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Russian invaders abduct 52 civilians, including children, from Sumy oblast

While Ukraine is under huge pressure to ‘hand Russia unoccupied Donbas’, the invaders are continuing to seize other territory, committing the same war crimes seen in 2022

Ukraine-Sweden: Upholding Human Rights for Victims of the Russian War

A year ago, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, in partnership with the Swedish organization Eastern Group for Democracy and Human Rights (Östgruppen för demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter), began a project to assist Ukrainians who suffered from crimes committed during Russian aggression. We talked about the interim results with one of the project coordinators, Ihor Kulish. The project called “Restore Human Rights for Victims of Russia’s War” is funded by the Swedish Institute (SI).

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Imprisoned Crimean Solidarity activist Tofik Abdulgaziev needs urgent operation for a malignant brain tumour

Tofik Abdulgaziev has been imprisoned since 2019 for his integrity and human rights activism, with Russia causing all of the earlier conditions which have gravely undermined his health

While others are celebrating, Ukrainian POWs are being tortured in Russian prisons

Russia's torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian hostages is unrelentingly savage, with every reason to believe that this is deliberate state policy

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s supreme court OKs illegal charges & faked 'evidence' against Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Russian ‘judges’ saw no problem in rubberstamping an evident and internationally condemned attack on civic journalists and activists from the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement

• Voices of war

‘They were striking me on the head, putting a gun to the back of my head, and pretending to pull the triggerʼ

100 days in a secret prison of the Ministry of State Security of the so-called “DPR”. 13 years in a strict regime penal colony. Beatings, simulated executions, broken ribs, and a cold basement — this is the story of civilian prisoner, neurophysiologist Yuri Shapovalov, who waited until a prisoner exchange and eventually returned home.

Not Only Dr. Evil: Medical Care behind Russian Bars

What is it like to survive in captivity, suffering from a stroke, tuberculosis, or diabetes, when instead of medical care you often receive beatings and humiliation?

Russia passes huge sentences against 65-year-old Melitopol pensioner and two other Ukrainians for their patriotism

Iryna Sukhodei was claimed by an invading power to have committed treason by supporting her own country

Putin gives green light to expropriation of Ukrainians’ homes on occupied territory

Russian ‘filtration’ measures at Sheremetyevo are making it very clear that Ukrainians are not wanted on occupied territory, with the Russian invaders effectively given carte blanche to plunder their property

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Two Ukrainian women could face 6-year sentences for their faith as Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea

50-year-old Olena Ivashina and Olha Podlesna (55) are under house arrest following the latest armed raids against men and women for studying the Bible

• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences disabled Crimean Tatar from occupied Kherson oblast to 8 years for opposing its occupation of Crimea

Eldar Karamurzaev is one of thirty men abducted from occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and illegally charged under Russian legislation with legal activities on Ukrainian territory

65-year-old Donetsk teacher sentenced to 12 years because Russia couldn’t imprison its real target

Valentyna Zayarna received a massive sentence for giving shelter to a Ukrainian defender, for trying to pick up a parcel for him and, probably, because Denys Storozhuk is safely out of Russia’s reach

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