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• War crimes

International Court of Justice rules that Russia must answer over Ukraine’s Genocide case

The UN court’s ruling also means that its binding Order that Russia immediately cease its bombing of Ukraine remains in force and could result in Russia being ordered to pay reparations

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Our evacuation train was shot,’ — memoirs of a film director from Irpin

After ten days of being under shelling, Olha Hdulia left Irpin with one backpack and two cats. Like thousands of city residents, she evacuated across the destroyed Romanivsky Bridge, which is now called the Bridge of Life.

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

Horrific sentences against Crimean Solidarity journalists for telling the world of Russia’s crimes in occupied Crimea

All of those implicated in this final attack on Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists should be named and placed under international sanctions

• Events

Bizarre 'motives' concocted to imprison renowned Memorial Head for opposing Russia's war against Ukraine

Russia is clearly trying to imprison 70-year-old Oleg Orlov, by claiming that his opposition to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine was based on ‘ideological enmity towards traditional spiritual-moral and patriotic values’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

UN Court finds Russia violated international law, yet ignores MH17 and Moscow's other crimes in occupied Ukraine

Some of the International Court of Justice’s arguments for rejecting other parts of Ukraine’s case against Russia are more difficult to fathom

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean convicted of ‘desecrating symbol of Russia’s military glory’ for protesting war against Ukraine

Oleksandr Tiurenko’s protest may have been specific, but it was a political protest against Russia’s war of aggression as, effectively, recognized by those who laid the charges

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Graves of killed civilians in every yard’ — Yurii Liapkalo, Mariupol

Yurii Liapkalo and his three-year-old son Hlib tried to survive almost two months under constant shelling without normal food, water, heat, or communication. They managed to evacuate in April 2022. They live in the Czech Republic now, but sometimes Hlib still looks for shelter when he hears a rumble in the sky.

• Penal institutions

Mobilization of convicts: Pros and cons

On January 19, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada registered draft law No. 10419, which allows amnesty for specific categories of prisoners. On condition that they go to the frontline.

• Freedom of expression

Prison for ‘likes’ in the social networks? How people are punished in Ukraine for justifying Russian aggression

Likes in social media, correspondence in messengers, and even phone conversations. All of this can lead to imprisonment if a costly forensic examination reveals that it justifies Russia's aggression against Ukraine. The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group analyzed 715 verdicts against people accused of such crimes.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sharply increases charges against Ukrainian sportsman tortured into ‘confessing’ to rail sabotage

The new charges would clearly be wildly disproportionate even without strong grounds for assuming that Kyrylo Barannyk ‘confessed’ because of torture and threats against his mother

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Vital ruling as court in Ukraine acknowledges right of believers to not take up arms even in wartime

Although Ukraine’s Constitution seems quite unequivocal, it is likely that this latest acquittal will be challenged on the spurious claim that the right to alternative service does not apply to mobilization

• War crimes

Russia tortures nine Ukrainians from Kherson for grotesque ‘international terrorism trial’

The ‘testimony’ in this absurd case is known to have been obtained through savage torture while the men were held incommunicado

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