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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar businessman abducted and imprisoned for supporting blockade of Russian-occupied Crimea 9 years ago

The Russian invaders first flung Nariman Abliazov’s wife into their basement prison soon after their seizure of Henichesk, and have now passed an illegal sentence against Abliazov

• War crimes

Chilling twist in Russia’s abduction of young engineer from occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

Russia may be trying to suggest that there is some kind of ‘Ukrainian threat’ everywhere, with it hard to imagine how else it can explain the extraordinary ‘trial’ and ‘sentence’ against Oleksiy Yefimenko.

• War crimes

‘Nowhere but the cemetery': Russia destroys Mariupol and plunders land, leaving residents homeless

After subjecting Mariupol residents to months of bombing and shelling, the Russian invaders are now either leaving them to try to survive in dangerously damaged buildings, or are reselling the properties they have plundered

• War crimes

Ukrainian prisoner of war was killed in Russian prison, probably tortured to death

According to the head of the OHCHR Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Russia subjects over 95% of Ukrainian POWs to torture, with such torture "the worst she has seen" in her 20 years of monitoring

• War crimes   • Research

‘Russia has systematically committed enforced disappearances in the same scenario’. T4P Initiative presents new research

Russia’s long-term war against Ukraine and the recent years of full-scale Russian invasion have added to the history of atrocities. Enforced disappearances have become one of the darkest pages of this history. Lists of Ukrainians to be disposed of, children illegally detained in the temporarily occupied territories, and families still searching for their loved ones. 5340 victims. The global initiative T4P (Tribunal for Putin) discussed this during the research presentation on enforced disappearances.

• Politics   • War crimes

Former Crimean Tatar political prisoner slams call from freed Russian dissidents to ease sanctions against Russia

The calls from Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin are, frankly, baffling, and not only, as Nariman Dzhelyal points out, because the sanctions really are hitting the Putin regime

• War crimes

Ukrainian woman sentenced to 15 years with Russia claiming that support for Ukraine is ‘state treason’

The aim of these horrific sentences is presumably to terrorize Ukrainians on occupied territory and deter them from actively supporting Ukrainian defenders

• War crimes

Russia sentences abducted Ukrainian Orthodox priest to 14 years for 'spying for Ukraine'

Father Kostiantyn (Maksymov) was held incommunicado for 10 months, and Russia is now trying to conceal his religious status which was, almost certainly, the reason for his abduction

• Events

Ten years of savage torture and isolation in Russian captivity for being Ukrainian

The Kremlin's 'oldest' Ukrainian political prisoner, Valentin Vyhivsky, has been held in near total isolation for almost 10 years, far more than his grandfather, a political prisoner imprisoned on equally grotesque charges during Stalin's regime

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s final brutality against imprisoned Ukrainian civic journalist Iryna Danilovych

There are no limits, in life or death, to Russia's brutality against those like Iryna Danilovych who refuse to be silenced

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian sentenced to 18 years for supposed ‘gas pipe sabotage’ in Russian-occupied Crimea

Among the many reasons for concern about this ‘conviction’ is the fact that Serhiy Yerzhov was held incommunicado for a month before being formally detained, with this period used to extract a ‘confession’

• War crimes

Ukrainian POW on ‘trial’ for defending Ukraine dies in Russian captivity

With typical brutality, Russia has provided no formal explanation for how the 55-year-old Ukrainian defender and recognized political prisoner died while in Russian captivity