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Ukrainian sentenced to 22 years as ‘rail partisan’ in Russian-occupied Crimea

As well as specific incriminating details about this ‘trial’, it is worth remembering Russia’s track record in abducting and torturing Crimeans, and threatening to kill them or hurt their families in order to extract ‘confessions’

Russian invaders abduct 53-year-old Ukrainian and sentence her to 9 years on insane ‘international terrorism’ charges

The charges laid by the aggressor state against Iryna Kulish were very obviously fabricated, as well as extraordinarily cynical and lawless given that Russia is illegally occupying her Ukrainian home

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Same fake ‘secret witness’ used in multiple Russian ‘trials’ of Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists

Crimean Solidarity journalist Rustem Osmanov and three civic activists are facing huge sentences without any crime on the basis of a ‘secret witness’ already used by the FSB for huge sentences in over ten other cases

Invaders gun down more unarmed Ukrainian POWs as proof mounts that such war crimes are Russian state policy

The number of killings this year alone, as well as intercepted calls ordering such executions, point to such flagrant war crimes being part of Kremlin policy

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia confirms revenge sentences against savagely tortured Crimean Tatar cousins, seized with Nariman Dzhelyal

All of the perpetrators need to be identified and punished for their role in this horrific travesty of justice against Asan Akhtemov and his cousin, Aziz Akhtemov

Abducted Kherson activist sentenced for ‘spying for Ukraine’ while in Russian captivity denied vital medical treatment

Russia’s ‘spying’ charges are as cynical as the initial claim that Iryna Horobtsova was being held for opposing Russia’s invasion, but the charges do reach new depths of lawlessness

• Implementation of European Law

When a Scalpel Becomes a Kitchen Knife: How Ukrainian Courts Skillfully Distort ECtHR Practice

The legal positions developed by the most prominent professionals in Europe are sometimes used inappropriately, sometimes out of place, and sometimes simply in a different context than intended.

Inadmissible evidence in examinations

It is quite obvious that charges cannot be based on illegal evidence. The standards of proof in criminal proceedings should be clear and comply with the CPC. Is this really the case? Does the court exercise proper judicial control, does it evaluate evidence in accordance with the CPC?

Do today’s HACC decisions comply with European practice?

In continuation of the discussion started by Tetyana Kozachenko in her article “Can a huge bail replace justice”.

Can a huge bail replace justice?

The unrealized public demand for fighting corruption has led the law enforcement and judicial systems to imitate it. One of the methods of this imitation was the openly repressive nature of anti-corruption proceedings, especially at the pre-trial investigation stage.

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

Duma broadens ‘treason’ charges against anybody opposing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

Russia churns out surreal ‘terrorism’ sentences against Ukrainian POWs for defending Ukraine

The manipulative methods used to try to prove that men defending their country were ‘taking part in a terrorist organization’ are pitiful, and terrifyingly lawless

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