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Mariupol teenagers in danger of forced mobilization to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia is compounding the war crime it is committing against Ukrainians through its mobilization of civilians by targeting 17-year-olds

• Human Rights Violations associated with EuroMaidan

Dramatic twist in trial of ex-Berkut officer over savage torture of Maidan activists

There was outrage back in 2019 when Andriy Khandrykin was acquitted, however it still took four years for the appeal court to reach a very different decision

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Your wife will be in a cell next door, and your son will be in a Russian penal colony’. In Kharkiv Region, Russian soldiers tortured a school principal

Vitalii Chernov was taken by the Russian troops to the police station in Kupiansk (Kharkiv Region) on 2 September (2022). He refused to cooperate with the Russians. On 8 September, during the counter-attack of the Ukrainian troops, 150 prisoners broke out of their cells and set fire to the hated prison. We publish the story of the school principal’s capture and subsequent rescue.

From killing, torture and plunder in Ukraine to teaching ‘patriotism’ in occupied Crimea and Russia

Russia is using men sent to fight its war against Ukraine to teach ‘patriotism’ and a wish to ‘defend’ the invading state on occupied Ukrainian territory

15-year sentence demanded for ‘butcher’ of Izolyatsia secret prison in Russian-occupied Donetsk

The trial of Denys Kulykovsky, or 'Palych' over his role at the Izolyatsia concentration camp in occupied Donetsk is a vital test for Ukraine and evidence of systematic use of torture in occupied territory since 2014

Václav Havel Prize to be spent on new teeth for those tortured by the Russians

The human rights activist will donate 20 thousand euros to help victims of Russian torture and support hospitals in the Kharkiv and Sumy Regions.

Nine Azov Regiment prisoners of war sentenced by fake Russian court to 25 years for defending Ukraine

Russia’s attempts to rewrite their most heinous crimes in Mariupol are resulting in this terrifying and deeply cynical conveyor belt of farcical ‘trials’

• Voices of war • Interview

‘If they gave me a machine gun, I would have killed them all...’

Olena Movchan is a resident of Shybene village in the Kyiv Region. The settlement was occupied from the first days of the full-scale invasion. The woman experienced many hardships. Olena says that she was forced to communicate with Russians. Mostly, these were Buryats and Kadyrovites [Chechens].

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Unending imprisonment in reprisal for young Crimean Tatar’s refusal to take Russian citizenship

25-year-old Leniye Umerova was seized on the border while trying to get to occupied Crimea to be with her father who was suffering from cancer

Russia passes breathtakingly lawless 18-year sentence against Ukrainian POW defending Mariupol

The only ‘evidence’ for insane changes that try to rewrite historical fact comes from Anton Baidrakov’s videoed ‘confession’ visibly obtained through torture

Ukraine launches war crimes probe after Russians use Ukrainian POWs as human shields

Russia has systematically used Ukrainians as human shields since its invasion of Crimea in 2014, with all such behaviour identified by the International Criminal Court as a war crime

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Russia frees criminals, sentences Crimean Tatar civic journalist to 11 years for moral integrity

The Russian FSB in occupied Crimea were open in telling Ernes Ametov that his horrific sentence was in retaliation for refusing to give false testimony against others

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