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Russian court passes huge sentences against Melitopol mother of two and other Ukrainians on evidently fictitious terrorism charges

Yanina Akulova, Dmytro Sergieiev and Anton Zhukovsky were all abducted from occupied Melitopol, with their videoed 'confessions' obtained long before Russia even admitted to holding them prisoner

The death penalty in Russia. How would it threaten Ukrainians?

Russia aims to execute “terrorists,” but this term is very vague.

88-year-old Ukrainian fled occupied Donbas on foot rather than accept Russian citizenship

Russia is continuing to aggressively foist its citizenship on Ukrainians on occupied territory, with such forced passportization prompting one elderly Ukrainian to an act of great courage

Viktor Ivchuk saved hundreds of lives in occupied Mariupol for which Russia has held him prisoner for over two years

Russia is holding hundreds of Ukrainian medics prisoner, and has even sentenced one to 28 years on fake charges based solely on a ‘confession’ almost certainly extracted through torture

Putin’s ‘heroes’: from inciting kids to suicide to killing Ukrainians and teaching ‘patriotism’ in Russian schools

Russia presumably needs more prison space for political prisoners from occupied parts of Ukraine, with almost all non-political prisoners pushed to opt for killing Ukrainians rather than Russian detention

• 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.

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

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