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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian court blocks Crimean Tatar political prisoners from ‘dragging out the trial’ by challenging fake prosecution witness

Russian ‘judge’ Roman Saprunov could not have stated more openly that the sentences against six Crimean Tatar civic activists are predetermined, with fake evidence not a problem

Yevhen Zakharov: '...And that's when we created KHPG'

Fighting against punitive psychiatry, helping distributors of the informal press, and... gardening. On the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group's birthday, its director, Yevhen Zakharov, tells us how it all began.

Russians torture Mayor of Dniprorudne Yevhen Matveyev to death

In February 2022 Yevhen Matveyev led unarmed residents of Dniprorudne in telling Russian invaders to keep their tanks out of his Ukrainian city. He was seized two weeks later and had not been seen since

Russia brings ‘spying’ charges after abducting and torturing young Ukrainian with serious psychiatric condition

The Russians almost tortured and starved Leonid Popov to death in 2023, and have now brought immensely cynical ‘spying charges’ against an immensely vulnerable young man in desperate need of medication and care

• Implementation of European Law • The right to a fair trial

Open Letter on Improving the Anti-Corruption Infrastructure in Ukraine

We strive to build a state governed by the rule of law, where corruption has no place. But we have to admit that anti-corruption agencies do not adhere to the rule of law, have inherited Soviet approaches, and imitate the fight against corruption.

Three Ukrainian teenagers face possible life sentences in latest Russian show trial

The three were arrested in occupied Melitopol almost a year ago and Russia’s behaviour to date gives no grounds for hoping that their age would protect them from being tortured for ‘confessions’

Russian teachers trained to 'reform' Ukrainian children in occupied Ukraine

While cultivating far-right and neo-Nazi movements worldwide, Russia and its propaganda bodies present efforts to destroy Ukrainian identity as ‘countering neo-Nazism’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Long sentences against Ukrainians tortured into confessing to fake Crimean assassination plot

Oleksandr Lytvyenko and Kostiantyn Yevmenenko are among ten victims of just one of countless ‘Crimean saboteur’ cases which Russia’s FSB has been fabricating since 2014

New reprisal sentences against Alexei Gorinov and lawyer for condemning Russian atrocities in Ukraine

A Russian court has sentenced lawyer Dmitry Talantov to seven years on identical charges to those laid against Alexei Gorinov while the latter, who is already 63, has received a second sentence on equally grotesque charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Second Russian death sentence for a conversation? Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s health sharply deteriorates

Despite Servet Gaziev’s age (64), recent micro stroke and other serious health issues, Russia is continuing its torment of the Crimean Tatar political prisoner sentenced to 13 years for his defence of other victims of repression

Russia sentences abducted Kherson oblast deputy to 12 years for refusal to collaborate

Ihor Protokovilo is one of many Ukrainian elected deputies, mayors, journalists, civic activists and other civilians whom Russia has been holding prisoner, usually incommunicado since 2022

16-year sentence proves Russia’s lies and savage torture of Ukrainian patriot Serhiy Kuris

Serhiy Kuris was subjected to electric shocks, horrific beatings and other torture, but it was the threat to torture his wife and baby son that forced him to sign ‘confessions’ which he later retracted, graphically describing the methods applied

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