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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia uses surreal charges and crippling fines to silence veteran Crimean Tatar newspaper

Not only is the occupying state prosecuting journalists for citing a UN report on rights violations in occupied Crimea, but it has claimed that this constituted 'abuse of freedom of mass information'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Relentless torment and 14-year sentences because Russia needed another 'Crimean saboteur' show trial

Volodymyr Dudka and Oleksiy Bessarabov got horrific sentences, despite obviously fabricated ‘evidence’, for being Ukrainian and because they had refused to admit to the preposterous charges

Gruesome murders as ‘collateral damage’ in Russia’s use of criminals for war against Ukraine

Putin’s ‘new Russian elite’ know that they can commit new crimes and escape prosecution by signing another (lucrative) contract to kill Ukrainians

16-year ‘sentence’ in occupied Luhansk oblast for opposing Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russia has been staging such judicial farces since 2014, and It is likely that both Oleksandr Sokolov and Viktor Soldatko were tortured to obtain their 'confessions' to actions that were in no way illegal,

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean Tatar gets 12-year sentence for non-existent plan to attack Russian puppet ‘minister’

This is the latest of very many such ‘trials’ based solely on fake witnesses and ‘confessions’ extracted through savage torture

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

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

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

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

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

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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