Menu
All publications

• War crimes

War crimes investigation launched after Russians post video showing beheaded Ukrainian soldier

This is the second of two reports in August alone of Russians mutilating the bodies of Ukrainian defenders

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Relentless brutality against Crimean Tatar civic activist sentenced to 19 years for refusing to leave Crimea and his family

Russia is not even trying to conceal the fact that it is targeting civic journalists and activists of the Crimean Tatar human rights movement - and, effectively, their children

• War crimes

New law brings Russia closer to mobilizing Ukrainians on occupied territory to fight against Ukraine

Russia has already forcibly mobilized Ukrainians from occupied Donbas, sending many to their death, and is now clearly planning to extend open or covert conscription or mobilization on all occupied territory

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia may imprison 68-year-old for her faith after armed raids on Jehovah’s Witnesses in 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

Russia sentences Ukrainian to 12 years on fake Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant ‘terrorism’ charges

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

A Vision of Victory

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.

• War crimes

Abducted and tortured 56-year-old Ukrainian’s life in danger after two years of Russian captivity

Yuriy Sadovsky has grave health problems which will have been exacerbated, if not caused, by the savage torture he endured

• War crimes

Ever-mounting death toll of Russia's state-sponsored medical terror against Ukraine

Well over 200 hospitals have been totally destroyed in attacks where, in very many cases, Russia must have known what it was bombing

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar businessman abducted and imprisoned for supporting blockade of Russian-occupied Crimea 9 years ago

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

• War crimes

Chilling twist in Russia’s abduction of young engineer from occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

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.

• War crimes

‘Nowhere but the cemetery': Russia destroys Mariupol and plunders land, leaving residents homeless

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

• War crimes

Ukrainian prisoner of war was killed in Russian prison, probably tortured to death

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