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Russia’s ‘Youth army’ used in occupied Ukraine to recruit young Ukrainians to die for the enemy

Russia’s militarization of childhood on occupied territory, and militaristic formations like ‘Yunarmia’ are war crimes, with Russia now using this so-called 'Youth Army' to get new ‘cannon fodder’ for its army

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner taken to Russia for lawless 17-year sentence

All Russia's sentences against Crimean Muslims who have committed no crime are savage, but here they have brought insane 'terrorism' charges and are imposing a 17-year sentence against a man who cannot see and needs help to move around

Russia effectively acknowledges scale of its war crimes through horrific ‘sentences’ against Ukrainian POWs

Russia almost certainly tortured the ten Ukrainian prisoners of war before staging these latest fake ‘trials’ and sentences of up to life imprisonment

Ten years of Russian torment for a photo of cows grazing on a disused aerodrome

Viktor Shur is almost 68, with Russia's torture and 10 years of imprisonment having taken a terrible toll on his health

Life sentence sought in Finland against Russian neo-Nazi charged with war crimes in Ukraine

Yan Petrovsky is on trial, under the name Voislav Torden, assumed to try to avoid international sanctions, accused of five grave war crimes in occupied Luhansk oblast

Russia concocts 11-year sentence for 'spying' almost 3 years after abducting and torturing Vladyslav Bily

37-year-old Vladyslav Bily disappeared without trace in March 2022, with Russia only admitting to holding him and coming up with 'spying' charges in September 2024

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean sentenced to 16 years for circulating video on resistance to Russian occupation

26-year-old Eldar Abduraimov had circulated a video about the ATESH partisan movement which arose in 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

• 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.

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