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• 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

• 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

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