after someone's attempt on fake ‘mayor’

It is likely that both 57-year-old Mykola Zabirko from Mariupol and Iryna Kulish from Zaporizhzhia oblast were abducted and held incommunicado, with Russian methods of 'investigation' typically confined to torture

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Halyna Dovhopola is almost 70 and facing 7 more years of torment in Russian captivity for her love of Ukraine

Russia has blocked all information about the insane charges against the Ukrainian pensioner from occupied Crimea, but could not conceal the fact that she is a political prisoner

• Voices of war   • Interview

Between despair and hope: 89 families from the Kyiv Region are waiting for their nearest and dearest from captivity

Why international humanitarian law is powerless to free civilian hostages? Do state and international organizations help relatives of captives? How do we not lose hope? Here is a conversation with the Initiative Group “Our Dearest” representatives.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian sentenced to 18 years for supposed plan to kill Russian-installed Crimea ‘leader’

Russia has claimed at least 40 Ukrainian men and women were involved in ‘sabotage’ plots with the only ‘evidence’ typically provided by videoed ‘confessions’ extracted through torture

• War crimes

Ukraine finally joins the International Criminal Court but invokes controversial limitation

While good that Ukraine’s legislators have finally passed a law which can help fight impunity for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed since Russia began its aggression, the limitation is frustrating

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Dangers lurk behind Ukraine’s ban on Russian-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church

The active support shown by Kirill and his patriarchate for Russia’s war of aggression is criminal, but the ban of a Ukrainian Church which now denies affiliation may prove a Pandora’s box

• The right to life   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Imprisoned Crimean Tatar civic journalist will die soon without life-saving heart surgery

Amet Suleimanov should never have been imprisoned, let alone delivered a death sentence for his Crimean Solidarity journalism.  Please help ensure that Russia is stopped from carrying it out!

• War crimes

Incriminating sentence exposes Russia’s crimes against Donbas hostage and against Ukraine

Oleksandr Korol was seized while Russia was claiming to have nothing to do with the armed conflict in Donbas, yet 7 years on, it charged him with revealing information about Russian military sites