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• Voices of war   • Interview

Buried alive — memories of a writer from Borodianka

Valentyna Lysenko is a writer who has lived almost her entire life in Borodianka, in the Kyiv Region. Together with her family, she endured several air raids and miraculously survived. The woman recalls how people in the basement of a destroyed house nearby begged for help for five days, but the Russians forbade saving them.

• The right to life   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia refuses critically ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner vital heart medication

Russia is flouting a UN Committee against Torture order regarding its imprisonment of Amet Suleimanov and effective torture of the Crimean Tatar civic journalist imprisoned on politically motivated charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chilling déjà vu as Russia uses Crimean SMERSH to hunt down supporters of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Ukrainians are terrorised or tortured into reading out ‘apologies’ for demonstrating a pro-Ukrainian position or opposing Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

• War crimes

Russia claims defending Ukraine is ‘international terrorism’ and sentences abducted Kherson man to 12 years

"A crime was indeed committed in Kherson, but not by me, a citizen of Ukraine who was defending his country, but by the Russian soldiers who abducted and tortured me" - Pavlo Zaporozhets

• other

Imprisoned Russian historian of the Soviet Terror Yury Dmitriev recognized as New Righteous of the Nations

Russia’s attempt to mask its persecution of Yury Dmitriev and attack on Memorial behind scurrilous criminal charges has failed, as demonstrated by this honour and the award for an important film on ‘the Dmitriev Affair’

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘People were sitting without a piece of bread; everyone was afraid to get near here’

Vitalii Koretskyi is a resident of the Kopyliv village in the Kyiv Region. He says that he mainly saw Buryats in the village. His neighbor died when, out of desperation, he tried to drive out through a mined field, and his nephew and friend were found shot with their hands tied.

• War crimes

Russian invaders torture former Ukrainian defender to death in occupied Kherson oblast

Although it took the Russians a week to admit Ruslan Rusnak's death, it is likely that he died, as the result of torture, within hours of being seized and 'interrogated'

• Voices of war   • Interview

A Russian shot at me from a helicopter — Stepan Boiarchuk, Zahaltsi village

The tiles in Stepan’s yard are riddled with bullet marks left by the Russian helicopter pilot. His property burned to the ground. Fortunately, the dog managed to survive the terrible burns. The Russians tortured his neighbor, Hryhorii, and eventually killed him, as well as two peaceful women who simply ran down the street.

• War crimes

Russian invaders vandalize and plunder remembrance of Holodomor in occupied Ukraine

The invaders have destroyed more monuments to the victims of Holodomor, with this part of Russia’s aggressive attempts to eradicate all that is Ukrainian on parts of Ukraine presently under its occupation

• War crimes

Show trial begins in Russia of 25-year-old Iryna Navalna seized in Mariupol and tortured because of her name

The ‘irrefutable proof’ against the young woman includes a ‘confession’ almost certainly extracted through torture, her Ukrainian POW stepfather and the fact that she has the same surname as one of the Kremlin’s main political prisoners

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

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar to over ten years on ‘terrorism’ charges for religious discussion in 2015

All of those 'judges' implicated in the trial and sentences against Ametkhan Abdulvapov were aware that he had committed now crime and should be held to account

• War crimes

First huge sentence in Russia’s cynical ‘international terrorism trials’ of Ukrainians abducted from illegally occupied Ukraine

It is hard to imagine anything more lawless than invading a country and torturing Ukrainian civilians into ‘admitting’ to acts of ‘international terrorism’

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