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61-year-old Ukrainian tells Russian court how he was forced to listen, while bound to a chair, as his wife was tortured

This is Act II in Russia's fabricated 'trial' on surreal charges claiming plans to use 'chemical weapons of mass destruction' against Diliaver Kurshutov, 61-year-old Hennadiy Kapralov and his 53-year-old wife Olha Kapralova

New propaganda film on how Russia ‘protects’ the Ukrainian children whose lives it destroyed

The film was initiated by Maria Lvova-Belova who faces war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court together with Putin over Russia's treatment of Ukrainian children and a project linked with neo-Nazi Alexei Petrov

Widow of Mariupol defender sentenced by Russian occupation ‘court’ to 14 years for ‘spying’

Anna Bieliaieva, who worked as an administrator of a rural hospital, would have been at risk from when the Russians invaded Berdiansk, because of her partner, who died defending Mariupol, and her brother who is serving in Ukraine's Armed Forces

New Russian school textbook shows unoccupied Ukrainian territory as ‘Russia’

Obvious questions, like why Russia is regularly bombing cities that are purportedly part of the Russian Federation and using drones to hunt down residents. could get children or their parents in trouble

Military medic Oleksandr Krokhmaliuk tortured to death in Russian captivity

Oleksandr Krokhmaliuk was working to save lives, and should never have been held prisoner. He is one of 406 Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages who have died in Russian captivity through torture or the failure to provide medical care

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar political prisoner illegally returned to Russian captivity and denied treatment for cancer

Russia claimed ‘full medical care’ to justify rearresting gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner Lenur Khalilov. It was a brutal lie

Savagely tortured, then sentenced by the Russians to 13 years for letters to her Ukrainian defender son

There is something especially monstrous about fabricating charges against a mother because of her letters to her son, defending Ukraine

• Voices of war

“In the ‘DPR’ torture chambers, they used electric shocks and filed teeth”

Daniil Bulgakov is a programmer from Donetsk. After the city was occupied in 2014, he moved to Kharkiv to study. In 2020, Daniil returned home to care for his seriously ill grandmother. But soon, the 22-year-old student was detained by officers of the “DPR” MGB (Ministry of State Security) and accused of “spying for Ukraine.” Daniil spent three years and four months in Russian captivity, during which he was subjected to horrific torture.

• Implementation of European Law • Monitoring

The Expert Opinion (Amicus Curiae) of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in Criminal Proceedings No. 42025000000001123

The Civil Organisation "Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group" (hereinafter – the KHPG) was approached by a Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Yuliia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (hereinafter – the Applicant), with a request to examine the materials of criminal proceedings

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia brings new ‘treason’ charges against young Crimean Tatar political prisoner after months of torture

The FSB have resorted to both physical torture and to terrorization of Mamut Belyalov's family

Russia sentences Ukrainian military pensioner to 18 years after itself admitting there were no grounds to imprison him

Victor Kuzmenko was seized for a second time when merely trying to rejoin his family after the Russians came for him in Mariupol and held him prisoner for 18 months

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Massive sentences against Yalta couple two years after Krystyna Markova was abducted by the FSB and vanished

Any 'trial' would be illegal, but in this case, it is also likely that the two were held incommunicado, without access to a lawyer and without charges being laid, for eight months

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