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Students in occupied Crimea and Russia coerced, conned and threatened into going to fight against Ukraine

Russia is enlisting educational institutions as accomplices in trying to trick or force students to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia sentences Kherson oblast woman to 10 years just after UN Commission blasts such ‘predetermined verdicts'

The ‘trial’ and sentence against Olena Nishanova were identical to those against Iryna Hedzyk, Olena Kosenko and very many others, with the UN Commission damning the brazen violation of all principles of a fair trial

• Voices of war

‘You won't get out of hereʼ: the story of Konstantin Davydenkoʼs Russian captivity

Officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Konstantin Davydenko on February 11, 2018, in the temporarily occupied Simferopol, accusing him of "espionage." The man spent seven and a half years in penitentiary facilities, during which he endured physical and psychological torture. In a maximum-security penal colony, Konstantin had a stroke, and his health was severely compromised. On August 24, 2025, he was freed as part of a captive exchange.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean sentenced to 18 years for a phone video of boats from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet

Russia’s FSB first hid Charaz Akimov, almost certainly torturing him to extract a ‘confession’, which was still not enough to come up with any realistic charges, despite two ‘trials’

Russia’s highest court upholds terror against Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employees

The 'judges' chose not to ask why Serhiy Korzh and his twin brother had been abducted & held incommunicado, with Serhiy, a Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant engineer tortured into saying he had directed Ukrainian military fire on the plant

29 civilians abducted from Kherson oblast were tortured to death or died from lack of treatment in Russian captivity

An important MIHR study has followed how Russia first used a totally unsuited checkpoint as a prison for torturing abducted hostages and then integrated it into its penal system

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences Crimean to 15 years for sharing information available on Google Maps

Not only were there no state secrets, but the information was even listed in the appalling sentence passed against 47-year-old Ihor Bunin

I repeated it like a prayer: ‘Donbas is Ukraine!’

We share the story of how Horlivka teacher Natalia Shilo was held captive and later released. In the toughest times, her natural sense of justice, anger toward the occupiers, and... a higher mathematics workbook helped her survive.

Russia’s deportation and enforced disappearances of Ukrainian children are crimes against humanity – UN Commission

Despite the lies and backtracking after Putin’s arrest warrant, Russia made no effort to find children’s relatives and has not returned 80% of those children whose cases the Commission documented

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian political prisoner faces new 'trial' and life sentence for opposing Russia's occupation of Crimea

Oleh Prykhodko is 67 and has already spent seven years in Russian captivity in reprisal for his openly pro-Ukrainian stand.

Occupiers are blackmailing the families of prisoners of war by demanding they register Starlink terminals in their names

Coordination Headquarters warns that Russians are trying to intimidate Ukrainians whose relatives are in captivity. They aim to regain control of the illegal Starlink terminals that SpaceX recently disconnected.

10-year sentence for love of Ukraine against 71-year-old pensioner under Russian occupation

Russia couldn’t charge Ukrainian Mykola Tynkov with ‘treason’, so came up with equally surreal charges in order to punish him for supporting his own country

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