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

Russia begins mass ‘treason trial’ of tortured sportsman Kyrylo Barannyk and other Crimean Ukrainians

Eight men and women are to be ‘tried’ on charges which are very likely, in all cases, to be based on the same ‘confessions’ extracted through torture that Kyrylo Barannyk has described in detail

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Events

Russia, Jehovah’s Witnesses banned since 20 April 2017

World Headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses (20.04.2024) – April 20th marks the seventh anniversary of Russia’s nationwide ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses, which has led to hundreds of peaceful believers jailed and some brutally tortured.

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

Russia charges Crimean who refused to fight against Ukraine with ‘treason’

Denys Narolsky could face a life sentence for refusing to take up arms against his own country and for trying to get to mainland Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Solidarity journalist convicted of ‘abusing freedom of media’ in posts about Crimean Tatar political prisoners

These administrative prosecutions are clearly, and ominously, aimed at intimidating courageous journalist and human rights defender Lutfiye Zudiyeva

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Words cannot express what we experienced,’ — a resident of the village of Zahaltsi

Olena Shevchenko lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. Together with her grandchildren, the woman endured several weeks under endless shelling. People were hiding in the basement, and everything outside was on fire.

• War crimes

Horrific sentences against Ukrainians accused of ‘international terrorism’ for opposing Russian occupation

Little is known about Vitaly Rastorhuev and Volodymyr Kryvtsun except that they were abducted from Berdiansk with one of the men tortured into providing a ‘confession’ to match the predetermined charge

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

Russian occupation ‘court’ convicts Jehovah’s Witness of ‘extremism’ for reading excerpts from the Bible

The sentence was, thankfully, lower than that demanded by the ‘prosecutor’ against Maksym Zinchenko for peacefully practising his faith

• War crimes

Ukrainian children brainwashed in Russia’s ‘Youth Army’ into wanting to fight against Ukraine

Russia is not necessarily succeeding, but the aim is chilling - to destroy the children's Ukrainian identity and get them to want to 'defend' those invading their country

• other   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar political prisoner diagnosed with tuberculosis, other life-threatening conditions contracted in Russian captivity

Tofik Abdulgaziev is no longer in a critical care ward, however he is suffering many life-threatening conditions, with these effectively part of Russia’s reprisals for his human rights activism

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Solo ‘trials’ after Russia stages mass arrests claiming Ukrainian attack on Crimean occupation officials

There are only videoed ‘confessions’ almost certainly extracted through torture to prove the claims that six (or seven) men were planning ‘terrorist attacks’

• War crimes

Russian invaders turn Kherson oblast culture centre into torture chamber for ‘unreliable’ Ukrainians

At least five Ukrainian civilians are known to be held and almost certainly tortured at Odradivka, with the Russians having tortured at least two of their victims, including a Ukrainian Orthodox priest to death over recent months

• War crimes

Russia incriminates itself through ‘trial’ of Ukrainian abducted 7 years ago in occupied Donbas

The secrecy this time is not only because the charges are absurd, but to hide the inconvenient detail that Oleksandr Korol has been held hostage since 2017

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