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Ukrainian political prisoner moved to harshest Russian prison for ‘discrediting’ Russian army

Russia used the notorious Izolyatsia secret prison in occupied Donetsk to torture Oleksandr Marchenko, and has now escalated his torment in Russian captivity for refusal to repeat lies about the war against Ukraine

• War crimes

Russia sentences 18-year-old Ukrainian POW to 18 years for defending his country

The sentence against Vladyslav Plakhotnyk is chilling in its abuse of a flawed Supreme Court ruling to bring surreal ‘terrorism charges’ against a young man serving in his own country’s Armed Forces against an invader

• War crimes

Invaders in occupied Luhansk oblast threaten to take newborn babies away if parents don’t get Russian citizenship

Russia's aggressive methods of 'passportization' at gunpoint leave no grounds for believing these to be empty threats

• The right to a fair trial

Behind bars for a “like”: the dissenting opinion of Judge Arkadii Bushchenko

The court upheld the conviction of a 70-year-old pensioner to 1 year in prison for “liking” a post about a Russian general. Arkadii Bushchenko explains why such punishments have nothing to do with a democratic society.

• War crimes

Approximately 28,000 Ukrainians have disappeared under special circumstances

The International Commission on Missing Persons signed memorandums of cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘There were people screaming in the destroyed houses and nobody was allowed to help them’

Serhii Vitkovskyi did not evacuate from Borodianka (Kyiv Region) because he could not leave his dog — a huge Alabai. Serhii tells how the Russian troops did not allow anyone to rescue people from the destroyed houses, and how his friend was shot dead in the middle of the street.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Massive spike in ‘List of Terrorists and Extremists’ as Russia persecutes critics of its war against Ukraine and LGBT

Russia’s failure to heed warnings about the recent Crocus City Hall terrorist attack was probably because its enforcement bodies were far too busy fabricating cases against Ukrainians or those opposing Russia’s war of aggression

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Revenge imprisonment in Russia extended of young Crimean Tatar woman seized for trying to visit her gravely ill father

It is 18 months since the Russians took Leniye Umerova prisoner, with the accusation of mystery ‘spying’ only emerging after a string of wildly implausible other charges

• Events

Russia sentences Ukrainian to 25 years for ‘railway sabotage commissioned by Ukraine, Poland and Latvia’

The charges against 46-year-old Serhiy Karmazin are based solely on a videoed ‘confession’ while Russia’s FSB actively prevented him from seeing an independent lawyer

• Voices of war   • Interview

'There was a cemetery here' — a resident of the village of Zahaltsi

Serhii Smyrnov lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. The family finished fixing the house just before the start of the war. They kept goats and poultry. The Russians forced the family to leave their native village, and when the family returned, neither the house nor the birds were there.

• War crimes

Russia plans extra propaganda classes in occupied Ukraine to “correct flawed understanding of history”

Even with draconian legislation enabling Russia to imprison people for telling the truth about its crimes, the aggressor state is clearly finding it harder than anticipated to inculcate its rewritten version of 'history'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Two years of unrelenting Russian torture of Ukrainian civic journalist Iryna Danilovych

It is two years since the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea abducted Iryna Danilovych and tried to torture her into ‘confessing’ to fictitious ‘treason’ and contacts with western organizations. Their medical torture continues