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Ongoing terror as Russia passes grotesque 'sentence' against abducted Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee

62-year-old Serhiy Spartesny had been held incommunicado and probably tortured for over a year before Russia admitted to his imprisonment. He is one of many employees of the plant held hostage

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Russia fabricates massive sentences against Ukrainian POWs, accusing them of its carnage and devastation in Ukraine

Danielle Bell, head of the OHCHR Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, has said that Russia subjects over 95% of Ukrainian POWs to torture, with this undoubtedly how the ‘confessions’ used in fake ‘trials’ were obtained

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Take the Russian invaders’ citizenship or starve in occupied parts of Ukraine

Russia is preventing Ukrainians from returning to occupied Ukraine, telling many that their homes have been ‘confiscated’. Those who remain, including elderly people, are refused healthcare, pensions, etc, if they refuse Russian citizenship

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Occupation ‘court’ finds Russia’s brutal violation of Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s rights unlawful

Russia is violating international law both by imprisoning Crimean political prisoners and by holding them thousands of kilometres from their home

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Stalin era denunciations resurrected in all parts of Ukrainę under Russian occupation

Under the guise of fighting 'extremism', Russia is hunting down those with a pro-Ukrainian position, and trying to get neighbours, work colleagues, or even shop assistants to denounce others

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Russia fabricates absurd 'spying' charges against Ukrainian abducted from Kherson oblast in 2022

Vladyslav Bily was seized and almost certainly tortured by the Russians who invaded his native Ukraine two and a half years ago and have now concocted preposterous charges

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The Complexities of Working in a Conflict Zone and Mechanisms for Seeking Justice for the Victims and Survivors of Violence

Yevhen Zakharov's speech at the conference of partners of the “Dignity” Centre on 17 September

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Russian invaders sentence Melitopol resident to 18 years for brazenly fake ‘thwarted saboteur plot’

Russia has brought abductions, torture and videoed ‘confessions’ to every part of Ukraine that falls under its occupation, with no attempt to prevent glaring discrepancies

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Russians savagely execute unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of war

This apparent execution of an unarmed POW whose hands were probably bound is the latest of 64 currently under investigation with such war crimes of a systemic nature

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia confirms horrific 17-year sentence against blind and disabled Ukrainian on insane ‘terrorism’ charges

Three men have been imprisoned for 12-17 years, without any crime, on the basis of planted ‘prohibited religious literature’ which Oleksandr Sizikov could not have read as it wasn’t in Braille and a notorious ‘secret witness’

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Leniye Umerova and many other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs released in major Ukraine – Russia exchange

49 Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages were freed on 13 September, 103 POWs released the following day. While Ukraine rejoiced, Putin and Russian propaganda media were silent about the prisoners of war returned to Russia

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Russia’s ‘Youth Army’ used to get Ukrainians on occupied territory to fight against Ukraine

Russia has dropped any pretence that membership of Yunarmia is voluntary, and that it is not linked with trying to force young Ukrainians to fight and die for the invading state