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• 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

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

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

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

• Army

Law on mobilization: The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group analysis

We explain whether going to the military registration and enlistment office (TTsK) is necessary and how it will issue call-up papers and register cars. And also, why the new law does not actually solve our problems.

Russia calls donations to Ukrainian Army ‘financing terrorism’ as it escalates repression in occupied Ukraine

Russia is stepping up prosecutions for social media posts, however old, and is openly trying to terrorize Ukrainians by demonstrating that even their bank accounts are under surveillance

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

Ukrainian becomes first Jehovah’s Witness to face escalated persecution in Russian prison

Russia has been persecuting Ukrainian believers since soon after its appalling ban of a world faith, however this is the first time that any Jehovah’s Witness has faced such an escalation in sentence

Russia holds abducted Melitopol journalist and her husband incommunicado for over a year

Iryna and Oleksandr Levchenko had remained in Melitopol, hoping for its liberation and assuming they were not in danger. They proved tragically wrong

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia drops all pretence in latest conveyor belt trial of six Crimean Tatar political prisoners

The FSB are clearly certain of their full impunity and make no effort to even ensure that the 'testimony' of its 'secret witnesses' match the photos allegedly enabling identification of the defendants

Russia finally admits to holding journalist Victoria Roshchyna almost a year after abducting her from occupied Ukraine

Russia has not provided any information about where the young journalist is being held and why, and is blocking any contact with her

Russia sentences four Ukrainian POWs to life imprisonment for defending Mariupol

Russia is using torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war in its attempt to rewrite the facts about its invasion of Mariupol and the crimes it committed

Carnage as Russia bombs crowded DIY store, targets rescuers and Ukrainian publisher in Kharkiv

Russia had killed at least 35 civilians from the beginning of its mass offensive on Kharkiv to 24 May. The death toll from its missile strikes on shoppers at a DIY hypermarket already stands at 16, with that number likely to rise

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