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Russia calls defence of Ukraine ‘terrorism’ and passes long sentences against Ukrainian father and son POWs

Both father and son have been in captivity since April 2022 with the charges against them both grotesque and almost certainly based on ‘confessions’ extracted through torture

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean convicted of ‘discrediting Russian army’ for explaining why Ukraine will be victorious

Rustem Nebiev was persecuted for the map of Ukraine and the expressed conviction that Ukraine, supported by its people, must be victorious

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Russia moves to change the ethnic makeup of occupied Ukraine by deporting Ukrainians and importing its own citizens

Russia is openly seeking to eradicate Ukrainian identity on Ukrainian territory, with one of the methods being to bring in its own people, very likely offering them ‘homes’ plundered from their Ukrainian owners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crippling fine against Crimean Tatar newspaper accused of ‘discrediting’ Russia’s army

Russia will not tolerate any independent media, and Qirim has not been cowered into silence

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Fake Russian occupation ‘court’ sentences Ukrainian POWs to 17 years for guarding Ukraine's territory

Instead of complying with international law and treating Vasyl Dmytriuk and Ivan Tereshchenko as prisoners of war, Russia concocted preposterous charges from 2018

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Serious allegations still not addressed over Russian Red Cross links with Putin war machine

Damning details of the role played by the Russian Red Cross and its head, Petr Savchuk, and of the vital role not played by the International Committee of the Red Cross clearly need adequate response

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Russia hits resistance in occupied Ukraine as Ukrainians refuse to give up their language

Despite aggressive propaganda, intimidation and forced ‘Russification’, Ukrainians in occupied territory are continuing to speak Ukrainian and demand education in Ukrainian for their children

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Fake ‘trial’ incriminates Russia in abduction and horrific torture of Ukrainian patriot Serhiy Kuris

The ‘trial’ is based on ‘confessions’ obtained after horrific torture which his captors threatened to repeat against his wife and small son

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean students’ grades lowered for not writing 'thank you letters' to Russian soldiers invading Ukraine

Russia has been forcing children and their teachers to produce letters to the soldiers committing war crimes since soon after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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Russian soldiers post video showing mock execution and other torment of Ukrainian prisoners of war

Russia has dropped any attempt to prevent its fighters from posting incriminating evidence. On the contrary, it appears to be deliberately flaunting appalling war crimes against captured Ukrainian defenders

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Marianna Checheliuk emaciated and frail, but back in Ukraine after two years of torture in Russian captivity

Marianna was just 22 when taken prisoner by the Russians and subjected to physical torture and cruel psychological torment

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Putin awards ‘hero of Russia’ status for war crimes against Ukrainian civilians in Yahidne and Mariupol

Chalym Chuldum-ool’s brigade was implicated in the imprisonment of 369 men, women and children in horrific conditions, using them as human shields, while Alexander Evtody is believed to have taken part in the bombing of civilians in Mariupol