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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian seized in Crimea and sentenced to 12 years for donations to Ukraine's defenders

Roman Hryhorian is one of a mounting number of Ukrainians seized on occupied territory and charged with ‘treason’ for seeking to help Ukraine’s Armed Forces defend their country

• Penal institutions

Prison medicine: ways to humanize it

In the Kherson region, a prisoner falls under occupation and is taken to Russia, where he becomes seriously ill. The aggressor state releases him on health grounds, but at home, the native penitentiary system locks him up again, barely alive. Let’s find out what is wrong with the Ukrainian procedure for release from prison due to illness.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia uses medical torture to fabricate its 'trial' of disabled 74-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev

Volodymyr Ananiev, who spent years helping Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians in Crimea is now Russia’s oldest Ukrainian political prisoner and one of three victims of the latest FSB-fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur plot’

• War crimes

UN monitors report sharp increase in executions of Ukrainian POWs, and point to Russian officials’ effective incitement to kill

Not only is there evidence of Russian commanders ordering subordinates to not take prisoners, but there are constant calls to such war crimes from Russian public officials and propagandists

• The right to a fair trial   • Research

A janitor, a cook, an informer — who is being tried for collaborating with the enemy?

And also — priests, school and hospital directors, as well as ‘judges’, ‘prosecutors’, and fighters from illegal armed groups. We have analyzed the judicial practice for you.

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

Russian FSB carry out new terror raids and arrests by quota in occupied Crimea

The FSB prefer to get their ‘statistics’ by fighting whole families. First they came for Emir Kurtnezirov’s severely ill father, then for him, less than two months after he married the daughter and niece of four other Crimean Tatar political prisoners

• War crimes

Viktor Dzytsiuk was almost tortured to death in occupied Donbas. Now Russia is continuing his torment

Viktor Dzytsiuk ‘turned grey’ in a week from the torture he faced in the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk people’s republic’s Izolyatsia secret prison. Over seven years later, Russia is not letting go.

• War crimes

Ukrainian Holocaust survivor: Hitler wanted to kill me as a Jew. Putin is trying to kill me because I’m Ukrainian

Roman Schwarzman’s stark warning about Russia’s war of extermination against Ukraine came as Putin’s adviser presented a new school textbook claiming that Russia had been ‘forced’ to invade Ukraine

• War crimes

Russian FSB uses shoddily faked video to charge 63-year-old woman abducted from occupied Ukraine with ‘terrorism’

Larysa Havrylenko is one of a huge number of civilians abducted and tortured or otherwise forced into providing insanely implausible 'confessions' or video stunts

• War crimes

Ukrainian tortured, starved and sentenced to 11 years for trying to rescue his mother from Kharkiv oblast war zone

Update 29-year-old Ivan Zabavsky has managed to pass on a note in which he spoke of the torture he has endured during the ten months that he was illegally held in Russian captivity without any charge, before mystery 'spying' charges were laid

• War crimes

Russia sentences second Ukrainian abducted from Melitopol to 20 years on same fake ‘terrorism’ charges

The aggressor state illegally occupying Melitopol, in Zaporizhzhia oblast, has yet again claimed that alleged acts of resistance were ‘terrorism’

• War crimes

“People first!”campaign calls to free the captives of Russia’s invasion

With President Donald Trump set to initiate some form of peace negotiations on Ukraine this year, the coalition of human rights organisations, led by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Centre For Civil Liberties (Ukraine) and Memorial (Russia) are launching the PEOPLE FIRST! campaign.