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

Crimean Tatar journalist and activists face huge sentences in Russia’s retaliation for humiliating attack by Ukraine

How do you take ‘terrorism’ charges seriously when the FSB sat on the illicitly taped conversation about prayer which allegedly proves the charges for seven years?

• Events

Russia uses punitive psychiatry to indefinitely imprison critic of its war against Ukraine

A Russian court has ruled that Viktoria Petrova was not in a fit state when she posted criticism of Russia's aggression against Ukraine and Putin's 'genocide of the Ukrainian people'

• Publicistics

EU Unity and Defending Freedom in Ukraine

Europe’s problem, aside from limp defenses, is reflected in its institutionalized and bureaucratized universalism, which obscures the principles of liberty under a thick blanket of rational-legal proceduralism.

• War crimes

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.

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

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

• Events

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.

• War crimes

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