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Three Ukrainian teenagers face possible life sentences in latest Russian show trial

The three were arrested in occupied Melitopol almost a year ago and Russia’s behaviour to date gives no grounds for hoping that their age would protect them from being tortured for ‘confessions’

Russian teachers trained to 'reform' Ukrainian children in occupied Ukraine

While cultivating far-right and neo-Nazi movements worldwide, Russia and its propaganda bodies present efforts to destroy Ukrainian identity as ‘countering neo-Nazism’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Long sentences against Ukrainians tortured into confessing to fake Crimean assassination plot

Oleksandr Lytvyenko and Kostiantyn Yevmenenko are among ten victims of just one of countless ‘Crimean saboteur’ cases which Russia’s FSB has been fabricating since 2014

New reprisal sentences against Alexei Gorinov and lawyer for condemning Russian atrocities in Ukraine

A Russian court has sentenced lawyer Dmitry Talantov to seven years on identical charges to those laid against Alexei Gorinov while the latter, who is already 63, has received a second sentence on equally grotesque charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Second Russian death sentence for a conversation? Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s health sharply deteriorates

Despite Servet Gaziev’s age (64), recent micro stroke and other serious health issues, Russia is continuing its torment of the Crimean Tatar political prisoner sentenced to 13 years for his defence of other victims of repression

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

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