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Ukraine’s powerlifting champion sentenced in Russia to 19 years for partisan acts in defence of her home

“I decided to fight against Russia’s military aggression. Perhaps my words are worsening my position, but, your honour, my conscience is more important for me.” From Yulia Lemeshchenko’s final address to the Russian court before its horrific sentence.

Medic, Engineer, High School Students—Ukrainian Civilians behind Russian Bars

The occupiers convicted an ambulance worker in the Luhansk region for “espionage”, and two schoolchildren in the Donetsk region were detained for “sabotage”. Meanwhile, the Southern District Court is “setting records”.

Berdiansk man sentenced to 12 years after 18 months in Russian torture prisons

Volodymyr Yatsun was abducted twice, although the stunt claiming to show his 'arrest' was probably staged long after the 50-year-old from occupied Berdiansk (Zaporizhzhia oblast) had been seized by the Russians

“‘Insane nonsense to hand Donbas over to Russia’. Sloviansk residents knew occupation and don’t want it again

Residents of government-controlled Donbas have no wish to 'be voluntarily handed over' to Russia and fear the Russian soldiers who "gun down civilians"

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB come for Crimean Tatar father and son in night terror raid

Russia is increasingly targeting two or more members of the same family for its abductions and politically motivated 'trials', with it very likely that 65-year-old Seithalil and his son, Ruslan, are facing torture to extract fake 'confessions'

Ukrainian POW subjected to two fake trials and massive sentences in revenge for defending Mariupol

Ivan Melnykovych is the latest of a huge number of Ukrainian defenders to be sentenced on surreal 'terrorism' charges after Russia first staged a quite different show trial

Russians use child and her parents as human shields in their attack on Pokrovsk

Russia has been using civilians as human shields since 2014, with its systematic and murderous attacks increasingly condemned, not only as war crimes but as crimes against humanity

• Penal institutions

The Court of Appeal frees Viktor Sleptsov: a decision that should have been made immediately

The Vinnytsia Oblast Court of Appeal, presided over by Judge Serhiy Medvetskyi, ruled to release Viktor Sleptsov—a 68-year-old lifer with stage IV cancer.

Russia sentences Melitopol man to 14 years for 2017 demonstrations and a social media comment

The charges against 24-year-old Denys Shepotko, under Russian legislation concerning events over which Russia had no jurisdiction, are a legal absurdity.

Russian FSB gets carte blanche to torture and fabricate sabotage charges against 14-year-olds

The reduction in age of criminal liability is chilling given the very suspicious circumstances around the killing by Russia of at four 16-year-old lads from occupied Berdiansk and Melitopol

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Dangerously ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner ‘not allowed’ life-saving medication

Fears that Russia’s withdrawal from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture would remove any last restraints were probably justified judging by its life-threatening medical torture of Amet Suleimanov

• Publicistics

Civic Responsibility as the Only Way to Overcome Total Unfreedom

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yuly Daniel, a distinguished translator, poet, prose writer, defendant in the most high-profile political trial of the 1960s, and political prisoner.

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