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• 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

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.

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