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• Implementation of European Law

When a Scalpel Becomes a Kitchen Knife: How Ukrainian Courts Skillfully Distort ECtHR Practice

The legal positions developed by the most prominent professionals in Europe are sometimes used inappropriately, sometimes out of place, and sometimes simply in a different context than intended.

Inadmissible evidence in examinations

It is quite obvious that charges cannot be based on illegal evidence. The standards of proof in criminal proceedings should be clear and comply with the CPC. Is this really the case? Does the court exercise proper judicial control, does it evaluate evidence in accordance with the CPC?

Do today’s HACC decisions comply with European practice?

In continuation of the discussion started by Tetyana Kozachenko in her article “Can a huge bail replace justice”.

Can a huge bail replace justice?

The unrealized public demand for fighting corruption has led the law enforcement and judicial systems to imitate it. One of the methods of this imitation was the openly repressive nature of anti-corruption proceedings, especially at the pre-trial investigation stage.

• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Duma broadens ‘treason’ charges against anybody opposing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

Russia churns out surreal ‘terrorism’ sentences against Ukrainian POWs for defending Ukraine

The manipulative methods used to try to prove that men defending their country were ‘taking part in a terrorist organization’ are pitiful, and terrifyingly lawless

20-year-old from Mariupol sentenced to 11 years for argument opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia’s invasion and occupation of Mariupol have brought repression, torture and a chilling resurrection of the worst Soviet practices, including denunciation by collaborators

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea • Events

Legislators equate criticism of Russia's war against Ukraine with ‘terrorism and extremism’

A new law just passed has handed Russia’s FSB yet another “powerful weapon of persecution” against those who tell the truth about Russia’s war crimes and about Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mass ‘treason’ trials and huge sentences for helping Ukraine in Russian-occupied Crimea

The fact that Lenur Ibragimov may have earlier faced prosecution for peaceful civic activism, and that one of the ‘accusations’ against Vladyslav Afanasiev was of having donated to Ukraine’s Army only exacerbate concerns about such ‘trials’

Russia’s ‘Youth army’ used in occupied Ukraine to recruit young Ukrainians to die for the enemy

Russia’s militarization of childhood on occupied territory, and militaristic formations like ‘Yunarmia’ are war crimes, with Russia now using this so-called 'Youth Army' to get new ‘cannon fodder’ for its army

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner taken to Russia for lawless 17-year sentence

All Russia's sentences against Crimean Muslims who have committed no crime are savage, but here they have brought insane 'terrorism' charges and are imposing a 17-year sentence against a man who cannot see and needs help to move around

Russia effectively acknowledges scale of its war crimes through horrific ‘sentences’ against Ukrainian POWs

Russia almost certainly tortured the ten Ukrainian prisoners of war before staging these latest fake ‘trials’ and sentences of up to life imprisonment

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