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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

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Don’t scare my children, take the assault rifle away’

Serhii Bobko, a resident of the occupied village of Bohdanivka, hid his daughters in the basement when a Russian soldier came to the house. Fortunately, no one was hurt that day. Serhii and his family soon left the village, and when he returned he found his house damaged and looted.

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

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

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