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Russia digs up the graves of its victims in Luhansk oblast to claim ‘evidence of Ukrainian aggression’

In at least one propaganda video, separate graves which were seen when dug to be separately buried and marked, are shown being exhumed without any dignity as though they’d been flung into the ground.

Melitopol mother of two sentenced to 14 years for donations to help Ukraine

The Russian invaders have not only imprisoned Maryna Meshkova for seeking to help the defenders of her country, but have shattered the lives of her two children

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia extracts surreal ‘confession’ a year after abducting 59-year-old Maryna Kovalenko

No attempt to make the charges against Maryna Kovalenko even remotely plausible and it is possible that she was targeted because her son is serving in Ukraine's Armed Forces

Russian military court upholds torture and trashes law to call defence of Ukraine ‘terrorism’

The 'court' took less than a day to rubberstamp 16-21-year sentences on insane charges against men seized while serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces Aidar Battalion

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean sentenced to 5.5 years for social media comments in support of Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Oleksandr Maliarenko is the latest in a mounting number of Ukrainians imprisoned either for writing the truth about Russia's war of aggression or for expressing support for the defenders of their own country

Abducted Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska went on hunger strike in notorious Russian prison

Anastasia Hlukhovska is held incommunicado in the same Siberian remand prison where fellow journalist Victoria Roshchyna and Dniprorudne Mayor Yevhen Matvieiev died after being subjected to torture

Russians cause abducted Melitopol woman’s death, hold her husband incommunicado for 3 years

Russia has not admitted to holding Oleh Plachkov, although he was seized by the Russians together with his wife, Tetiana Plachkova in September 2023 and was not released after her death in captivity

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Three children orphaned for Russia’s new Crimean ‘treason trial’ and huge sentence

In its persecution of Svitlana Kolomiyets, Russia is again shattering children’s lives for lawless 'trials' of Ukrainian citizens from occupied territory on supposed ‘spying’ or ‘treason’ charges.

Russia uses Gestapo-like torture for ‘international terrorism’ trial and massive sentences over death of a Ukrainian traitor

Volodymyr Teteriev's torturers boasted that the only difference between them and the Gestapo was in the name. The savage torture they applied was used to sentence Teteriev to life and four other Ukrainians to 17 and 18 years

Ukrainian sentenced to 16 years for resisting Russian occupation gets new sentence for ‘extremist’ tattoo

Maksym Vorobiov and Maksym Timofieiev received monstrously long sentences over rail partisan acts (which they may or may not have taken part in )

Tortured but unbroken: Four Ukrainians expose Russian fabrication of trial over death of a traitor

As well as a prosecutor and 'judge' implicated in multiple sentences against political prisoners, Russia has used 'lawyers' willing to collaborate with the 'investigators' and ignore evident use of torture

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Abducted IT specialist found alive in occupation ‘court’ after 13 months of enforced disappearance and Russian lies

Serhiy Hrishchenkov was probably targeted for his pro-Ukrainian position and held in isolation for 13 months while the Russian FSB used torture, threats against his family or similar to extract ‘a confession’

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