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Russia’s Investigative Committee tortures Ukrainians for fabricated ‘trials’, and now demands the death penalty

Aleksandr Bastrykin and Russia’s Investigative Committee have been using torture to fabricate preposterous charges against Ukrainians since 2014, making his call for Putin to reinstate the death penalty chilling

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ICC arrest warrants deal fatal blow to demand that Ukraine accepts Russian occupation 'in exchange for peace'

The International Criminal Court has now issued six arrest warrants of high-ranking Russians, including Vladimir Putin and the top men waging Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

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

Nariman Dzhelyal, tortured Donbas hostages and Berdiansk priests freed, others remain in Russian captivity and in danger

The release of the Crimean Tatar leader, Donbas hostages and imprisoned priests show that publicity and pressure can help, and underscores how much torment other hostages are enduring

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Victory for Ukraine as ECHR delivers damning judgement against Russia over systematic violations in occupied Crimea

Russia is typically trying to deny the Court’s jurisdiction after it suffered a huge defeat in the first of Ukraine’s inter-state cases against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights

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Russia uses Sheremetyevo Airport ‘filtration’ to keep out Ukrainians and steal their homes in occupied Ukraine

Russia is imposing particularly restrictive measures against Ukrainians trying to reach their own homes in occupied Ukraine in order to appropriate their land

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Ukrainian abducted, tortured and sentenced in Russia to 14 years on grotesque ‘international terrorism’ charges

Yaroslav Zhuk was subjected to relentless torture, including electric currents attached to genitals, and savage beatings to force out a ‘confession’ to absurd charges

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

Emir-Usein Kuku and Russia’s savage persecution of Crimean Tatar human rights defenders

It was no accident that Russia’s violent arrests in February 2016 and terrorisation of whole families led to the emergence of the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement in occupied Crimea

• Voices of war   • Interview

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian hostages are in the Russian Federation

How we are freeing Ukrainians from Russian captivity. Interview with Artur Dobroserdov, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine's authorized representative concerning persons missing under special circumstances.

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Russia sentences 15-year-old schoolboy to 5 years for criticizing Putin regime and war against Ukraine

Arseny Turbin had merely posted leaflets critical of Vladimir Putin and shown interest, no more, in the Free Russia Legion

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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

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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’