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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

• Events

Ten years of Russian torment for a photo of cows grazing on a disused aerodrome

Viktor Shur is almost 68, with Russia's torture and 10 years of imprisonment having taken a terrible toll on his health

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Life sentence sought in Finland against Russian neo-Nazi charged with war crimes in Ukraine

Yan Petrovsky is on trial, under the name Voislav Torden, assumed to try to avoid international sanctions, accused of five grave war crimes in occupied Luhansk oblast

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Russia concocts 11-year sentence for 'spying' almost 3 years after abducting and torturing Vladyslav Bily

37-year-old Vladyslav Bily disappeared without trace in March 2022, with Russia only admitting to holding him and coming up with 'spying' charges in September 2024

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean sentenced to 16 years for circulating video on resistance to Russian occupation

26-year-old Eldar Abduraimov had circulated a video about the ATESH partisan movement which arose in 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian court blocks Crimean Tatar political prisoners from ‘dragging out the trial’ by challenging fake prosecution witness

Russian ‘judge’ Roman Saprunov could not have stated more openly that the sentences against six Crimean Tatar civic activists are predetermined, with fake evidence not a problem

• Events

Yevhen Zakharov: '...And that's when we created KHPG'

Fighting against punitive psychiatry, helping distributors of the informal press, and... gardening. On the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group's birthday, its director, Yevhen Zakharov, tells us how it all began.

• War crimes

Russians torture Mayor of Dniprorudne Yevhen Matvieiev to death

In February 2022 Yevhen Matvieiev led unarmed residents of Dniprorudne in telling Russian invaders to keep their tanks out of his Ukrainian city. He was seized two weeks later and had not been seen since

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Russia brings ‘spying’ charges after abducting and torturing young Ukrainian with serious psychiatric condition

The Russians almost tortured and starved Leonid Popov to death in 2023, and have now brought cynical ‘spying charges’ against an immensely vulnerable young man in desperate need of medication and care

• Implementation of European Law   • The right to a fair trial

Open Letter on Improving the Anti-Corruption Infrastructure in Ukraine

We strive to build a state governed by the rule of law, where corruption has no place. But we have to admit that anti-corruption agencies do not adhere to the rule of law, have inherited Soviet approaches, and imitate the fight against corruption.

• War crimes

Three Ukrainian teenagers face possible life sentences in latest Russian show trial

The three were arrested in occupied Melitopol almost a year ago and Russia’s behaviour to date gives no grounds for hoping that their age would protect them from being tortured for ‘confessions’

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Russian teachers trained to 'reform' Ukrainian children in occupied Ukraine

While cultivating far-right and neo-Nazi movements worldwide, Russia and its propaganda bodies present efforts to destroy Ukrainian identity as ‘countering neo-Nazism’