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Russia charges Ukrainian from occupied Melitopol with ‘calls to terrorism’ for old social media post about Putin

Russia is intensifying terror in occupied Ukraine with Ukrainians seized for social media posts from long before its full-scale invasion

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Ukrainian-born paediatrician faces long sentence on ‘fake news’ charge based on true words about Russia’s war against Ukraine

Although effectively charged solely with telling the harsh truth, it is possible that 68-year-old Nadezhda Buyanova, who is from Lviv, was simply a convenient target

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

More sentences passed, one escalated for studying the Bible in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia is continuing to find Ukrainian Jehovah's Witnesses, in this case Serhiy Parfenovych and Yury Herashchenko guilty of ‘organizing extremist activities’ for practising their faith

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Ukrainian POW wounded, but survives after the Russians gun down four of his comrades after they surrendered

Yevhen Roman was left for dead by the Russians who killed four other unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war in cold blood, an undoubted war crime

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

Russia resorts to fake medical assessments to conceal death sentence against Crimean Tatar civic journalist Amet Suleimanov

The Russians implicated in imprisoning Amet Suleimanov for reporting Russian repression in Crimea are willing to cause his death rather than ‘risk’ releasing a political prisoner

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Pensioner jailed in Russian-occupied Crimea for expressing support for Ukraine in a shop

The prosecution of 63-year-old Anatoliy Holiakovych and, seemingly, his son, underscores the pro-Ukrainian and anti-war sentiments in occupied Crimea, and the sinister methods Russia uses to fight them

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

Russia’s Investigative Committee tortures Ukrainians for fabricated ‘trials’, and now demands the death penalty

Aleksandr Bastrykin and Russia’s Investigative Committee have been using torture to fabricate preposterous charges against Ukrainians since 2014, making his call for Putin to reinstate the death penalty chilling

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ICC arrest warrants deal fatal blow to demand that Ukraine accepts Russian occupation 'in exchange for peace'

The International Criminal Court has now issued six arrest warrants of high-ranking Russians, including Vladimir Putin and the top men waging Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

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

Nariman Dzhelyal, tortured Donbas hostages and Berdiansk priests freed, others remain in Russian captivity and in danger

The release of the Crimean Tatar leader, Donbas hostages and imprisoned priests show that publicity and pressure can help, and underscores how much torment other hostages are enduring

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Victory for Ukraine as ECHR delivers damning judgement against Russia over systematic violations in occupied Crimea

Russia is typically trying to deny the Court’s jurisdiction after it suffered a huge defeat in the first of Ukraine’s inter-state cases against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights

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Russia uses Sheremetyevo Airport ‘filtration’ to keep out Ukrainians and steal their homes in occupied Ukraine

Russia is imposing particularly restrictive measures against Ukrainians trying to reach their own homes in occupied Ukraine in order to appropriate their land

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Ukrainian abducted, tortured and sentenced in Russia to 14 years on grotesque ‘international terrorism’ charges

Yaroslav Zhuk was subjected to relentless torture, including electric currents attached to genitals, and savage beatings to force out a ‘confession’ to absurd charges