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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

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chilling echoes as Russian FSB abduct Chief Editor of Crimean Tatar children’s magazine

The disappearance of 61-year-old Ediye Muslimova came soon after a sustained attack on another Crimean Tatar publication and after all too many abductions in occupied Crimea, some of the victims of which vanished without trace

Russian invaders forced unarmed Ukrainian POWs to strip naked, then killed them

Further evidence has emerged, through an intercepted call, that such war crimes are deliberate Russian policy

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Solidarity needed with Ukrainian artist sentenced to 15 years for protesting Russia’s war against Ukraine

“Any person who fails to speak out against this war, who does nothing to stop it, is a passive accomplice to this terrible crime committed by the Russian regime” Bohdan Ziza in a letter from a Russian prison

19-year-old from Russian-occupied Luhansk faces 15-year sentence for donation to Ukraine’s Azov Regiment

The ‘terrorism’ charges against Ivan Semykoz for supporting Ukrainian defenders were under an occupation department “on investigating particularly important cases”,

Russia forcibly conscripts Mariupol lads into its invading army

Young Ukrainians have been forced to ‘swear allegiance’ to the country that has invaded their homeland, causing carnage, destruction and immense suffering

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

One-year prison sentence in Russian-occupied Crimea for the words ‘Glory to Ukraine’

The 'trial' and sentence against Dmytro Yezhov is one of a huge number where Ukrainians have been ‘convicted of discrediting’ Russia’s armed forces merely by expressing pro-Ukrainian views

Russian invaders destroy ‘anti-Russian’ memorials to victims of Holodomor in occupied Kherson oblast

Denial of Holodomor has long been a part of Russia’s war against historical memory. In areas under Russian occupation it has become an aspect of Russia’s aggression against all that is Ukrainian

Mariupol woman sentenced to 11 years in Russia’s mass copy-paste ‘spying trials’ against Ukrainians

Olha Pichurina and Dmytro Shainoha were abducted and held for very long periods before Russia admitted to their ‘detention’ and staged sentences on ‘spying’ charges repeated verbatim from case to case

Russa sentences Ukrainian mother of four to 14 years on ‘treason’ charges for supporting Ukraine

Oksana Hladkykh was doubtless targeted for her open opposition to Russia’s occupation of her home in Zaporizhzhia oblast

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar Mejlis: No ‘peace deals’ with Russia without Crimea as part of Ukraine

Crimea is Ukraine, the Mejlis stresses, and any territorial concessions to Russia will only whet Moscow’s appetite for more

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