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Ukrainian abducted, tortured and sentenced in Russia to 14 years on grotesque ‘international terrorism’ charges

Yaroslav Zhuk was subjected to relentless torture, including electric currents attached to genitals, and savage beatings to force out a ‘confession’ to absurd charges

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

Emir-Usein Kuku and Russia’s savage persecution of Crimean Tatar human rights defenders

It was no accident that Russia’s violent arrests in February 2016 and terrorisation of whole families led to the emergence of the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement in occupied Crimea

• Voices of war • Interview

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian hostages are in the Russian Federation

How we are freeing Ukrainians from Russian captivity. Interview with Artur Dobroserdov, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine's authorized representative concerning persons missing under special circumstances.

Russia sentences 15-year-old schoolboy to 5 years for criticizing Putin regime and war against Ukraine

Arseny Turbin had merely posted leaflets critical of Vladimir Putin and shown interest, no more, in the Free Russia Legion

Tortured Ukrainian hostage sentenced to life for Russia’s killings of ‘inconvenient’ Donbas militants

Oleksandr Pohorielov and three other Ukrainians were illegally imprisoned in occupied Donbas and almost certainly tortured for videoed ‘confessions’ to killings which Russia was behind

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

‘No need for evidence’ in Russia’s terror trial of young Crimean Tatar woman for not denouncing another Ukrainian

The 'trial' without any crime is coming to an end of 25-year-old Emine Zekeryaeva, with the defence blocked from proving that the FSB doctored the evidence

Russia sentences abducted Melitopol woman to 13 years calling information about its invasion of Ukraine ‘spying’

Yulia Koveshnikova has effectively been held incommunicado since her abduction in April 2023, with Russia just as intent on hiding her supposed ‘trial’

Ukraine identifies Russian soldiers suspected of gunning down unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war

There is also evidence that such appalling violations of international law have been committed under orders from military command

Horrific beheading of Ukrainian prisoner of war is part of Russia’s deliberate policy in war against Ukraine

The Russian invaders executed both Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians from February 2022, but the scale and openness about such atrocities against POWs have risen dramatically

Ukrainian sentenced to 12 years in Russia for Ukraine's national anthem, balloons and anti-war speech

Not only was Krystyna Liubashenko, the mother of two small daughters, charged with ‘military fakes’ and ‘terrorism’ for peaceful protest, but she was probably tricked into coming to Moscow

Putin youth movement teaches kids in occupied Mariupol to hate Ukraine and want to kill for Russia

Russia has now added the Putin-initiated ‘Movement of the First’ to its arsenal of youth organizations aimed at indoctrination and militarization of Ukrainian children in occupied Mariupol

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s Supreme Court upholds 11-year-sentence against Crimean Tatar religious scholar for ‘dissident’ views

Russia’s highest-ranking ‘judges’ are thus making themselves complicit in the persecution of Vadym Bektemirov for his views and civic activism in defence of political prisoners

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