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Ukrainians in Russian captivity, ‘trials’ of ‘terrorists,’ and forcibly displaced children — what the report on human rights in Russia says

Last week, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, released a new report. Here, we discuss the parts that are particularly important for Ukraine.

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Ukraine lodges war crime probe over killing of journalist Victoria Roshchyna in Russian captivity

(Update) Ukraine’s Prosecutor General has initiated a criminal investigation into the death in Russian captivity of Victoria Roshchyna, with her death classified as a war crime linked with murder

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Another Russian ‘trial’ by Crimean Tatar family echoing Stalin era persecution

Russia’s attack on the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement was also an attack on one family, whose elderly parents have now lost all their sons, some 80 years after Stalin’s regime came for their great grandfather

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences Crimean to 14 years on indictment copy-pasted from countless FSB political trials

While Russia’s effective information blockade means there is little information about 47-year-old Ihor Kopyl, there are all too many echoes from the charges used to imprison numerous Ukrainian political prisoners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Dramatic increase in sentence against two Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Serhiy Parfenovych and Yury Heraschenko have become the latest in a very large number of Ukrainians imprisoned by the aggressor state for peacefully practising their faith

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Iryna Navalna abducted from occupied Mariupol, tortured and sentenced in Russia to 8 years ‘because of her name’

The slight reduction in the charges against the 26-year-old Ukrainian simply incriminates the court which clearly understood that the charges were absurd and that Iryna was telling the truth about the horrific torture she endured

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Melitopol businesswoman dead after being abducted by the Russian invaders

51-year-old Tetiana Plachkova had, at very least, been denied proper medical care, and now Russia is claiming it does not know the whereabouts of Oleh Platchkov, a year after it abducted him from his Melitopol home

• Events

Renowned Russian civic activist Ildar Dadin killed defending Ukraine

Ildar had seen no choice but to take up arms in order to counter the mass killings and other crimes that his country was committing against Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian ‘justice’ in occupied Crimea - 17-year sentence and shattered childhoods for discussing a book in 2015

If Russia has its way, Raif Fevziev's children will be young adults when their father is released from a sentence based solely on a conversation in his own home, and on his civic activism

• Events

Schoolkids in Russia and occupied Ukraine forced to ‘celebrate’ Russian annexation as ‘reunification’

Russian indoctrination claiming ‘reinstatement of historical truth’ and of its ‘historical borders’ is especially chilling given that the claims include Ukrainian territory not under its occupation

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Probe launched into mass execution of Ukrainian POWs as UN documents Russia’s systematic torture and other war crimes

Russian invaders have probably killed sixteen unarmed Ukrainian defenders, with this only one of a huge number of documented crimes that call for accountability, not just reports

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Dmytro Vovk: What awaits Ukraine after the law banning the Ukranian Orthodox Church?

The law banning religious organizations that have the center of influence in the Russian Federation has already entered into force recently. What will be the consequences of increased state intervention in religious affairs? How will the European Court of Human Rights react to the ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church? We spoke to an expert.