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Assistance to prisoners of war, civil prisoners and their families. Analytical report

For several months, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group has been searching for prisoners of war and missing persons and providing assistance to their families. We publish the findings and results of this meticulous work.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Huge sentences in Russian-occupied Crimea for alleged attempt to kill notorious ‘Crimean SMERSH’ anti-Ukrainian vigilante

Russia's template 'trials' of Ukrainians on 'saboteur' charges are as implausible as the Investigative Committee's attempt to present Aleksandr Talipov's attacks on Ukrainians as 'carrying out his civic duty'

• Children’s rights   • War crimes

Russification at any cost in occupied Ukraine with children even physically punished for speaking Ukrainian

Russia is intent on eradicating the Ukrainian language and all aspects of Ukrainian identity, with young Ukrainians a particular target

• The right to life   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia refuses critically ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner life-saving heart surgery

Crimean Solidarity civic journalist Amet Suleimanov turned 40 on 25 October 2024 in Russian prison with his persecutors seemingly determined to cause his death

• War crimes

Finland to try Russian neo-Nazi Rusich mercenary for war crimes in Ukraine

Yan Petrrovsky (now known as Voislav Torden) and his neo-Nazi sadist comrade Alexei Milchakov, are believed to have committed horrific war crimes in 2014

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Reporters without Borders demand Russia ends torment of Crimean Tatar journalist sentenced to 14 years for defending human rights

Osman Arifmemetov refused to remain silent about Russia’s mounting repression in occupied Crimea and its vengeance was savage

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB abduct Ukrainian from her mother’s funeral in occupied Crimea

The 34-year-old was held incommunicado for three months before the Russians came up with insane 'treason' charges based on a 25-euro donation for Ukrainian drones

• War crimes

Ukrainian POW sentenced to 18 years as Russia mass produces legally nonsensical ‘terrorism trials'

The charges in all cases are illegal, but some, like those against Azov Regiment prisoner of war Oleksiy Maksymov, seem breathtakingly lawless

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Horrific sentences where any Ukrainian will do in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia has massively increased its persecution of Crimeans on ‘treason’ and ‘sabotage’ charges since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, however the methods, including savage torture, remain those used since 2014

• Publicistics

How do you overcome the negative emotions that get to you every day?

Optimism, altruism, and slight madness: the director of KHPG, Yevhen Zakharov, shares how to protect human rights during the war without burnout.

• War crimes

Russia secretly buries the bodies of the Ukrainian teenagers it murdered in occupied Berdiansk

Russia is using immensely cynical excuses for blocking access to the bodies of 16-year-old Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanharov, while also refusing to hand over the body of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna

• War crimes

Ukrainian POWs tortured for ‘confessions’ to Russia's war crimes and for show trials

While the release of Maksym Butkevych does provide some hope, Russia is churning out a terrifying number of insane sentences against Ukrainian defenders after extracting ‘confessions’ through torture