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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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
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.
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
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’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
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
The aim of these horrific sentences is presumably to terrorize Ukrainians on occupied territory and deter them from actively supporting Ukrainian defenders
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
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
There are no limits, in life or death, to Russia's brutality against those like Iryna Danilovych who refuse to be silenced
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’
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