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• 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

• War crimes

Kherson IT specialist abducted, tortured and sentenced in Russian-occupied Ukraine to 11 years for trying to get his family to safety

Ivan Kozlov was first held incommunicado, accused only of ‘opposing’ Russia’s war of aggression against his country. Then they came up with ‘spying’ charges almost certainly based on a ‘confession’ obtained through torture

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

Russia moves to confiscate possessions for condemning its war against Ukraine or for opposing occupation of Crimea

A new bill may for the moment be another method of terrorizing people into silence, however the inclusion of a norm already used to prosecute Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians for calling Crimea Ukraine is, at least, ominous

• War crimes

Russia had at least 28 torture chambers in Kharkiv oblast, imprisoning and torturing even schoolchildren

At least 13 civilians were effectively tortured to death while parts of Kharkiv oblast were under Russian occupation, with others still missing or known to be in Russian captivity

• War crimes

Openly faked ‘evidence in Russia’s ‘trial’ of tortured Ukrainian abducted from occupied Melitopol

Yaroslav Zhuk, a volunteer from occupied Melitopol, has been imprisoned since June 2022, with Russia bringing grotesque charges, based solely on ‘confessions’ obtained through torture

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

Moscow revives Stalin’s SMERSH to hunt down resistance in occupied Ukraine

The announced hunt for ‘saboteurs and spies’ is the latest form of terror against Ukrainians living in their own country and persecuted for as little as demonstrating the Ukrainian flag or saying ‘Glory to Ukraine!”

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

Russia bans greeting ‘Glory to Ukraine’, labelling it ‘Nazi’

Russia has formalized its grotesque attempt to justify prosecution for patriotic songs and greetings used to imprison or fine Ukrainians in occupied Crimea since 2022

• Publicistics

At a crossroads

We will manage to survive only if our resistance to this sinister Russian gloom remains nationwide. Each of us, tens of millions of Ukrainian citizens, wherever we are, must feel and understand that our victory is impossible without active and selfless personal participation in this struggle.

• Freedom of expression

‘Ukraine is not Russia’: Judge expresses opposing view over pensioner’s prison sentence for a ‘like’

Arkady Bushchenko, a Supreme Court judge, has issued an opposing view after the cassation court upheld a prison sentence against a 70-year-old pensioner for ‘liking’ a post about a Russian military pilot

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

Crimean Solidarity civic journalist Rustem Sheikhaliev denied urgently needed medical care in rat-infested Russian prison

Crimean Solidarity civic journalist Rustem Sheikhaliev may well be suffering from a life-threatening condition with the same notorious prison that helped torture political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov to death refusing to provide any treatment

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