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Huge conveyor belt sentences against Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant engineer, other Ukrainians whom Russia abducted and tortured

One of three Ukrainians, sentenced in supposedly separate ‘trials’, although on virtually identical charges, had probably been abducted in the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russia uses punitive psychiatry to ‘cure’ Mariupol teenagers of pro-Ukrainian ‘radicalism’

48 teenagers facing forced ‘psychiatric treatment’ would raise questions under any circumstances, but especially given terms like ‘extremism’ from an illegal occupying force

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia seizes Ukrainian Orthodox church in ongoing attack on all that is Ukraine in occupied Crimea

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

Urgent plea over Crimean political prisoner charged by Russia with ‘state treason’ for refusing to fight against Ukraine

A Ukrainian not wanting to take up arms against fellow Ukrainians is facing a potential life sentence on grotesquely cynical charges

Russia assures perpetrators of impunity for the killing of Ukrainian POWs, political prisoners and civilian hostages

News of another Ukrainian tortured to death in occupied Kherson oblast coincided with emerging details about Russia’s killing of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna as well as of nine Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Putin supports war propaganda ‚lessons for pre-school children in Russia and occupied Ukraine

Very small children have been dressed up in military uniforms or positioned for pro-war stunts, with the Kremlin now possibly planning to formalize such indoctrination

UK sanctions Russia over use of ‘barbaric chemical weapons in Ukraine’

The move follows similar sanctions from the USA, and mounting evidence of regular use by Russia of a toxic choking agent and other horrific weapons

Ukrainians in Russian captivity, ‘trials’ of ‘terrorists,’ and forcibly displaced children — what the report on human rights in Russia says

Last week, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, released a new report. Here, we discuss the parts that are particularly important for Ukraine.

Ukraine lodges war crime probe over killing of journalist Victoria Roshchyna in Russian captivity

(Update) Ukraine’s Prosecutor General has initiated a criminal investigation into the death in Russian captivity of Victoria Roshchyna, with her death classified as a war crime linked with murder

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Another Russian ‘trial’ by Crimean Tatar family echoing Stalin era persecution

Russia’s attack on the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement was also an attack on one family, whose elderly parents have now lost all their sons, some 80 years after Stalin’s regime came for their great grandfather

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences Crimean to 14 years on indictment copy-pasted from countless FSB political trials

While Russia’s effective information blockade means there is little information about 47-year-old Ihor Kopyl, there are all too many echoes from the charges used to imprison numerous Ukrainian political prisoners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Dramatic increase in sentence against two Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Serhiy Parfenovych and Yury Heraschenko have become the latest in a very large number of Ukrainians imprisoned by the aggressor state for peacefully practising their faith

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