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Telling omissions in Russia's show trial claiming Ukraine’s use of 'chemical weapons of mass destruction'

Russia used Diliaver Kurshutov, and an elderly couple from occupied Melitopol, for bizarre claims involving chemical weapons supposedly used by the USA and other NATO countries

Russian prison identified where Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna and Yevhen Matvieiev died after being tortured

Victoria Roshchyna’s transfer to the prison in Perm region was tantamount to torture given her emaciation and the torture she had endured. 63-year-old Dniprorudne Mayor Yevhen Matvyeyev was effectively beaten to death

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Relentless medical torture of Crimean Tatar human rights defender in Russian prison

It is likely that some of Emir-Usein Kuku’s medical issues are because of the torture the FSB subjected him to, with Russia now resorting to medical torture, by denying him basic treatment

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Oksana Senedzhuk sent to Siberia for Russia’s 15-year sentence in reprisal for pro-Ukrainian stand

After years of interrogations and searches because of her pro-Ukrainian views, Russia came up with a ‘treason trial’ and imprisonment in a Siberian camp, thousands of kilometres from her family

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

Russia foists state-controlled 'MAX' app on occupied Ukraine with terrifying powers for surveillance

IT experts warn that the installation of MAX is equivalent to voluntarily passing your telephone into the total control of the security service

Russians accused of killing Donetsk oblast couple, seizing their child as human shield

While not the first time that Russia has used civilians as human shields, this war crime, if verified, is especially monstrous as the young girl was seized after probably witnessing her parents being killed

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

New trial ordered after glaring legal flaw exposed in Russia’s persecution of Crimean Tatar journalists & activists

Russian courts have demonstrated total contempt for international law and the right to a fair trial. The violation of Russian legislation in all of these politically motivated ‘trials’ is, at least, harder to flagrantly ignore

Young Ukrainian from occupied Donetsk oblast sentenced to 16.5 years for social media post

Russia is mass-producing surreal sentences based on cynical abuse of terrorism and ‘treason’ legislation

Russia sentences Ukrainian POW Ihor Kim twice to 24 and 27 years for defending Mariupol in 2022

The charges on both occasions were grotesque, with the alleged 'confession' almost certainly extracted through torture

Russian soldiers murder three pensioners in occupied Kherson oblast

64-year-old Olha Hladka, her husband Victor and their neighbour Victor Nadeiev were all shot and killed by Russian soldiers, the latest of many victims of Russian lawlessness and impunity

Russia’s highest court approves abduction and breathtakingly lawless 10.5-year sentence against Ukrainian patriot Iryna Horobtsova

Three Russian or Russian occupation 'courts' have seen no problem with passing a huge sentence for 'spying' despite the most compelling of 'alibis', namely that they had abducted Iryna Horobtsova 11 months earlier

Ukrainian journalists identify key perpetrators of horrific Russian war crimes in Yahidne

The Russians who used 369 residents of Yahidne, including many children, as human shields, holding them prisoner in an overcrowded school basement without enough air, tried to leave no traces of their identity. They failed

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