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Arm Ukraine! An Open Letter From Human Rights Defenders To The Governments And Civil Societies Of Free And Democratic Nations

Vienna, 10 December 2023 — Numerous human rights activists, some long active in the former Soviet Union, have signed an open letter urging free and democratic nations to provide Ukraine with military assistance it needs to resist Russian aggression.

Finland refuses to extradite Russian neo-Nazi Rusich fighter to Ukraine to face war crimes trial

The arguments can certainly not be dismissed, however such rulings make it impossible for Ukraine to bring neo-Nazi mercenaries like Yan Petrovsky to justice for their direct role in Russia’s full-scale war of aggression

Fears for the life of Alexei Gorinov, serving 7-year sentence for telling the truth about Russia’s war against Ukraine

Alexei Gorinov has been savagely punished for condemning Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, yet the authorities have now concocted new, absurd, charges of ‘justifying terrorism’

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Two enemy shells destroyed my house’

Maiia Mykytenko lived in the Kyiv Region in the village of Borodianka with her husband and two daughters. During enemy bombing, she and her neighbors hid in the basement. In the end, the family evacuated, and when Maiia returned, she found the apartment destroyed. Now, the family lives in a small room in a modular town.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Playing Russian roulette’ — a village head in the Kherson region captured by the occupiers

In the first weeks of the full-scale invasion, occupiers’ checkpoints were set up around the village of Osokorivka, and the Russian military themselves began to rob and intimidate the local population, — village head Serhii Kunets, who himself spent three weeks in a torture chamber, speaks about occupation.

Russia fakes trials and life sentences against Ukrainian POWs to rewrite the facts about its war crimes and destruction of Mariupol

These trials are particularly dangerous as Russia is openly using torture and unrecognized courts to deny Ukrainian defenders their rights as prisoners of war

Foiled by Finland, Russia forces asylum seekers to fight its war against Ukraine

Russia’s methods of finding fighters for its war of aggression against Ukraine are brutally cynical and in flagrant violation even of its own legislation, let alone international law

Ukrainian political prisoner hospitalized after 9 years of Russian brutal torment

66-year-old Viktor Shur has served nine of the twelve year sentence that Russia imposed on grotesque ‘spying charges’ over a photo of cows grazing at a disused aerodrome

‘War is Death’: a Digest of Russian Protests

At least 17 murderers were pardoned in the Russian Federation for participating in the war. Among them, for example, Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, convicted of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. Meanwhile, the artist Sasha Skochylenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for anti-war price tags.

Russia is holding around four thousand Ukrainian civilians prisoner, torturing most of them

Both Ukrainian human rights groups and UN monitors have found that Russia is torturing around 90% of all Ukrainians held prisoner

Illegal Russian occupation ‘court’ sentences Ukrainian veteran to 13 years on grotesque ‘spying’ charges

54-year-old Oleksandr Zarivny was held for almost ten months before his family even learned of his whereabouts.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

”I’m no criminal’. Ukrainian artist sentenced to 15 years for protesting Russia's war against Ukraine refuses to wear prison uniform

“Russian law gives shorter sentences even for murder, and I spoke out against murder.” - Bohdan Ziza

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