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Russia sentences former Ukrainian defender to 19 years after torturing out a backdated ‘confession’

This latest fake trial of a Ukrainian for defending his country is especially cynical as Dmytro Nosenko’s captors tortured out a grotesque ‘confession’ to involvement in a ‘terrorist organization’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Terror behind closed doors: Russia’s abductions, torture and monstrous sentences in occupied Crimea

The massive spike in surreal 'treason' trials and sentences is continuing, with less and less known about each victim invariably identifying as opponents of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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Russia imposes criminal liability for denying previously unknown ‘genocide of the Soviet people’

The new law will further silence historical discussion and strengthen punitive measures already used against those who speak honestly about Soviet crimes, including the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people

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Melitopol IT specialist sentenced to 20 years after Russians torture out a ‘confession’ to ‘terrorist plans’

Artyom Krasko was abducted almost two and a half years ago from his native Melitopol, with it likely that he was held incommunicado without any procedural status

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Russia brings new 5-year sentence against Crimean political prisoner over 2022 social media post

Valery Shevchuk is one of a rapidly increasing number of Ukrainians imprisoned for criticism of Russian aggression, with the fact that this can be over very old social media posts especially chilling

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Russian judge convicted of war crimes over massive sentence against Ukrainian POW for defending his country

Sergei Obraztsov was well-aware that he was in violation of the Geneva Convention and fundamental principles of law when he sentenced 18-year-old Vladyslav Plakhotnik to 18 years for serving in a Ukrainian Armed Forces regiment

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Russia tortures two young Melitopol schoolboys to death, passes long sentences against three other lads

It is near certain that all five lads, aged 16 and 17, were tortured, with Viktor Azarovsky, Oleh Shokol and Denys Vasyliuk later subjected to a predetermined 'trial'. Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak died in Russian captivity

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian legislation used as weapon against 74-year-old historian and the truth about the Crimean Tatar Deportation

74-year-old Enver Seitmemetov was an obvious target of repression for a regime that is increasingly using propaganda, legislation and insane prosecutions to rewrite history and white out its crimes

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Russia’s FSB concocts charges two years after abducting Elvira Abliazova and holding her in total isolation

The FSB call it 'defrosting' when they finally imitate procedure after months or years of enforced disappearance

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Polish court allows extradition of Russian archaeologist to Ukraine over crimes in occupied Crimea

While there is a long way to go, this is a hugely important precedent, one that will hopefully be noted by those involved in work on occupied territory for the aggressor state

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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

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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