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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

25-year-old Crimean Tatar mother ‘on trial’ for failing to report a 2016 social media conversation to Russia’s FSB

Putin’s Russia has long worked to reinstate the Soviet system of denunciations, with the FSB using an ‘elastic’ norm about failure to denounce as a weapon of repression in occupied Crimea

Abducted Ukrainians tortured into claiming Ukraine carried out Russia’s attack on Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Oleh Morochkovsky, sentenced to 11 years for ‘spying’, was one of two Ukrainians tortured into claiming that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that had attacked the largest nuclear power station in Europe

• Voices of war • Interview

‘We prayed aloud all the way,’ says deacon Mykola Serdiuk, describing how his family left their occupied village.

At the beginning of the war, Mykola Serdiuk was with his family in the occupied vil-lage of Havrylivka near Hostomel (Kyiv Region). To leave, they had to sneak through Russian checkpoints at their own risk. They saw columns of Russian tanks, smashed cars in ditches, but with God's help and prayer they made it to safety.

Russia charges abducted Ukrainian Orthodox priest with ‘spying’ for Ukraine

It seems likely that Father Kostiantyn (Maksymov) from occupied Tokmak was forcibly ‘disappeared’ in May 2023 for opposing attempts to forcibly merge the Berdiansk Diocese into the Russian Orthodox Church

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

Crimean occupation ‘court’ orders retrial of four Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced for studying the Bible

It is cheering that Taras Kuzio, Serhiy Liulin and Petro Zhiltsov have been released, however there should have been an acquittal, with any proper ‘court’ throwing out the preposterous charges

Relentless torment of 71-year-old Memorial Co-Chair Oleg Orlov, imprisoned for condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia is not content to imprison the world-renowned human rights defender, but is also placing his life and health in danger

Russia stages secret ‘spying trial’ two years after forcibly disappearing Ukrainian patriot Iryna Horobtsova

Russia has held the IT specialist from Kherson in near total isolation for almost two years, without any formal status or charges

The youngest victim of Russia’s Bucha atrocities was less than two years old

It is two years since Ukraine’s Armed Forces liberated Bucha with the world learning of the atrocities that the Russians had committed there, and Putin ‘honouring’ the chief suspects of such war crimes

• The right to life • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia admits to passing death sentence against imprisoned Crimean Tatar civic journalist Amet Suleimanov

Russian doctors have acknowledged that the Crimean Solidarity civic journalist and political prisoner is gravely ill, but say he will be released only “twenty minutes before dying”

Ukrainians banned from their homes as ‘undesirable elements’ by Russian invader

The aggressor state is forcing Ukrainians to go through gruelling interrogations and ‘filtration’ checks at Sheremetyevo airport, with many banned from their Ukrainian homeland for up to 10 years

No more tolerance to Putin’s regime!

An appeal from scholars of the world.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘One brother perished, the second was barely saved’ — the story of a resident of Zahaltsi

Svitlana Zamitailo lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. The woman's family lost everything they had: their house and possessions. But the worst thing is that the war took the life of her brother, who was transporting people and humanitarian aid.

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