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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia confirms horrific 17-year sentence against blind and disabled Ukrainian on insane ‘terrorism’ charges

Three men have been imprisoned for 12-17 years, without any crime, on the basis of planted ‘prohibited religious literature’ which Oleksandr Sizikov could not have read as it wasn’t in Braille and a notorious ‘secret witness’

Leniye Umerova and many other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs released in major Ukraine – Russia exchange

49 Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages were freed on 13 September, 103 POWs released the following day. While Ukraine rejoiced, Putin and Russian propaganda media were silent about the prisoners of war returned to Russia

Russia’s ‘Youth Army’ used to get Ukrainians on occupied territory to fight against Ukraine

Russia has dropped any pretence that membership of Yunarmia is voluntary, and that it is not linked with trying to force young Ukrainians to fight and die for the invading state

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

Occupation 'court' increases sentence against abducted Crimean Tatar for not admitting to fictitious ‘crime’

58-year-old Akim Gafarov, who was seized from occupied Kherson oblast back in 2022, was also deemed to not be ill enough despite serious health issues

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean imprisoned for criticising blocking of YouTube in occupied Ukraine and Russia

Suleiman Yusupov was hunted down by the notorious CrimeanSMERSH, forced to ‘repent’ on video and ‘tried’ for asking why others were silent when Russia was trying to crush their freedom

Russians carry out terror raids of families with school-age children in occupied Kherson oblast

Such aggressive methods to eradicate anything but Russian propaganda-filled ‘schools’ may well be because of continued resistance to Russian occupation

Abducted Ukrainian labelled a ‘zombie’ and charged with ‘terrorism’ for supporting Ukraine and calling Russia an invader

Kostiantyn Zinovkin is one of hundreds of people from Melitopol seized and tortured by the Russians, with charges laid after weeks or months held incommunicado

Savage torture and 11-year sentence for opposing Russia’s occupation of Kherson

Ukrainians came out everyday in protest at Russia’s occupation of Kherson in early 2022. Russia reacted both by opening fire and by abducting peaceful protesters like Serhiy Arefiev whom they then tortured and ‘tried’ on spying charges

Russia fabricates insane charges against Ukrainian partisan first seized in Donetsk 8 years ago

Everything about Russia’s ‘trial’ of Hryhory Sinchenko is profoundly illegal, with it likely that torture has been applied to try to force him to give up his independent lawyer

Ukraine lodges war crimes probe after Russians shoot unarmed Ukrainian POWs in the back

Russia is not hiding such executions, quite the contrary, with this probably part of deliberate policy

Russian propagandist and soldiers openly boast of looting homes in occupied Ukraine

Yulia Chicherina and the Russian soldiers showing off their 'trophy' clearly know that they need fear no consequences for admitting to a war crime. Why would they if Putin has 'honoured' numerous suspected war criminals?

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB come for 70-year-old mother of imprisoned Crimean Tatar civic journalist Seiran Saliyev

Zodiye Saliyeva is a veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement and no stranger to repression. Russia is now imprisoning her son on the same grotesque charges used under Stalin to execute her grandfather

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