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Take the Russian invaders’ citizenship or starve in occupied parts of Ukraine

Russia is preventing Ukrainians from returning to occupied Ukraine, telling many that their homes have been ‘confiscated’. Those who remain, including elderly people, are refused healthcare, pensions, etc, if they refuse Russian citizenship

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Occupation ‘court’ finds Russia’s brutal violation of Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s rights unlawful

Russia is violating international law both by imprisoning Crimean political prisoners and by holding them thousands of kilometres from their home

Stalin era denunciations resurrected in all parts of Ukrainę under Russian occupation

Under the guise of fighting 'extremism', Russia is hunting down those with a pro-Ukrainian position, and trying to get neighbours, work colleagues, or even shop assistants to denounce others

Russia fabricates absurd 'spying' charges against Ukrainian abducted from Kherson oblast in 2022

Vladyslav Bily was seized and almost certainly tortured by the Russians who invaded his native Ukraine two and a half years ago and have now concocted preposterous charges

The Complexities of Working in a Conflict Zone and Mechanisms for Seeking Justice for the Victims and Survivors of Violence

Yevhen Zakharov's speech at the conference of partners of the “Dignity” Centre on 17 September

Russian invaders sentence Melitopol resident to 18 years for brazenly fake ‘thwarted saboteur plot’

Russia has brought abductions, torture and videoed ‘confessions’ to every part of Ukraine that falls under its occupation, with no attempt to prevent glaring discrepancies

Russians savagely execute unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of war

This apparent execution of an unarmed POW whose hands were probably bound is the latest of 64 currently under investigation with such war crimes of a systemic nature

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia confirms horrific 17-year sentence against blind and disabled Ukrainian on insane ‘terrorism’ charges

Three men have been imprisoned for 12-17 years, without any crime, on the basis of planted ‘prohibited religious literature’ which Oleksandr Sizikov could not have read as it wasn’t in Braille and a notorious ‘secret witness’

Leniye Umerova and many other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs released in major Ukraine – Russia exchange

49 Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages were freed on 13 September, 103 POWs released the following day. While Ukraine rejoiced, Putin and Russian propaganda media were silent about the prisoners of war returned to Russia

Russia’s ‘Youth Army’ used to get Ukrainians on occupied territory to fight against Ukraine

Russia has dropped any pretence that membership of Yunarmia is voluntary, and that it is not linked with trying to force young Ukrainians to fight and die for the invading state

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

Occupation 'court' increases sentence against abducted Crimean Tatar for not admitting to fictitious ‘crime’

58-year-old Akim Gafarov, who was seized from occupied Kherson oblast back in 2022, was also deemed to not be ill enough despite serious health issues

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean imprisoned for criticising blocking of YouTube in occupied Ukraine and Russia

Suleiman Yusupov was hunted down by the notorious CrimeanSMERSH, forced to ‘repent’ on video and ‘tried’ for asking why others were silent when Russia was trying to crush their freedom

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