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ICC issues arrest warrants over Russia’s bombing of Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure as war crimes and a crime against humanity

The International Criminal Court’ has issued two more arrest warrants for the moment over Moscow’s almost unconcealed attempt to cause maximum suffering to Ukraine’s civilian population

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

Crimean Solidarity journalist and activists arrested, their families terrorized, in new Russian offensive against Crimean Tatars

Russia’s FSB have carried out more armed dawn raids, destroying the lives of ten Crimean Tatar families for ‘good statistics’ and bonuses

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ominous denials a month after Crimean Tatar father abducted by Russian FSB

It is over 5 weeks since the Russian FSB openly seized the 28-year-old, who had recently become a father, and nothing is known of his whereabouts, or why he was targeted

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Reshat Ametov and 10 years of Russia’s systematic torture, abductions and killings of civilians for supporting Ukraine

Russia’s savage torture and murder of Crimean Tatar Hero of Ukraine Reshat Ametov was just the beginning, with the number of civilian hostages now huge, and the use of torture widespread and systematic

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Russia passes huge conveyor belt sentences against Ukrainians tortured for propaganda videos

Russia is using other ‘courts’ to pass secret ‘spying’ sentences against Ukrainian civilians abducted, tortured and illegally taken from Ukrainian territory

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Freedom to Oleg Orlov!

Statement by the International MemorialAssociation

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Russia-Ukraine war: what does filtration mean?

Filtration is a violent, unregulated screening of the personal data of detained people, their social contacts, views and attitudes towards the occupying state, their safety for the authorities or services of the occupying state, as well as their willingness and consent to cooperate with the authorities or services of the occupying state.

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Russia's youngest Ukrainian political prisoner convicted of ‘justifying terrorism’ in social media posts written by Russia’s FSB

Illya Hibeskul was imprisoned for almost a year after the FSB decided to concoct charges against the young Ukrainian who had refused Russian citizenship

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18-year-old Russian imprisoned for Shevchenko poem on anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russia really has descended into its repressive past, with Darya Kozyreva imprisoned and facing insane criminal charges for posting lines from Taras Shevchenko’s Testament

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean blogger sentenced to 2.5 years for 'showing disrespect for Russia's military glory'

Yevhen Shved was abducted a full month before he was officially charged, and almost certainly tortured and / or threatened with a huge sentence on ‘danger to state security’ charges to obtain his videoed 'repentance'

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Russia’s killings of Ukrainian prisoners of war are likely state-approved war crimes

The number of such killings has increased dramatically since November, with such undoubted war crimes impossible without the support of Russia’s military echelons

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Oleg Orlov, renowned human rights defender and Memorial Co-Chair, sentenced to 2.5 years for condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine

The world-renowned human rights defender noted in his final address that all recent developments had only confirmed his stark assessment of Russia’s descent into fascist totalitarianism