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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Tamara Bratseva is one of thirty Crimean Jehovah's Witnesses to be serving prison sentences or facing criminal prosecution for studying the Bible and practising their faith under Russia's occupation of Crimea
• War crimes
We know next to nothing about Tetiana Kliuchko, but enough about Russia’s methods to assume that any admission to bizarre charges was obtained through torture or other illegal means
• Publicistics
Only a free society of responsible citizens in partnership with a robust democratic state can overcome a totalitarian empire that is many times stronger in terms of resources.
Yuriy Sadovsky has grave health problems which will have been exacerbated, if not caused, by the savage torture he endured
Well over 200 hospitals have been totally destroyed in attacks where, in very many cases, Russia must have known what it was bombing
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
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