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A Russian court has sentenced lawyer Dmitry Talantov to seven years on identical charges to those laid against Alexei Gorinov while the latter, who is already 63, has received a second sentence on equally grotesque charges
• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Despite Servet Gaziev’s age (64), recent micro stroke and other serious health issues, Russia is continuing its torment of the Crimean Tatar political prisoner sentenced to 13 years for his defence of other victims of repression
• War crimes
Ihor Protokovilo is one of many Ukrainian elected deputies, mayors, journalists, civic activists and other civilians whom Russia has been holding prisoner, usually incommunicado since 2022
Serhiy Kuris was subjected to electric shocks, horrific beatings and other torture, but it was the threat to torture his wife and baby son that forced him to sign ‘confessions’ which he later retracted, graphically describing the methods applied
The disappearance of 61-year-old Ediye Muslimova came soon after a sustained attack on another Crimean Tatar publication and after all too many abductions in occupied Crimea, some of the victims of which vanished without trace
Further evidence has emerged, through an intercepted call, that such war crimes are deliberate Russian policy
“Any person who fails to speak out against this war, who does nothing to stop it, is a passive accomplice to this terrible crime committed by the Russian regime” Bohdan Ziza in a letter from a Russian prison
The ‘terrorism’ charges against Ivan Semykoz for supporting Ukrainian defenders were under an occupation department “on investigating particularly important cases”,
Young Ukrainians have been forced to ‘swear allegiance’ to the country that has invaded their homeland, causing carnage, destruction and immense suffering
The 'trial' and sentence against Dmytro Yezhov is one of a huge number where Ukrainians have been ‘convicted of discrediting’ Russia’s armed forces merely by expressing pro-Ukrainian views
Denial of Holodomor has long been a part of Russia’s war against historical memory. In areas under Russian occupation it has become an aspect of Russia’s aggression against all that is Ukrainian
Olha Pichurina and Dmytro Shainoha were abducted and held for very long periods before Russia admitted to their ‘detention’ and staged sentences on ‘spying’ charges repeated verbatim from case to case