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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Horrific sentences where any Ukrainian will do in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia has massively increased its persecution of Crimeans on ‘treason’ and ‘sabotage’ charges since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, however the methods, including savage torture, remain those used since 2014

• Publicistics

How do you overcome the negative emotions that get to you every day?

Optimism, altruism, and slight madness: the director of KHPG, Yevhen Zakharov, shares how to protect human rights during the war without burnout.

Russia secretly buries the bodies of the Ukrainian teenagers it murdered in occupied Berdiansk

Russia is using immensely cynical excuses for blocking access to the bodies of 16-year-old Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanharov, while also refusing to hand over the body of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna

Ukrainian POWs tortured for ‘confessions’ to Russia's war crimes and for show trials

While the release of Maksym Butkevych does provide some hope, Russia is churning out a terrifying number of insane sentences against Ukrainian defenders after extracting ‘confessions’ through torture

Russia kills more Ukrainian POWs while UN Secretary-General wined and dined by Putin

It defies belief that António Guterres saw fit to visit Russia and Putin, who is under an International Criminal Court arrest warrant, while Russia continues killing Ukrainian POWs, abducting Ukrainian children and countless other war crimes

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian occupation ‘court’ dissolves independent Crimean Tatar Muslim community, after imprisoning several members

Russia has been persecuting the 'Alushta' Muslim community and its members for several years, unwilling to tolerate either its religious independence or the fact that it legally occupied the historic Yukary Dzhami Mosque in Alushta

Russia sentences Ukrainian to 18 years for refusing to fight against Ukraine

Denys Narolsky from Crimea was already a recognized political prisoner because of his 9-year sentence for ‘desertion’. Now Russia has used its weaponization of citizenship to claim this was ‘treason’

Young Ukrainian from Russian-occupied Melitopol sentenced for 'inciting terrorism' over 2017 social media post against Putin

Everything about Oleksandr Plysiuk’s arrest in March from the insane charges over a 2017 post to the ‘court trial’ seem aimed at providing a chilling warning to other Ukrainians on occupied territory

• Voices of war • Interview

Voices of Mariupol — a film by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

The heroes of our film lived an ordinary happy life. Carefree schoolgirl Mariia Vdovichenko dreamed of dancing at the graduation, doctor Hanna Shevchyk cherished newborns, Yevhen Sosnovsky realized himself as a talented photo artist. Instead, on February 24, 2022, the Russians turned their beloved city into hell.

Russia claims it ‘detained’ a young Ukrainian student on ‘spying charges’ two years after abducting her in Kherson region

Hanna Yeltsova was only 20 when seized by the Russians who almost certainly used torture to extract a supposed 'confession' on video

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

First Russia abducts and imprisons young Crimean Tatar, then it sentences his father on equally nonsensical charges

Appaz Kurtamet was just 19 when first seized and almost certainly tortured by the Russian FSB before being sentenced to 7 years. Now his father has received an even longer sentence

Mariupol only for the invaders. Russia changes street names to totally plunder Ukrainian owners

Russia’s ‘restoration’ of Mariupol is reminiscent of the notorious Potemkin villages, with the truth sordid and very cynical

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