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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Armed raid and surreal charges in Russian attempt to silence renowned Crimean Tatar journalist and Crimean Solidarity coordinator Lutfiye Zutfiyeva

Russia dredged up Facebook posts from 2021-22 and grotesque charges to justify its latest attack and armed raid against Lutfiye Zudiyeva who tirelessly speaks out in defence of victims of repression in occupied Crimea

• War crimes

Russia abducts, tortures and ‘sentences’ disabled Ukrainian to 16 years on legally absurd charges

Both Mykola Petrovsky and Serhiy Kotov were seized by the Russian invaders back in March 2022, held incommunicado and tortured for many months before Russia came up with insane ‘spying’ charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia's armed terror against independent Crimean Tatar Muslim community hits resistance

Even occupation ‘courts’ found difficulty convicting Imams, who had led worship in their communities for decades, of ‘unlawful missionary activities’

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

Russia imports its own citizens, drives out Crimean Tatars, other Ukrainians to claim its 'right' to Crimea

10 years on, Russia is using demography as well as indoctrination to rewrite the facts about its invasion of Crimea, with the same methods used on all illegally occupied Ukrainian territory

• War crimes

Ukraine launches investigation into third Russian execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war in a week

As with the killing of over 50 prisoners of war at Olenivka in July 2022, it seems likely that such videos and news of the horrific treachery at Avdiivka are quite deliberately made public

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The neighbor was still alive and called his granddaughter to get him out from under the rubble,’ — a resident of Borodianka

During the bombing of Borodianka, Mykhailo Kokidko and his son received shell shock. The family barely had time to escape the destroyed burning house. After the evacuation, the man ended up under occupation in the neighboring village of Zahaltsi.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Your families will suffer too: No limits to Russia’s persecution of Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians

Russia is using fake ‘terrorism’ and ‘sabotage’ charges to not only imprison political prisoners for decades, but to punish their entire families

• War crimes

Russians kill unarmed and wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war near Avdiivka

It is unclear whether the Russians hope that the two separate videos from near Avdiivka and Vesele will demoralize Ukraine’s defenders or whether they simply like boasting of their barbaric war crimes

• War crimes

Insane sentence and 18 months of agonizing silence after Russia abducts two friends for opposing its war against Ukraine

Yevhen Pryshliak and his friend, Artem Baranov, a 32-year-old lawyer, were seized by the Russians in occupied Nova Kakhovka on 12 August 2022, with Russia refusing to even say where they are held

• War crimes   • Research

Nothing is sacred

The Russian occupiers destroyed hundreds of religious buildings and kidnapped, tortured, killed, and wounded dozens of priests... This was discussed at a press conference on the Russian occupier’s war crimes against Ukrainian religious communities and clergy.

• War crimes

Ukrainian priest abducted and tortured to death in Russian-occupied Kherson oblast

Father Stepan Podolchak from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine had refused to betray his oath and his congregation by transferring affiliation to the Moscow patriarchate

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Renowned Crimean Tatar lawyer detained and prosecuted for informing of illegal conscription into Russian army

This is the latest attack on a human rights lawyer whose tireless defence of political prisoners in occupied Crimea has made him a target for the occupation regime and renowned abroad.