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‘Russia has systematically committed enforced disappearances in the same scenario’. T4P Initiative presents new 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

Former Crimean Tatar political prisoner slams call from freed Russian dissidents to ease sanctions against Russia

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

• War crimes

Ukrainian woman sentenced to 15 years with Russia claiming that support for Ukraine is ‘state treason’

The aim of these horrific sentences is presumably to terrorize Ukrainians on occupied territory and deter them from actively supporting Ukrainian defenders

• War crimes

Russia sentences abducted Ukrainian Orthodox priest to 14 years for 'spying for Ukraine'

Father Kostiantyn (Maksymov) was held incommunicado for 10 months, and Russia is now trying to conceal his religious status which was, almost certainly, the reason for his abduction

• Events

Ten years of savage torture and isolation in Russian captivity for being Ukrainian

The Kremlin's 'oldest' Ukrainian political prisoner, Valentin Vyhivsky, has been held in near total isolation for almost 10 years, far more than his grandfather, a political prisoner imprisoned on equally grotesque charges during Stalin's regime

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s final brutality against imprisoned Ukrainian civic journalist Iryna Danilovych

There are no limits, in life or death, to Russia's brutality against those like Iryna Danilovych who refuse to be silenced

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian sentenced to 18 years for supposed ‘gas pipe sabotage’ in Russian-occupied Crimea

Among the many reasons for concern about this ‘conviction’ is the fact that Serhiy Yerzhov was held incommunicado for a month before being formally detained, with this period used to extract a ‘confession’

• War crimes

Ukrainian POW on ‘trial’ for defending Ukraine dies in Russian captivity

With typical brutality, Russia has provided no formal explanation for how the 55-year-old Ukrainian defender and recognized political prisoner died while in Russian captivity

• War crimes

Three men abducted from Kherson oblast, tortured and ‘sentenced’ twice for Russian propaganda

Russia’s hostage-taking and torture of civilians from occupied territory makes it terrifyingly easy to pass secretive ‘sentences’, then duplicate and/or report them when politically convenient

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘He raised his machine gun and started shooting at’

Mykhailo Tepliuk from Bohdanivka (a village in Kyiv Region) was walking home when a Russian soldier sitting on a tank started shooting at him. The first two bul-lets pierced his knee, while the third tore off his hat and grazed his temple. Later the Russians came to his house looking for weapons, even searching the first floor.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia totally destroys Chersonese UNESCO site in grotesque attempt to justify Crimean occupation

It may be hard to imagine one of the invaders of England creating a ‘New Stonehenge’, aimed at staking their ‘historical right to the territory’, but that is what Russia is doing with Chersonese in occupied Crimea

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Brutal Russian reprisals against prominent lawyer defending Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

The offensive against Alexei Ladin is overtly aimed at punishing independent lawyers defending the ever-mounting number of victims of Russian terror on occupied territory, and at deterring others from demonstrating such courage